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1 pound of weight loss is like 4 pounds off your knees

UniqueMystique said: "I would have to say it's pretty true. I have a knee injury and with every pound I lose the pain eases up more. I'd lost weight once before before becoming pregnant for my second time. When I was in the 150's my knee pain was non-existent.....at 213, it hurt like heck!"

spectrachic311 said: "It's very true. It's part of why they encourage distance runners to be light, so they don't put a lot of strain on their knees. My knees have always had "issues" and any pain that I used to have when I was bigger went completely away as I lost weight."

spectrachic311 said: "My brother in law's a teacher and he told me there's been an increase in the number of ACL injuries in kids lately. He's buddies with the gym teacher and told me that the gym teacher gets BLAMED for the kids getting hurt. The real problem is, the kids that hurt their knees like that are generally very out of shape and heavy. So any activity that's more vigorous than Xbox playing will cause them to get hurt. How sad is that? I guess my brother in law thinks that if kids would lose some weight and be more active, they wouldn't have to worry so much about knee problems. I don't care how much MY kids protest...they will be playing outside whenever there is an opportunity. No way am I going to have a kid with bum knees when they're only 12 or so. Cuz if you don't move it, you lose it. :)"

spectrachic311 said: "It's not usually over exercising that does it, it's exercising wrong. Like going gung-ho in a pickup basketball game when you haven't tried running in 3 years. Your tendons/ligaments are like rubber bands. If you don't use them enough, they get stiff and brittle and are very susceptible to tears/rips/etc. Extra weight adds to the problem usually, but even heavy people can avoid knee problems if they are smart about working out."

Scarlett said: "I did not know that...that is very cool!"

At-War-With-Myself said: "Read this on a flyer at a local fitness center. That is amazing and inspring, considering I'm a aspring basketball player who still has big dreams. Any thoughts on the claim?"

At-War-With-Myself said: "Well I was heavy as a kid, but I was always always always playing ball, i just made bad food choices, which i have changed since i was 18 and have gone from 330 pounds to 255, and im still going toward a goal of around 200-210 pounds settin a 6'3'', im a really good basketball player, i will actually be trying out for college ball next year, if i can get my knees together, I lost weight before freshman year of HS and played with no knee braces and had no problems, i think if i get the weight off i will be fine. Im a man on the mention. Caffiene free hydroxycut is a nice help to, ive been taking it 2 weeks."

Derry said: "I actually messed mine up while I was light, but the weight coming off still seems to help. And the bike seems to help too (unless I take it out 3 times in a day - then I hurt them again :rolleyes: ). But I think it's been making them stronger. That's really interesting about the 1 lb taking 4 lbs off your knees. It makes sense because of impact, but I would never have thought about it. Derry"

Derry said: "Wow, all the folks I know with knee problems got them from over-exercising. That's a bummer that kids are just so fat now that they mess up their knees."