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Well a contusion is pretty serious and when your knee took all the impact more beef might have helped some but I am willing to bet you would have still had an injury, just maybe not a contusion. Weight training will help build up the area around the knee so that you have fewer problems with torn cartilage and ligaments. However weight and bulk can also add stress especially in later years. Would the additional weight and strength made it harder for your opponent to try and throw you-maybe? One of the things that I have seen is that getting thrown hurts a lot more if you don’t go with it and have something like what you had happen. I one time when working with a student resisted and hung back for some stupid, unknown reason but still got thrown and landed on my shoulder with it taking all the impact and dislocated it. I have never had that happen before in over forty years of training and generally it is better to just go with it and take the impact the best way possible which is to try and fall correctly and employ those principals that falling emphasizes like spreading out the impact over fleshy, muscle covered areas so that you don’t have happen what happened to you or me. While bulk and muscle might make you a little more durable I don’t think it would entirely prevent things like this from happening. I can tell you that I have never resisted and hung back like I did that one time and by going with the throw you can better control how you land and minimize the damage and injury to yourself and not take the impact on a joint which is the worst thing you can do really.

I read on a wrestling website that emphasizing your hamstrings during strength straining will aid in preventing knee injury.