What To Say When Someone Says “Running’s Ruining Your Knees”

So you have been running You've been running 5 K.

For who knows how long months, weeks, years, and your knees button you?

So you talk to your friend about it. You talk to the doctor, and they're like well, running's ruining your knees.

I promise. At the end of this video I will share exactly what to tell people when they say that running is ruining your knees, because I just don't think it's true.

And I'm a physical therapist. I've been a physical therapist is 2,012.

I'm also a personal trainer. I'm also a nutrition coach, and I like to run. So it's not that the running is ruining your needs, because even other things can ruin your needs, and it's not the running

See any activity. It's good for your needs. Our knees like to move, our knees are meant to move.

That's why they bend and straighten. They're meant to move.

If we weren't meant to move, our bodies would be made differently.

We wouldn't have so many muscles, we wouldn't have so many bones we wouldn't have so many ways to move.

So it's not that the running is rooming your knees so.

Hmm.

See it's all about how stressed your knees are.

That's the strength you're doing the training you're doing, The recovery you're doing the equipment.

You're using the stretching you're doing in the diet.

The food and beverage that you're eating and drinking

So if you have a combination of all of those 6 things, the stressed components you can run without ruining your needs.

So when somebody tells you that all that running's ruining your knees, here's what to tell them.

You can say that while sitting on my butt would ruin my knees too

See, remember when I said that your body likes to move your knees are meant to move.

Well, if you sat and did nothing, your knees would get arthritis as well

Or somebody who's just sitting around their knees aren't getting the motion.

They also are going to get arthritis, arthritis, for some people is just inevitable.

It's the wear and tear that happens in our joints.

That just happens with aging. And so you can have somebody who sits around and does nothing, and they get arthritis.

You can have somebody who goes out and runs a lot, and they can get arthritis

See when we move around our knees, get lubricated.

We have a natural lubricant in our bodies, in our synovial joints.

It's called synovial fluid, and that lines are joints and like oil does for a car, and it makes things move and glide and slide easy when you sit in our stagnant and are static, so is that fluid and so it doesn't slosh around your joints as much. So somebody who sits on their butt all day is going to get arthritis, and is going to “ruin their needs.”

I like to use quotes, because I don't think it's actually ruining the needs

And that's because you can actually have arthritis and have no pain.

Remember those stressed components I was talking about before. If you have a good balance of those, whether you're doing no activity or a lot of activity

If you have a good balance of those, whether you're doing only a little activity or more activity, whether you're walking or running as long as you have a combination of those 6 components, you can make it so that anywhere, and tear that's naturally happening, in your body is going to be calm not inflamed, and not painful.

So, even if you're moving around so the next time somebody says all that running's ruining your knees. Go ahead and tell them that sitting on your butt would ruin them too.

So the next time somebody says that all that running's ruining your knees, go ahead and tell them that people sitting on their butt have knees that have arthritis too.