Warning: Aerobics Can Cripple!

Complex reconstructive surgery to ankles, knees, elbows, and shoulders is becoming common among early middle-aged patients who employ aerobic exercise. And doctors are performing more knee and hip replacements as a result of damage caused by years of abuse from aerobics.

Increased risk for overweight

Most at risk are overweight people because their extra weight increases the dangerous forces they endure during aerobics. Yet, most experts recommend aerobics for weight loss. And the more weight you have to lose, the more aerobics they recommend.

Running, the granddaddy of aerobic exercise, is disastrous for overweight people. Every time your foot hits the ground, you encounter a force equal to three times your bodyweight. That’s hard on your joints if you’re normal weight, never mind if you're carrying a few extra pounds.

Low-impact aerobics are dangerous too

And it’s not just high impact aerobics that can put you at risk of injury. Even if you manage to dodge a stress fracture by choosing an activity like cycling, the grinding repetition can wear out your joints over time. 

These injuries are not only painful and expensive; they can sabotage your fat loss efforts. When you can’t exercise because of injury, strength and fitness decline and your tendency to get fat increases. 

How fit, healthy, and lean do you think you will be if pain forces you to spend your days sitting in an armchair?

The experts are wrong

Doctors and fitness experts recognize the importance of exercise for fat loss and health, but recommend activities that expose you to injury. Injuries that can make the simplest activities like walking painful or impossible. 

A safer, more productive alternative

It makes more sense to choose an activity that helps protect your bones and joints, not expose them to injury. This is why I choose strength training. 

Strength training can strengthen bones, joints, and muscles without risk of injury. What’s more, it takes just 40 minutes a week. 

With all these benefits for so little gym time, why would anyone risk crippling themselves with aerobics?

Comments

[Dr. J]

I recommend walking as a good starting place for activity. If you feel you can increase it, fine, but brisk walking seems pretty safe to me. Weight training, though important, and of course I do it, will not improve VO2 max.

[Empire Fitness]

Hello Craig

Great web site best of luck, let me know if I can help

John

[Craig Knight]

Hi John

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[Craig Knight]

Dr J,

The workouts I use are proven to increase Vo2max. http://www.fatguythin.com/2008/12/strength-training-for-cardiovascular-fitness.html

[Mark Suffolk]

Hi Craig

Congratulations on the weight loss. Those before and afters look fantastic.

Regards
Mark

[Craig Knight]

Thanks, Mark.