What are the benefits of walking for a long time? 5 benefits you can reap
Walking is something that everyone does every day, but with the improvement of living standards, there are various means of transportation to take when you go out. If you want to eat food, your mobile phone can be delivered to your door, and this kind of convenience has also caused us of laziness.
Some people can never take more than 1,000 steps per day, or even lower, and this low-quality exercise will only speed up the aging of the body and cause various health problems.
In fact, walking is one of the best sports in the world. It is suitable for all kinds of people, whether they are children or the elderly, thin or fat, they can exercise.
Compared with other aerobics, the "difficulty" coefficient is much lower, so it is easier to do. At the same time, it does not need to take special time to exercise. As long as you reduce the number of rides and walk more on the way to and from work, you can improve your fitness. The amount of exercise you do can give your body a full workout.
Keep walking for 1 hour a day, and if you stick to it for a long time, you can reap 5 benefits from it.
- Strengthen lower limb joints
The biggest damage to the knee comes from sitting for a long time, because the leg is the part farthest from the heart. If you always sit for a long time, the blood flow will be slower and slower, which will only speed up the knee joint. The degree of aging can even cause the phenomenon of elephant legs. The legs are the source of strength, and its degeneration will only make your movement inconvenient, while walking can exercise your knees, thereby improving the strength of the lower limbs and strengthening the knee joints, as well as promoting blood circulation.
- Improve blood pressure
For people with high blood pressure, they are not suitable for high-intensity exercise, and can only choose some lower-intensity exercises. Walking is a moderate-to-low-intensity exercise, and it is also a relatively mild exercise. It is very suitable for people with high blood pressure to exercise. It can not only help them reduce cholesterol, blood lipids, blood pressure, etc., but also exercise, so that they can have a healthy body of.
- Improve constipation
Most office workers suffer from constipation. This is because their usual diet is too greasy. After eating, they continue to sit in front of the computer for several hours. They rarely get up and move around halfway. This is all exercise caused by the decline. And insisting on walking every day, it can not only strengthen the gastrointestinal function, but also promote the number of peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, thereby speeding up the digestion of food, and at the same time, it can also promote defecation and improve your "constipation" situation.
- Promotes fat burning
For people who are too large, they are not suitable for excessively intense exercise, otherwise they will easily hurt their knees. And walking is very suitable for them to exercise, not only will not hurt the knee joint, but also help them burn more calories. Walking can consume 300-400 calories per hour. There was once an obese man who tried to walk for an hour. With a healthy diet, he successfully lost ten kilograms in three months.
- Improve bad posture
This kind of physical disease is getting younger and younger, and most of them appear in office workers and people with low heads. Because of their wrong sitting posture, they are always in a state of "hunched over", causing the originally normal spine to begin to deform, even There is also a phenomenon of low back pain, and in terms of temperament, it will also lose a lot of others. And insisting on walking every day can change this bad posture and drive away these sub-healthy diseases.
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