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Big Chicken!
She said "that's great, but once you turn 45 you'll have to find something else." I laughed and asked why. She said running really messes up your knees.
Good Bad & The Monkey
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
She's probably married to the Kirby vacumn cleaner guy that invaded Bugs house the other day.
Actually, there is no good scientific evidence that running injures healthy knees.
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
Dog-Love
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Michelle
I've got a fever...
And on that note, I'm going to go run some more hills to hurt my knees.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
This knee thang is an awfully popular topic lately. Is there a vast anti-running-cuz-it'll-kill-your-knees conspiracy going on? Do they have cool black helicopters? But since there are a LOT of stupid people out there,
This is a completely un-fun suggestion, but doing hill workouts on a treadmill is one way to avoid this, because you don't have to run back down the hill to repeats. Running uphill = easy on the joints. Running downhill = not so much. Though admittedly, I'd love to see some dub-ass try to run down the hill on a treadmill. I can't even quite visualize how that would look other than the fact that hilarity would ensue.
just don't let the stupid people fly the helicopters
Running uphill = easy on the joints. Running downhill = not so much.
Running downhill IS high impact relative to running uphill. But most of the impact is realized in your low back and quadriceps. Unless you use proper downhill running form (i.e., lean forward, don't overstride). But running downhill is not bad for your knee joints per se.