The fact that June 5th was National Running Day was lost on many people. Why? The joints and muscles of most individuals are not flexible or strong enough to take the pounding that running requires. However, almost anyone can walk and this exercise seems to be as effective as running. There's even recent research that proves this.
In April 2013, Paul Williams of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and Paul Thompson of Hartford Hospital in Connecticut compared 33,060 runners to 15,045 walkers and found that it's how much a person exercises, in terms of energy spent, not how long he or she spends exercising. While it takes longer to walk a mile than to run one, when these two exercises compared in terms of energy expended, they are comparable yielding the same benefit. Read more here: www.texasback.com/spine_place
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9 июн 2013