Running is bad for your knees

Let’s clear this up once and for all: running does not damage your knees. If you’re struggling with sore knees, you probably need to look at how strong your glutes are and whether one side is stronger than the other.

We’ve explained before how frontal knee pain isn’t about the knee itself – it’s about all the other stuff on that side of the body being underactive. To correct and get rid of pain in your knees, you don’t actually have to work on the knee joint at all; you need to work on the stability and strength in your hips, glutes, quads, hamstrings and core.

In fact, a 2013 study of nearly 75,000 runners and nearly 15,000 walkers found that runners were significantly less likely to develop arthritis than the walkers. Paul Williams, the study’s author, concluded that there was “no evidence that running increases the risk of osteoarthritis, including participation in marathons”. Case closed.

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