Is the treadmill really harmful to the knees? The use of treadmill fitness is a popular fitness method in recent years, especially obese people love to use the running platform to burn fat. Many people, especially white-collar workers, are keen to do fitness cards, run on the treadmill in the gym, or purchase a treadmill at home, a run is an hour. Running on the treadmill, is there really damage to the knee? If so, how big is the damage? Whether it is obese people or ordinary fitness people, in the process of using the running platform is difficult to ignore a problem is a long period of repeated exercise, and the high impact of the exercise process, the local high pressure strong on the lower limb joints, muscles, bones and other tissues brought about by chronic injury. The biggest problem with the treadmill is that it is a fixed speed, always according to the same speed, a run for half an hour, an hour, if the knee joint and muscle coordination can not keep up, it will form a shock injury to the meniscus and cartilage of the knee joint. It’s like carrying a heavy bag in your hand, it’s okay to carry it for a while and rest, but if you keep carrying it without resting, you will soon get tired. Is it really good to wear knee pads while exercising? Many of you wear knee pads when you exercise, which is a big misconception. Only injured people need to wear knee pads, and ordinary people don’t wear them if they can. The reasoning is simple: the environment has a much higher impact on a person’s health than genetics. That means that the knee must be allowed to adapt to the external impact, and without the process of adaptation, it will never improve.