Running...

Well, I read somewhere that running will eventually weaken your knees. In one sport TV program, they told us that jumping as in a basketball games eventually hurt the player's knees. So, I guess running will be the same only with lesser effect.

There is nothing greater than running in the sand.It is quite difficult but if you try doing it everyday you will quickly become used to it.I work at the seaside so I try to run as many times a week as I can.I do it early in the morning when the sand is not too hot but is hot enough to make you feel that strange thrill all over your body.

Firstly congrats on quitting smoking! I do a lot of running/jogging at the gym on top of the weights, I prefer to run/jog on the treadmill rather than outdoors, because it has less stress on the joints and in particular the knees, I also find that I can run for longer on the treadmill and it's far safer too as I like to have my Ipod on and with the treadmill you can include incline and other programs to make it more interesting. I wear Nike trainers and as I walk 30 minutes to get to the gym I consider that part of my warm up, although when I get to the gym I like to limber up first and do a few press ups. I do about 30 minutes on the treadmill and you can easily burn up hundreds and hundreds of calories. It's great to vary it, so you are not just doing the same thing like sprinting, hill walking, jogging etc, and modern treadmills have tvs on them, not that I watch them, I prefer to be tuned out with my music! They do say if you run outside, to avoid pavements as the pounding on the pavements doesn't do your joints any good, stick to grass, sand I find makes running twice as difficult, but it's what you become accustomed to and find easier. Good luck with it.

Running on sand or grass can be bad if you are prone to rolling your ankles or tendonitis or anything like that. It is good to vary the surfaces you run on though. People make all sorts of excuses when they are too lazy to run themselves and just want to bring you down. I've heard: "You'll ruin your knees!", "Running gives you wrinkles!", "Your feet are going to look disgusting on your wedding day!" (never mind that I'm not even engaged!). And someone even told me women weren't designed to run. I told them that women obviously evolved to run just like men did.

i never heard about this but maybe its true im running as well twice a week but i never felth pain in time maibe becouse i have running shoes , i love running i feel so god afther a run a couple of blocks and its a grate way to loose some punds :D, but it will not have that much of an affect if you eat o ton of trash food afther you run

I see, well those are the little things, eventually your pain is troublesome, but if you watch out with what you do (the warming up, gettting the right shoes), there shouldn't be any problem running on solid ground. Eventually I run with normal shoes, with little bit of warm up, but I walk on a sandy parcour, so I still don't have any stress anywhere. But I guess taking special designed shoes for it can't be anything bad. Many people using them reach much longer distances, so I heard. I'll be trying them as well soon enough. Keep it up with the running eh geo ;)

Hi geojob: I think that runnning on the grass would be beter for your body because grass it's lighter than the asphalt and that's a pro. I think it's very important to make a warm up before starting to do a physical activity and that is probably the most important thing you have to remember now but in general I would say that running is a very healthy habitude so it's ok to continue caring for your body and your physical state. Thanks for sharing with us your experience. Have a nice day. ALVARO.