8 Reasons People Do Dumb Things

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I read the article... I think the OP said it best, that it's fodder for debate. I certainly agree with the theme of the article, which is that we should take everything we hear with a grain of salt (vibram shoes, the perils of aspartame, and a myriad of other things which have been discussed at great lengths in the forum. However, the same logic applies to the article itself, in that I take the author's suggestions with an enormous grain of salt (namely when he makes statements like diet coke can take the rust of metal but who cares? our bodies aren't made of metal).

I think the key to remember about all these fads and crazes and whatnot is that if something makes you feel like crap, don't do it. If you dig it, do it. And if you really dig it, do it twice (a Jim Croce reference). Running in "barefoot" shoes gave me more injuries then running in heavily-padded sneakers. I could never eat a raw vegan diet under any circumstances because I'd be an absolutely miserable person. However, I think kinesio tape helped when I ran the Boston marathon... so I'd use it again (mental or not). I've previously lost a bunch of weight and never cut diet coke out from my diet (though I don't advocate drinking 10 cans a day, as the author does).

That being said, find what works and stick to it. If you like Zumba and people tell you it's a fad, give it a try. If you lose more weight and stay in shape running, then run further. If you eat high protein/low carb, high carb/low fat, use "myplate" or the food pyramid, power to you. Just don't believe everything and anything you read, no matter what the source!

Awesome article, thanks for posting...I agree with most points in the article and that just cuz something works for some people might not work for others. Find what works for you!

PS I am tired of people trying to sell me that bracelet uugghh

I don't agree with the running. . . .only skinny people like to run? I just woke up this morning and went for a run after putting it on the back shelf for a few months and did awesome and loved every second of it and I am not skinny.

To each their own I suppose but I love my running and it is not going away. And neither is my diet soda :drinker:

I do agree with barefoot training. My arches would completely collapse if I did barefoot training. . . .they hurt from wearing flip flops too much. And stupid gadgets. I refuse to buy those stupid bracelets.

Playing basketball doesn't make you tall so running won't make you slim?

Not if you continue to eat above maintenance.

So if you eat below maintenance and play basketball you'll get taller?

Now you're just being ridiculous.

and this goes right back to "Correlation does not mean causation."

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I grew up in sports and it was pretty standard practice to see people with various types of sports tape supporting different muscles based on injuries or specific pains. So the idea of KT Tape didn't seem like some sort of new fad or anything like that when I discovered it. It simply seemed like the evolution of pain and injury aide for athletes.

That said, when I was dealing with knee and ankle pain from injuries I'd sustained as a youth and in high school when I was training for my first half marathon earlier this year, I decided to give KT Tape a try. And as soon as I applied it I wished that I could wear it all the time from how good it made me feel.

I wasn't hoping for much more than reduced pain after my long runs, but the second that I stood up after my first time applying it was one of the first times in a very long time that I didn't experience any immediate pain in either of my knees. I finished up my training with it on both knees for my long runs and ended up taping my calves and my right ankle for the actual half itself. I wanted to buy stock in the company and buy cases of the stuff for how amazing it felt. My ankle felt better after that half marathon than it usually did on a day to day basis.

I just ran my second half over the weekend and once again ran it with Rock Tape brand KT Tape in all the same spots, and I still can't believe the difference it makes. I had bought a different brand of KT Tape in the middle of my training for this one and was extremely unhappy with it since it kept coming off partway through my long runs. But the Rock Tape holds solidly, even through post-race showers (I kept it on since I had a five hour drive immediately after the race and figured that my muscles could use all the help they could get from locking completely up from that horrible combo of things to do to them). The runs I'd done during training were slower-paced and I'd end up with tight muscles and achy knees after each one that the tape failed on. After the half this weekend, my legs and knees actually felt better than they had after I'd run the 5-K the day before.

So to me, a good quality KT Tape is worth it's weight in gold if you have chronic muscle or joint pain that may be made worse from exercise. If you you're just doing it because you've seen other people with it on and think it's going to give you some advantage, than no, it's probably not really worth doing. But there's been days that my knees or ankle are so bad that I contemplate throwing on the KT Tape just to help relieve the pain on a day to day basis.

haha i love this!

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