I just copied and pasted it from an online newspaper. Just wondering if it might actually be true.
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Running might not be the ideal form of exercise, especially if you want to lose weight.
Says Greg Brookes, a London-based personal trainer: "Lots of people start running to lose weight and it doesn't always work - and this is why."
"Fat is one of our body's favourite sources of energy," says Brookes. "The more you run, the more your body prepares itself for your next run. You will actually start to hold on to more fat," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
Brookes, with a clientele that includes celebrities, high-fliers and housewives, suggests why you won't get leaner is that the body is an amazing machine and will adapt to anything.
"The more time you spend running, the better you become at running and the more efficient you get, the less energy you use and the fewer calories you burn," says Brookes.
According to him, running is also bad for joints. "When you run, two-and-a-half times your bodyweight is transmitted through your joints."
"If that force is repeated over and over, eventually your weakest joint will give out. Usually the ankles or the knees are the first to go," he adds.
Contrary to popular belief that any exercise will speed up your metabolism, running can, says Brookes, do the opposite.
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Is this true?
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Havent a clue if this os true or not but who cares as long as you enjoy the running. When I first started running a few months back I did it to lose weight but now I enjoy it so much that my goals are not weight loss ones anymore I have noticed that I have started to tone up which is better as I don't want to be slim but more toned.
Anyway I heard lots of people say they have lost weight doing running so it must be true.
Anyway I heard lots of people say they have lost weight doing running so it must be true.
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I also have no idea, but even though I have started running, I do other things. I have read many times that you should vary your exercise routine regularly, but I don't know that equates to dropping an activity altogether. For example, I love step aerobics classes and the routines change every 2 or 3 months. Anyway, that objection (that our body gets accustomed to an exercise) would seem to apply equally to any activity. Maybe there is some truth to it, but exaggerated?
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It is true that your body adapts to any exercise and so the pure weight loss or strength gain benefits reduce. However, with running (and other exercises) there are ways to counteract that: you can do long runs, or interval runs, or hill training, or HIIT.
You will get fat loss benefit from working up to running for half an hour. Your weight may stay the same, but an indicator such as BMI should show that you are replacing fat with muscle. You'll also actually be healthier, and feel healthier, and be able to make your body work too, which seems to be what it's about, really
On damage to joints, I'd be asking Greg Brookes for his sources. It sounds intuitive, doesn't it, that running might damage your joints. At least one study (that pesky thing that real scientists do) contradicts this, and shows that runners have better joints in old age, and also live longer than non runners: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN11379034
"The study also showed that people cannot use the risk of injury as an excuse not to run -- the runners had fewer injuries of all kinds, including to their knees."
My thought is that running is a good thing, and doing other exercise as well (or instead) is a good thing too
You will get fat loss benefit from working up to running for half an hour. Your weight may stay the same, but an indicator such as BMI should show that you are replacing fat with muscle. You'll also actually be healthier, and feel healthier, and be able to make your body work too, which seems to be what it's about, really
On damage to joints, I'd be asking Greg Brookes for his sources. It sounds intuitive, doesn't it, that running might damage your joints. At least one study (that pesky thing that real scientists do) contradicts this, and shows that runners have better joints in old age, and also live longer than non runners: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN11379034
"The study also showed that people cannot use the risk of injury as an excuse not to run -- the runners had fewer injuries of all kinds, including to their knees."
My thought is that running is a good thing, and doing other exercise as well (or instead) is a good thing too