Whether running hurts your knees or not depends on whether the way you run is appropriate, and has nothing to do with running itself. In recent years, there are even many research reports that running will not cause more damage to the knees than walking. Even running can help to exercise the muscles around the legs and knees, delay the degradation of knees, and still have healthy and strong knees in old age without relying on supplements.
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1. Many friends don't choose the right running posture in their lives. If you don't keep the standard running posture, the stress on your knees will be uneven, which will cause great wear on your knees. When running, you need to control your body center of gravity and increase the contact area between the soles of your feet and the ground, which can also effectively reduce the damage to your knees.
2. Many friends run directly before running without any warm-up exercise, which will have a certain impact on our muscles and ligaments, and it is also easy to cause knee ligament strain, which will cause great damage to the knee.
3. In life, if our knees ache after running, we must be careful not to run in uphill and downhill places at will. Since you choose to run on the flat ground, you must pay attention to doing some warm-up exercises when doing strenuous exercise to avoid damaging your knees.
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However, it should be noted that if your knee has been injured, or you have had knee surgery and your running posture is incorrect, you will increase the risk of arthritis. Secondly, people who are 9 kilograms overweight should not run vigorously, otherwise it will oppress knee joint inflammation, form bone spurs and accelerate cartilage loss.
To say goodbye to running and hurting your knees, you must keep your weight. No matter what kind of exercise, as long as it is carried out on land, both legs have to bear the pressure brought by weight, so keeping a light weight can really reduce the burden on the knees.
For runners who are heavier and want to exercise or lose weight by running, it is more suitable to start with other aerobic exercises with less burden on their knees. Swimming and cycling are good choices.
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As you lose weight, gradually increase running mileage and keep regular running habits, you will find that running is a good partner to maintain leg muscle strength and control weight, not a murderer of knee injury.