Walking is the best way to get fit

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There are many people who are not suited for high-intensity exercise, such as the elderly, those who are overweight, pregnant women, and those who have just had surgery and need to recover. But they can also do exercise to strengthen their bodies, and that’s walking.

01 Walking for fitness is more universal

Since 2/3 of the muscles in the human body are concentrated in the lower body, older people may still have 70% of the grip strength and arm strength of their youth, but only 40% of the strength of the lower body is left. Therefore, the purpose of recommending walking instead of running is that walking is safer than running. Especially for seldom exercise and people over 30 years old, rash running exercise, knee joints, tendons and other parts of the body is easy to injury, heart, kidney, liver and other organs or metabolic system problems, people will also have a significant lack of blood oxygen supply.

02 Moderate Walking

Despite the advantages of walking for fitness over running, any single form of exercise, even walking, can cause sports injuries to some extent. Some people experience pressure and pain in the heels and soles of their feet as a result of walking for too long. This is likely to be the plantar fasciitis caused by walking for a long time, so active walking fitness, but also in moderation.

In addition, for the different needs of different people, walking for fitness is best for each person. For example, obese people, should walk farther, walk faster. Because enhance the speed of walking, can make its blood free fatty acids fully burned, so as to achieve the purpose of weight loss, and for patients with stomach problems, should reduce the speed of walking to 30 to 60 steps per minute is appropriate, and you can walk while massaging the abdomen, every step massage week, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise, each time the walk time 30 to 50 minutes, so that you can ease the stomach brings This can relieve the discomfort brought about by the stomach.

Walking can be carried out in ordinary life, is not a time, not the venue is not limited by the crowd of fitness, if you do not want to do strenuous exercise, why not try walking.