Dr. Vonda Wright

I want to dispel a myth right now that is so common in the population that there is no evidence that running causes arthritis, right? Running itself and studies have shown that runners on the whole have less heart disease, have less metabolic disease. They also, if they don't lift weights, have less muscle.

I want to dispel a myth right now that is so common in the population that there is no evidence that running causes arthritis, right? Running itself and studies have shown that runners on the whole have less heart disease, have less metabolic disease. They also, if they don't lift weights, have less muscle.

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.