Dr. Vonda Wright

So that is the only reason in my mind that running can be bad for you because unless you eat, unless you lift weights, your body will eat the muscle that you have. And for serious runners, they have a body type. They're all thin, very low muscled. It doesn't mean they're not fast. But that's the only time I can think of.

So that is the only reason in my mind that running can be bad for you because unless you eat, unless you lift weights, your body will eat the muscle that you have. And for serious runners, they have a body type. They're all thin, very low muscled. It doesn't mean they're not fast. But that's the only time I can think of.

I used to believe that six days a week of high intensity interval training was what was going to make me the healthiest. And that's simply not true.

I used to believe that six days a week of high intensity interval training was what was going to make me the healthiest. And that's simply not true.

It made me hurt. It made me exhausted. And I didn't recompose my body at all. I stayed the same composition.

It made me hurt. It made me exhausted. And I didn't recompose my body at all. I stayed the same composition.

Because it wasn't intense enough. It wasn't sprint intervals to really stimulate my body. And... When we do the same thing all the time, we develop imbalances and that's where injury comes from. So when I did high intensity neuronal training five or six days a week, I would always develop left Achilles tendonitis, right hip flexor pain, because I have these imbalances and I was augmenting that.

Because it wasn't intense enough. It wasn't sprint intervals to really stimulate my body. And... When we do the same thing all the time, we develop imbalances and that's where injury comes from. So when I did high intensity neuronal training five or six days a week, I would always develop left Achilles tendonitis, right hip flexor pain, because I have these imbalances and I was augmenting that.

I was pounding that five or six days a week.

I was pounding that five or six days a week.

We should walk everywhere. We should be like New Yorkers and Europeans, walking all the time.

We should walk everywhere. We should be like New Yorkers and Europeans, walking all the time.

We're designed for it.

We're designed for it.

It is hard. We've made it that way.

It is hard. We've made it that way.

Get up from the desk. Our body doesn't care.

Get up from the desk. Our body doesn't care.

There is a pervasive myth in this country that that aging is an inevitable decline from the vitality of youth down some slippery slope to frailty, where we spend the last 20 years of our lives dying. But the fact of the matter is, we actually can be healthy, vital, active, joyful. But people think that they have to go down this slippery slope and that there's nothing they can do about it.

There is a pervasive myth in this country that that aging is an inevitable decline from the vitality of youth down some slippery slope to frailty, where we spend the last 20 years of our lives dying. But the fact of the matter is, we actually can be healthy, vital, active, joyful. But people think that they have to go down this slippery slope and that there's nothing they can do about it.