Knee pain, 2 weeks out from Strongman Contest

Knee felt fine until 11/21

11/21 Training session had was a build up to a max 60 second effort on log at 90% of contest weight, and 1 50 ft duck walk w/ 3 power stairs. This was first time doing duck walk as recently changed event.

After felt general knee soreness but nothing out of the usual for post moving event training. On wake up of next day had restricted ROM. As of this moment I can do a half ROM air squat pain free, at the 1/4 squat point I get a pretty sharp pain show up in the knee. Pain symptoms show just above the knee cap, feels relatively deep. No pain symptoms when knee is not flexed, able to flex knee through full ROM with 2/10 discomfort when not load bearing, when load bearing it is like a 5/10 pain.

Any advice on managing training? I was on pace to have last heavy trainings on 11/24-25 and light event training on 11/30 prior to taper.

For context events training for are

Log for reps
Yoke
Duck walk w/Power Stairs
Stone to Shoulder
Mas wrestling

Sorry to hear about this. Unfortunately this sort of thing can happen, particularly when you’re suddenly loading a completely novel movement that you’ve never been exposed to before.

Our standard management principles apply here as a starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdwj5ORPmX0
Getting yourself moving to restore ROM should be the first priority here.

Sometimes these sorts of tweaks resolve rapidly, sometimes they don’t – unfortunately impossible to predict what will happen for you here or how this will play out for your competition. Good luck!