Kuikentje wrote:Totally Scrambled wrote:I saw a report the other day saying that joggists of Middle Age and upwards were costing the NHS a fortune by needing their worn out joints replacing.
Dom
Well, that just sounds like a bit of an excuse to me and it isn't going to cost as much over time as trying to minimise the effects of all the health problems caused by lack of exercise. Our bodies will tell us when to stop and we have to learn to distinguish between the pain that's saying "Oh, you haven't used that bit of you for a while" and the pain that's saying "You'd better stop." People whose joints need replacing are generally not the fit ones but the unfit ones, and joints are more likely to be damaged by overweight and underuse than they are by healthy usage, which is what they are designed for.
The worst thing for me is that if I do hurt myself it takes me longer to recover than it did years ago and it is frustrating to have to take things easy to give an injury time to heal up. Running/jogging is a healthy way of exercising, we just need to make sure that we have comfortable shoes and build up gradually.
Just to add my two penarth.
I am 64. Height 6' weight 10st 8lbs. In my early thirties, I joined the Territorial Army. I got the running bug. I completed 9 marathons. The constant road running has resulted in both knee joints need replacing.
IF YOU HAVE TO RUN, then do all your running on grass. To keep fit, running is totally non essential. A brisk 30 minute walk per day,is all that is needed to maintain fitness.
I am neither fat or overweight, nor have I ever been, yet I have chronic arthritis in both knees, caused so I have been told by "to much running"
Be warned.