Tips to run better and avoid injury 🏃♂️➡️👟🏃♀️➡️
Running is bad for your joints isn’t it?
I hear this a lot when people talk about running & it’s so wide of the mark!
Don’t get me wrong, if you make a load of these mistakes below, then running can lead to injury pretty easily. Running with poor form, not doing any strength training, upping the miles week by week too quickly or not fuelling your training properly?
All these (and more) can lead to injury pretty quickly.
But if you get it right, then running can massive HELP with some of the injuries people associate with running.
A September 2025 study published on the National Library of medicine compared running to non-weight bearing sports like Cycling and Swimming finishes with the following quote; “These findings challenge the idea that running harms bone health.”
Powerful words – See👉 Factors associated with bone health in long distance runners
As we age, reduction in bone density becomes a huge issue for our health.
This study by the John Hopkins Osteoporosis Center summarized “For every one standard deviation below peak bone mass, the risk of vertebral fracture is two times that of normal bone mass, and for the hip, the risk is 2.5 times.”
If you want to protect yourself later in life, then doing more weight bearing exercise now, like running, can help massively reduce your risk.
The key though – don’t make the mistakes most new runners make, do it right from the beginning!
You don’t need to run less, you need to run better!
Matthew Davies lives in Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom.
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