Running
If you think you may enjoy running, then by all means try it, but buy the right shoes first. If you intend to run on roads or pavements, you must wear proper road-running shoes with air-cushioned soles. Hard surfaces and the wrong shoes can badly jar ankle, knee, and hip joints, to say nothing of the spine.
Running, however, doesn’t suit everyone. If you are overweight, then walk or swim instead, until you are closer to a healthy weight. Then, if you feel like it, you can start running. Don’t start running if you have trouble in the weight-bearing joints—the knees, ankles, hips, and back. Swimming and cycling is probably better for you.
If you find the running begins to get boring after a while, change to something else. You will not keep up any exercise for a lifetime if you don’t really like it.
Don’t Become an “Exercise Bore”!
Don’t take the exercise too seriously, either. “Exercise bores,” who can talk about nothing other than their times and speeds, are hardly popular! In fact, don’t buy a stopwatch; competitions and speeds should not be part of your approach. How long you spend on your exercise is probably more important than its intensity. A four-mile walk will get your heart as fit as if you had run the same distance in half the time.
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