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Anonymous
sup /fit/

Running is not bad for your joints, discuss.
>> Anonymous
My sister's ovary twisted and almost exploded because she ran too much. Had to be removed.

Bitch can't have babies now, shit's awesome.
>> Anonymous
I agree, the other day I was discussing with my brother about what to put in our gym room, I inform him that I'm buying a treadmill and he says BAWWW BUT IT'S BAD FOR YOUR JOINTS!!!!! GET AN ELLIPTICAL MACHINE!!! wtf? We are both males in our early 20s. We don't need fucking excercise equipment for 80 yr old physical therapy patients
>> Anonymous
>>85757
this is exactly what i think. and i think most people that say "LUL RUNNING IS BAD 4 UR JOINTZ" are really just looking for another excuse they can use to slack off and not do it.

bottom line is, unless you've already got bad knees before you start or an obvious problem (your over 9000lbs) its not going to do you any harm.

i've never seen a study that says running will cause problems for a healthy individual.
>> Anonymous
>>85757

Chances are, you're going to have at it pretty often. If you carry that out through your older years, (by older years, I mean after your 20s), that thing WILL be causing damage to your joints further in your life. Even now, you'Re probably causing damage to it now, which will only be a hassle later.

Buy a stationnary bike to build up your cardio and knee surrounding muscle separately for the treadmill. Then have fun with the treadmill.

Then again, this kind of usage is only if you're madly going at it, flailing your arms around and all. Although can't hurt to build a little knee muscle beforehand, even if it's not exactly the same group of muscle than you're going to use for running.
>> Anonymous
>>85766
ha. i've seen plenty. there was a doco on tv a few weeks back. and i believe the whole you have to be fit to run, not run to get fit.
>> Anonymous
>>85768

What if it's one of those newfangled treadmills that have all the cushioning and your wearing a good pair of shoes?
>> Anonymous
Run on grass.

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>> Anonymous
>>85768
>>85769
EXACTLY. its not like humans are even supposed to run. they aren't, thats why they can't do it. humans today are so much more evolved then their ancestors from 100-200 years ago, thats how they were able to run but now it causes joint problems.
>> Anonymous
hey look, running is fine.

http://www.uihealthcare.com/topics/sportsmedicine/spor3355.html

http://www.roanokeortho.com/sjjoints.htm

http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/1/1

http://www.newrunner.com/article/0,7120,s6-241-285--12232-0,00.html
>> Anonymous
>>85773
i assume you're being sarcastic? the problem is that most people don't continue running all their lives, from childhood, and that these days everything is concrete. if someone has been inactive for a long time, lacks condition (and this is most of the modern western world these days) and then runs on concrete, bad things will happen. concrete did not exist during evolution; fuck, even an antelope will do damage running on that shit.

running on grass will mitigate the problems. as will having decent muscle culture on your legs (therefore able to maintain stride and absorb shock instead of flapping feet, ie being fit). but most people don't have this. so bad shit happens. there was a national running program in i believe denmark that was cancelled for preciselly these reasons.
>> Anonymous
>>85776
yeah its not like the romans had 50,000 miles of paved roads. oh wait.
>> Anonymous
>>85775
i don't think those links say what you think they do. maybe you should go back and re-read them.

>>85780
sorry, you think you have a point here? if so, please elaborate. the argument is specious at best. and in evolutionary terms, a couple of thousand years is bullshit. in fact in order for it to make any difference, dickhead, it would have to be selection pressure for survival. somehow i don't think that's the case.
>> Anonymous
>>85773
>>85780

Romans were lucky to live past their 30s. They did not live to see how their knees got at old age. They only lived to buttrape the children in the village they were invading.

If you're getting fit, my guess is that you would also like to live a healtier life, and live older. Enjoy an arthritis filled, fulfilling rotting.
>> Anonymous
>>85780
and anyway faggot, just to continue, that's not the actual point is it? romans had a higher level of physical activity; it was an agrarian culture. people were fitter. they lived in constant states of activity; the majority of the population would have continued running and walking everywhere their entire lives (even the rich prized physical culture). so. you're an idiot.
>> Anonymous
Oh and I forgot, romans went to war only a couple of years, then staying at home fucking their slaves and their underage wives. Then having homosexual sex because men were the better beings, and only them had the right to citizenship.

So those rocky roads weren't used every fucking day by every fucking roman to even walk on.

Evolution takes millions of years to have an effect. Let's not even bring the theory of natural selection because the way humans are headed, that concept is useless. We will always be paying for those niggers on wellfare.
>> Anonymous
>>85786
I don't give a shit about living longer and being old. I want more definition NOW so that I can then translate that to MORE PUSSY NOW. Not everyone wants to live forever. Some of us just want to get some action before we die.
>> Anonymous
>>85792
okay then why are we even talking about this. Just starve yourself to death (or "desired definition") , and then take steroids to build muscle.

Or, faster way, buy a whore.
>> Anonymous
>>85795
Starving myself would be bad because I am a paranoid fuck who believes that the second I start losing muscle a bunch of knuckle heads will jump me and kill me, thus negating my attempts to get laid. Also I'm a martial artist.
>> Anonymous
>>85805

Well then looks like ROIDS it is.
>> Anonymous
>>85790
>and only them had the right to citizenship.
>and only them had
>only them
>them
>> Anonymous
running causes cancer.
>> Anonymous
>>85805

Oddly, being jumped and killed is one of my dark fantasies, but only when it involves multi-cock rape.
>> Anonymous
>>85870
Back to /b/ with you!
>> Anonymous
>>85881

Yeah, having rape fantasies must mean I'm trolling and from /b/.
>> Anonymous
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>>85805

to counter that, niggers usually put on clothes that are 3 points larger than what they should wear.
>> Anonymous
>>86445
This is true, their t-shirts usually go down to their knees.
>> Anonymous
So what are you saying, if I want to exercise I shouldn't go for a run?
>> Anonymous
>>85870
I want to believe you are a woman, but the cautious part of me believes you are a fag
>> Anonymous
Especially if you have a hereditary disposition to shin splints. Ugh. Just swim instead. Leave running around to the natural athletes.
>> Anonymous
>>85745
>>85745
only with the conditional,
1. you wear the right sneakers
2. you eat the right things
3. you know how to run
4. you know how to take care of yourself
5. and do not weigh over 9000

but way too many ppl on this board are fat, lazy fucks who just start running b/c they can barely get enough willpower to exercise much less research their new sport....and then suffer from x horrible damage

and yes, running is a sport, like boxing, tennis, bowling, football, etc....

LOL at person running in chucks or cons is like boxing without wrapping hands
>> Anonymous
People put their bodies through far worse things than running.