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Originally Posted by bronco67
The sprinter didn't get this body by jogging.
You're more likely to injure the knees from the repetitive stress of continuously bouncing on them for long periods of time. Jogging is mostly vertical (the worst kind) force exerted on joints vs sprinting which is mainly forward. Also, sprinting can spike your growth hormone and help build muscle. Jogging can eat muscle. Just helping you get the memo so you're not dishing out more bad advice.
People who don't do HIIT -- from what I've seen personally -- is they can't get comfortable with being uncomfortable. All those people are either fat or skinny fat. |
I disagree
- on the joints issue: you see elderlies running marathon, how many 65+ years old sprinters do you see?
- the picture is misleading and is in fact illustrating my point. This is typically what the fitness industry use to make $$ because it can only sell what is visible and looks good.
I would argue that the sprinter on the photo LOOKS good but the marathoner has a strong heart.
Furthermore, the sprinter on the photo is not looking like that by simply running, he lifts weights and possibly take steroids. And finally, if the marathoner wanted to look better, well he would eat more and lifts, but maybe that's not his goal so you cannot compare. There are numerous interviews of Arnold Schwarzenegger saying that at some point in his career he was running long distances up to half marathon to shed fat.
On a final point, marathoners do interval training and tempo runs. It is a
lot harder than bodybuilding HIIT. Try running full on for 2 miles a few times.
