WHY does running cause so many injuries

I've only been running since Dec., and I've had to deal with shin splints, a sprained ankle, and now what I think is plantar fasciitis.
I weight 141 lbs., btw, so it's not like I'm some hamplanet.
I've been lifting (admittedly only with dumbbells up to 65lbs; no barbell compounds) and doing calisthenics for a few years, and I've never had as many issues as often as with running.
I did a 5k yesterday, and now I'm having trouble walking.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You're doing it wrong.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Still new and started too hard. Your technique is probably not the greatest, and you're running on asphalt.

      Nah, it's very common. When lifting you load your muscles and tendons for a short duration with high force, they can usually take it. With running any link link goes brrr immediately.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >running on asphalt
        Concrete, actually.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          also:

          Still new and started too hard. Your technique is probably not the greatest, and you're running on asphalt.

          Nah, it's very common. When lifting you load your muscles and tendons for a short duration with high force, they can usually take it. With running any link link goes brrr immediately.

          >Still new and started too hard.
          Probably. I was already in decent shape from other stuff, so I ran my first 5k within days of taking up running, which maybe was too much, and I've been struggling with balancing injuries and progress ever since.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            welcome to running. I pushed myself during a 5k and did really well. I ended up with a stress fracture in my foot that sidelined me for 5 weeks. During that time I was able to swim and bike without little issue though. Running is simply harder on the body than other forms of cardio. But to me it will always be the most fun and my favorite

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          That's worse!
          Ease off and go slowly for a bit. It can take time to get the legs right. Ran loads for years, took most of a decade off and then started up again. Started off with hamstrings going wrong, then straight into plantar fasciitis on one side and a nicely bruised ankle on the other side. 8 months to clear...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >and you're running on asphalt.
        where am i supposed to run, a pool?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Any shipwright will tell you that it's not the forces that break things, but vibrations.
        Running (repeated thump thump thump) for extended period of time is worse for your joints and skeleton than any other activity.
        You can reduce that consequences by adjusting equipment, technique and environment. Don't run on concrete.

        Or just push a prowler

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You’ve gotta be doing something wrong. I weigh 185lbs and I run 20-30 miles a week without any injuries. Last time I had an injury was mild tendonitis, 2 years ago.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because half the point of training running is to condition your joints/tendons/bones to be able to run more and run faster. Naturally if you push yourself and are competitive, you will constantly be in a balancing act between having mild injury and being healthy. The same goes for lifting and having muscle aches.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Inappropriate recovery.
    Simple as

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Distance running is not what our bodies are designed for. Distance walking and short sprints. That's it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Distance running is not what our bodies are designed for. Distance walking and short sprints. That's it
      That's all I (op) used to do, but supposedly there are health benefits to the "Zone 2" stuff.
      It's just crazy how even a lean, physically active person, with good cardio capacity, still manages to get rekt by running.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because youre eating too many grains. eat more full fat dairy and fatty fish instead

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >because youre eating too many grains. eat more full fat dairy and fatty fish instead
      Thanks, ketard, but I don't need CVD in addition my foot/shin problems.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        enjoy your arthritis moron

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Idk, maybe you’re just a pussy. When I started running as a 250lbs fat frick I did fine and I also ran a minimum of a mile every day/every other day. The worst I got was some knee pain that quickly went away but it was probably from basketball anyways. Either way, dont stop. Your bones will get stronger.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >minimum of a mile every day/every other day
      I'm (op) running 1.5-3 miles every day.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Your point?

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because your cardio increases massively faster than your body's ability to handle the impact, so people almost universally over train and end up fricking their tendons and such. Happened to me too. It feels so easy and effortless to keep going until you start to feel a nagging pain and at that point the damage is already done.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I weight 141 lbs
    Only cardio you should be doing is jumping on my dick, twink

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >>I weight 141 lbs
      >Only cardio you should be doing is jumping on my dick, twink

      https://i.imgur.com/Qo8pzsj.jpg

      >I weight 141 lbs
      Twinky twinky suck my dicky

      >>I weight 141 lbs
      >Twinky twinky suck my dicky
      Can you fat powershitters even see your dicks?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I like how it's always either scrawny twink or obese powershitter and nothing in between.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I like how it's always either scrawny twink or obese powershitter and nothing in between.
          It's only the obese powershitters who push that "a grown man should weigh 200 lbs" nonsense.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I weight 141 lbs
    Twinky twinky suck my dicky

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    too fast too soon.
    start with couch to 5k. if you're young you can probably just do the workouts every other day instead of spacing the workouts three a week like the plan. plateau at 5k for a few months to get used to things, then start building 10% a week. Cap your workouts at an hour unless it's your long run day. Don't bother with speed workouts till you've been doing it a few years. roll out your muscles, approach stretching with caution. learn to shuffle, your foot shouldn't be going past your kneecap. get shoes with a flexible forefoot, don't tie them too tightly. run with a watch with a chronograph function and run for a time, not a distance. Speed comes with volume, and if it's worth it to you later, add more speed with specific workouts. Don't be shy to vary your speed in a workout if it feels natural, but don't push.
    I'm in my fifties, I've been running for decades, I haven't stretched in almost 20 years, I'm rarely hurt.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because we're not "born to run" anymore than a bee is "born to sting"- yeah you can do it if something is fricking with you, but it extracts a significant toll

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Stop running right now and don’t put another mile in until you read Born to Run.

    https://www.chrismcdougall.com/born-to-run/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Samegayging
      After you read that learn the pose method.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Chris Mcdougall isn't even a runner or a scientist. He's a blogger.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I weight 141 lbs., btw, so it's not like I'm some hamplanet.
    You don't have enough muscle to cushion your joints.
    >in b4 marathon runners
    Sure marathon runners are small, but it doesn't mean their bodies aren't fricked up.

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