Since running has become fashionable, and it must be admitted, yes, it is fashionable, articles and reports in the general media about this sport and its supposed contradictions are multiplying. By the way, what a blessed fashion it is to run. Every day more and more people get up from the couch and take to the streets to jog, run or run with more or less speed. This means that every day there are fewer people in the doctors' waiting rooms, although some people insist on saying otherwise.
It happens that a couple of weeks ago I had an exchange of tweets with a journalist, I am also a journalist, whose text made it clear that running has not crossed his mind, but, oh my friend, the stomach roars every morning and you have to write about anything to eat, whether you know it or not. It often happens that the articles published in these media, I insist, generalist, are not made by someone who knows the subject but by someone who has been commissioned by his boss to do this or that report. And what happens is what happens.
We bury runners every week
The headline that made me want to write to the author and ask him if what he was looking for era clicks on his news to increase his audience said:
"Doctors warn 'runners': "We are burying runners every week"."
This is the typical headline that gives the reader of a running media the creeps. The mother begins to think that her son has gone crazy with running and is taking a gamble with every workout. The husband panics, thinking that his wife, who has recently taken up running and has found in running a way to become herself again, is going to turn into a corpse in the gutter. And the children grab their father or mother by the tights every time they see him or her walk out the door with their shoes on, shouting "Dad, don't run".
If you do the exercise of reviewing the headlines of the news or reports that talk about running you will see that what I say is true. So, at a glance, I have come across things like this:
- "Ten arguments against the running craze".
- "Running too much is bad for your health".
- Running: the negative effects of running long distances".
- " running harms the pelvic floor" Etc, etc, etc, etc ....
Of course, if you look for these headlines in magazines or specialized pages like Runnea you won't find them. And not because it would go against their business, no, but because they are written by people who practice athletics and care to convey information as truthful as possible.
In my posts and in"You can also be a runner" I have been concerned about contacting medical specialists who are also athletes to give real information to the readers about what is achieved, both physically and emotionally, when running.
In case there are any newcomers to running, they should know that when starting out in this sport they will achieve several things, as Doctor Rafa Hervás, doctor and marathon runner, points out:
- Cardiovascular benefits: decrease in heart rate and effective control of blood pressure.
- Ostomuscular: against osteoporosis, physical activity of load, and running is, is the most important stimulus for the formation of new bone.
- Weight and body composition: running helps to keep weight and fat percentage within adequate values. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for our health.
- Endocrine: proper training helps to reduce the risk of diabetes.
- Genitourinary: it is true that the pelvic floor "falls" with running, but proper exercises can prevent it and even mitigate urinary incontinence.
- Psychological: the feeling of well-being and increased energy produced by running improves mood, controls stress and improves sleep.
We could go on giving reasons to continue practicing our sport. Surely each of us can find many others. And surely we know how to put the filter when we read headlines like the one that provoked this post.
The positive side of things
Something happens in this country when the number of runners grows, something that already happened in other places a long time ago, and some people insist on telling how bad it is instead of showing its positive side. Of course, we must insist that things are done well or not, that they have to be checked and pass the itv before starting to run, but let's not turn running into the bête noire of health. I am sure that every day more people are buried as sedentary than as runners.
Next day we'll talk about the ITV, we runners also need a slap on the wrist.
Happy kilometers!
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