Abstract

Running is bad for you. Although the American Heart Association says that running is good for your body and promotes high cardiovascular activity, there is a price to pay that comes along with this, and that is damage to your knees. In 1999 the National Runners Safety Institute recently conducted an experiment amongst eighty people concerning their daily running habits. Twenty people were assigned to run five miles a day for a month, twenty people were assigned to run three miles a day for a month another twenty people were told to run two miles a day for a month. The last group of twenty was told to run a mile every other day for a month.

In the following month, scientists surveyed the eighty people asking a series of questions regarding how their knees felt after their runs, during their runs and overall throughout the day before and after their workouts. The group that ran three to five miles a day complained about the most knee pain a month later, some reported tendonitis and others complained of a clicking and crunching sound while running. Scientists came to the conclusion that this was effected by the high impact on the knees for an extended period of time which would cause your cartilage to grind upon your knee cap. Thus causing such pain. It was also found that the people who ran two miles a day and a mile every other day had less complaints of knee injuries and pain in general.

Conclusion

Conclusive studies by the National Runners Safety Institute have come to find that less is actually more in this case. The less running you do in a week not only would suffice your cardiovascular health, but also spare your knees and prevent various injuries associated with the study.