In previous articles, we compared running with bodybuilding and with bike rides... Today we will consider the positive and negative effects of running and walking on the body and compare them.
Benefit for health
Running for health
Running is definitely good for health... First of all, this concerns the cardiovascular system, which can be strengthened just by running without the use of drugs. Exercising your heart while running allows the main muscle in our body to pump more blood. That is why runners never have tachycardia, since the heart can easily cope with any load.
In addition, running helps to improve the functioning of the lungs and all internal organs in general. People who regularly run are less likely to get viral diseases, and if they do get sick, the healing process lasts much faster.
Running perfectly strengthens the legs, abdominal muscles, buttocks. Improves metabolism and burns excess visceral (internal) fat, which is the cause of many diseases, including diabetes.
Jogging can be done at any age. For more details, read the article: how old can you run.
But running has a clear drawback. And it consists in a negative effect on the knee joints. However, here, too, not everything is so simple. Because knee pains occur either in those who run incorrectly (on how to run correctly so that the knees do not suffer, read the article: how to put your foot when running), or those who run too much. That is, for avid joggers and professional athletes. To improve health, 30 minutes of jogging several times a week will be enough. Therefore, if you follow the basic rules of running, then there should be no problems. However, if you already have knee problems, then choose walking. Let's talk about it in more detail now.
Walking for health
Everything that is written above about running can be attributed to walking. Regular walking also strengthens the heart and lungs. They have an excellent effect on metabolism and strengthening the immune system. Walking for an hour a day can reduce the risk of catching a cold by several times.
In addition, walking, unlike running, only positively affects all joints of the body, including the knee. Since walking is a soft load for which any human body is completely ready.
Doctors recommend health-improving walking as a means of preventing viral diseases, as well as a way to quickly recover from operations.
However, walking has one drawback. It has an extremely low intensity. This means that the runner will achieve results in strengthening the immune system, leg muscles, abs, improving heart function, etc. many times faster than the one who prefers walking.
In addition, a runner will still have a higher development of the body than an amateur walker. This is due to the intensity of the running.
However, for walkers, there is a great alternative - race walking. This type of movement looks funny. However, it meets the same requirements as regular walking, while the intensity is not inferior to running.
For clarity, I will give the numbers. The world champion in 50 km race walking runs a distance of 4 minutes per kilometer on average. And this is a speed of 15 km / h. Few of the running enthusiasts will be able to overcome even 20 km running at such a speed.
But at the same time, ordinary walking, albeit with less success, has a very good effect on health.
Slimming benefits
Slimming jogging
Running can be the only necessary exercise for weight loss, if you follow rules of proper nutrition and include not only normal running, but also fartlek... The running intensity is very high, so this type of load burns fat well. The same cannot be said about walking.
Slimming walking
Unfortunately, regular walking has very little effect on fat stores. This is primarily due to its low intensity. Only walking for many hours can somehow help you lose weight.
However, walking, as well as running, has one very big plus. Both running and walking are great for improving metabolism. But poor metabolism is the main problem of all obese people. If the body cannot normally process the substances entering it, then it cannot lose weight.
Therefore, if you eat right, drink plenty of water and take walks regularly, then you can really lose weight. Maybe the process in this case will be slow. But the result will still be. If you run, observing nutrition and water balance, the result will go much faster.
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