The Joy of Exercise

Yes, check the chart above. Walking is a great way to get in your aerobic workout for the day. The great thing about walking for your aerobics is that you can do it by yourself, you can go anytime of day or night that you want to, you can vary the time of day from day to day, you can go faster or slower as you wish. You can also go farther or shorter, and you can pick out the route. Nothing to say you can’t walk on the beach in the summertime and enjoy the sights and sounds of the surf and sand and those marvelous new bikini swim suits.

“Can walking really be beneficial? It seems so simple.”

Exactly. Walking is simple, natural and it’s been around for a long, long time. It’s bound to stay here. Why?

Many people say that walking is the simplest and safest way to get in your aerobic conditioning work. Because it puts a stress on your lungs, walkers are not as likely to smoke cigarettes as more inactive people.

Walking can also help you to relieve the stress of the day. It can do a lot to improve your mood and clear up your thinking.

Important for us in this program is that walking can help you take off weight and keep it off. Some even think that walkers become more concerned with their health so they build up good nutritional habits. Whether due to the better eating habits or better circulation, walking is thought to slow down osteoporosis a problem for many older women.

What about the person who says that walking is fine, but why not speed up the benefits by running. Fine, give running a shot. I’ve done a marathon, a run of 26 miles 285 yards. It’s a long ways. I spent over six months and 1200 practice miles getting ready for the big day.

I made it, without a record, and I admit that I started out too fast and had to walk several times. But I made it. After the thrill of the marathon, I kept running, but I tapered off then to a four mile run a day. It seemed so short and done so quickly.

Two months later my left knee told me it was tired of running. The knee’s cartilage was simply wearing thin on some of the vital places it was needed in there. I stopped running.

Much later, I began walking. The walking actually strengthened the knee so it no longer gave me any trouble.

Why did running do me in? Running lifts the whole body off the ground and your foot, ankle, knee and hip take the pressure as you land and stride forward. Each time your foot hits the ground or pavement, it hits with a force of three times your body weight.

A basketball player going up for a lay up or jamb or jump shot can come back to the maple floor with the force of seven times his weight. That’s one reason many basketball players have foot and knee problems.

Walking doesn’t put these tremendous strains on the body’s joints because there’s not jolt.

Most walkers use the heel-to-toe method of walking. You hit on your heel and roll forward to the ball of the foot and push off with the toe. Simple, shock free and easy.

Some folks who know tell us that every day in this nation of ours, more than 65 million people take part in some form of exercise, sports or aerobic training. Guess what their favorite form of workout is? Right….walking.

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Category: Exercise, Nutrition, Sports, Workout

Tags: foot, health, knee, people, running, Sports, walking