5 Reasons Why Our Knees Pains While Running.

Being healthy and fit is so essential these days. In India, if you ask any of the youngsters that How should I will be fit? The apparent answer will be to join the gym. Everyone has his/her reasons to join the gym. Some join to build muscles and strength, while some join to lose weight or you can say to be fit.

 

 

 In all these, we often ignored the benefits of running if you want to lose your weight and look fit and attractive. There are innumerable benefits of running. To get in to shape this is the most simple and effective way. While running we commit some mistakes that sometimes resulted in Kness pains too. But the benefits of running always outweigh the pain. First, let us discuss some benefits of Running:

1) Running boosts your health.

Trust me running daily is a great way to improve your health. It helps our body to increase good cholesterol and help in the proper functioning of the lungs and ease your respiration process. It also helps us to increase our Immunity strength and lower the level of blood clots.

2) Help the body to Prevent Disease.

Running helps women to Cure breast cancer and stroke. The initial stage of diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and heart attack get reduced If you run daily.

 

 

 

3) it keeps you away from stress.

 

Stress is one of the major causes of various diseases. The quality of your sleep will automatically get improved if running continuously. Most of the time doctors also recommend a morning walk to keep away tensions and headaches.

4) Help you to lose weight.

To lose weight is like a dream to many of the people. Running is one of the best exercises to reduce your weight and maintain consistency in your body.

These are various benefits to the benefits of Running. Even a short distance of running also helps you to feel energized, confident, and more focused.

Running injuries usually seen when we push ourselves too hard. It is most common with beginners. They want to observe the changes in their body within a short period and that is the reason they face pain due to running. Now, let us discuss some unique kinds of pains due to running.

1) Runner’s Knee:

This is a common form of pain. In this, the cartilage protecting your knee wears down which results in out of alignment issue. You may feel pain while you climb the stairs, Sit down bending your knee, and squatting.

2) Stress Fracture:

In this, a small crack on bone results in pain and discomfort. It occurs mostly due to working rigorously before your body gets used to a new activity.

Relaxing for a certain period can only help you out to ease the pain. Continuously running may worsen the pain more.

3) Achilles tendon:

This may happen during the morning when you start running. Achilles tendinitis causes pain and complexity in the area of the tendon. Running too much distance on a single day may be the reason for Achilles tendinopathy.

4) Muscle Strain:

This is the small tear in the muscle that happens due to stretching a lot. If you pull the muscle you will feel sensation along with pain.

5) Ankle sprain:

This happens due to a small tear of ligaments around the ankle. Twisting of the leg or rolling the legs mainly results in an Ankle sprain.

Ways to overcome them:

1) Try to use well fitted right shoes.

Your shoes should be made according to the function of various parts of your legs. A natural construction-high arch, pronation, supination-and diffuse the impact shooting up the rest of your leg.

2) Don’t push yourself for extra training.

Don’t try to run with more than an increase of 10 %per day. Your ligaments and tendon get less blood flow than your muscles. Therefore, a proper interval of rest is a must.

3) Run-on grass or trails.

Running on the hilly areas or trails add more kind of movement to your legs. Because this helps running with special attention and with the shorter steps. Running on grass is beneficial for the people having the problem of eyesight.

4) Stay in control on downhill.

You should launch yourself slowly while coming down the hills.

Summary:

Running is free you can run anywhere, anytime. It’s not like gymming in which you need special types of equipment. What you need is to challenge yourself and try to achieve those at any cost. As discussed, there are innumerable benefits of Running it’s upon you how far you move. Be focused whenever you are running. Try to follow the easy and simple steps as prescribed while running. Get,set,go.

Kindly share your experiences down below.

-By Sahil Gupta (MBA in marketing, Sri Balaji University, Pune).