In this video I want to talk about why not every person has to run, why not everybody has to run.
So stay tuned if you're curious what I think about that. My name is Chi and you're welcome to The
Body Conditioner. Here we work in, not out! Most of you watching this suffer from imbalances in
the body. Perhaps you have knock knees or you have bow legs or you have challenges with your knees,
meniscus, acl, pcl, so many different things that can occur it can also be that you have challenges
in your hips or in your ankles whatever it is. The body is one and as we have perhaps muscle
imbalances or bone structures that are imbalanced or perhaps you've had an injury, an accident
all that contributes to misalignments in the body perhaps even your nervous system is not at rest,
you are stressed, you are tight all that pulls the muscles together. So that can create a hot spot
for imbalance and perhaps inflammation in the body. Now when you run you put three times your
body weight as load onto your knees, three times. So it doesn't matter what BMI you have, it's still
three times your body weight. Imagine the load on the knees. So if your knees, for example you can
also take your ankles but really one contributes to the next, if your knees for example are not
properly aligned can you see that it will create a hot spot for injury and inflammation in your
knees and the challenge is as the knee suffers the other joints kind of have to compensate and
in the long run they carry more load. And then it's, it becomes a visual circle. So
I was an avid runner in the past I would run like almost every single day sometimes twice
a day just crazy. I can't say that I was fitter than than I am today and I do not want to market
the yoga practice or a mindful practice. But it's very important for us that we need to understand
our bodies before we do exercises like running um where you're constantly in motion. It's very,
very challenging for the body to perform so many motions at the same time and I love functional
exercises or a functional approach to working in. Functional because you can work on those areas
of the body that need more attention right now to then basically create a new bio dynamics. I think
it's very important to take a break from time to time to stop running or doing the gym routine that
you are used to if you have imbalances in the body because as you start a more functional approach
you'll be able to perhaps strengthen areas in the body that need more attention and lengthen
others that need more lengthening and this way you'll be able to get a new functional
movement pattern. And I think that is much more important than just doing the actual exercise and
as we retrain the body you also retrain your mind and funny enough as we do exercises that
are more mindful and exercises that help us stay embodied, in the body, inhabiting the body, the
body receives much more benefits so why I think not everyone needs to run because not everyone has
the natural makeup to run. Some of us need to take a break from running or actually start with a more
functional approach for a while before we can run or even I would say you have a functional routine
that you do like three or four times a week and then you just run once or twice and that really
helps your body create a healthy pattern for whatever workout routine that you want to have. If
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