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Does AI coaching cause more injuries?

Did Runna injure you? Or did you injure you?

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Raziq Rauf
Sep 29, 2025

That’s the word on the message boards. Complaints of Runna’s training plans center around ramping up both distance and intensity too quickly leading to overuse injuries like stress fractures, muscle tears and shin splints.

But I’m not so sure it’s AI’s fault.

I got injured, for instance, without the use of Runna while being a USATF-certified coach. Hmmm. …

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