July 28, 2008

Will walking make you fit?

Walking at a moderate pace of 5 kilometres per hour will provide you with enough energy to met the definition of ‘moderate physical exercise’. Furthermore walking is able to provide the kind of preventative benefits that are usually seen with the more strenuous forms of exercise. It can help to ward off degenerative illnesses such as diabetes (diabetes 2) as long as the walking was undertaken on a regular basis. The risk was lowest amongst those people who walked at a brisker pace.Walking also appears to promote identical oxygen consumption to running. When men of a sedentary nature were asked to jog for six times a week for thirty minutes, as part of a program of endurance training, they consumed the same amount of oxygen as walkers who were walking for the same length of time and frequency. The only difference was that the joggers had higher levels of high density lipoprotein cholesterol, which is a beneficial cholesterol, for the body.Participating in only three months of brisk walking can lower levels of blood insulin and even a single fast walk will improve the blood cholesterol levels. However an interesting fact is that exercise intensity does not seem […]

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