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- From: wolf@doppel.first.gmd.de (Wolfgang Koehler)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Knee problem... sound familiar?
- Message-ID: <WOLF.93Jan4010234@doppel.first.gmd.de>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 00:02:34 GMT
- References: <42991@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
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- Reply-To: wolf@first.gmd.de
- Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin
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- In-reply-to: hduncan@cs.ucsd.edu's message of 3 Jan 93 03:04:00 GMT
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- In article <42991@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> hduncan@cs.ucsd.edu (Hal Duncan) writes:
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- I just started running again in September after several years of working
- on my couch potato impersonation. I started with 1.5 miles at 9 per a
- couple of times a week, and worked up to 4.5 miles at 8.5 per three or
- four times a week by mid-November. This, by the way, is the farthest
- I've _ever_ been able to run consistently.
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- [stuff deleted]
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- This kind of question I answer every other month. Even though the injuries
- are different, the cause is always the same : you have built up your
- running pensum too quickly.
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- You must recognize one main topic if you start a regular training.
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- ** Different systems of your body have different adaptation times ****.
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- This makes it very complicated for beginners (I suppose it's not only
- the case for runners).
- The muscles and the cardio-vascular system adaptate very quickly after
- you start (some two or three months).
- However, your bones, joints and tendons do not so !!!!!
- Their adaptation to these stresses will last at least one, possibly two years !
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- My advice for you is:
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- First : take the things slowly. You have lost some years with no exercise,
- so some months more shouldn't mention.
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- Second : Probably, you are a little overweighted (if not, the better).
- This additionally stresses your joints. Try to get rid of it.
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- wolf
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