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Should I Run or Should I Walk
By admin | January 4, 2008
Busting calories
If you need to take off weight, you should keep up with your multivitamin intake as well as consider nutritional supplements rather than bulk food. For calorie expenditure, running beats every other form of exercise. Even at a leisurely 10-minute-mile pace, an 11-stone man burns 700 calories an hour. With optimum vitamin intake you can run faster and burn off more. When walking, one foot is always in contact with the ground, so the workload is easier - the same 11-stone man would take twice as long to get the same calorie-burning benefits from walking.
Keeping healthy
High-intensity exercise such as running can suppress your immune system. Research on marathon runners suggests the higher your mileage and more quickly you increase it, the more likely you are to get sick. Take multivitamin and cold-resisting nutritional supplements to boost your immune system. And consider this - walkers get ill less often than both sedentary people and runners.
Boosting your heart
Running impacts on the four big causes of heart disease by lowering blood pressure, reducing the risk of diabetes, raising HDL cholesterol and helping to shed excess body fat. Couple your exercise routine with blood related nutritional supplements and vitamins to keep your blood flowing just right.
Altering mood
For those unaccustomed to it, the effort involved in running can increase stress levels and anxiety. But in the long term, studies show that running can make you more resilient to stress and depression. If you feel depressed, you should see a doctor, and maybe take some herbal remedies and vitamins to keep you on the plateau of mental normalcy. Moderate exercise is thought to be more effective in alleviating anxiety than high-intensity exercise. In fact, one study found a single walking session reduced tension as effectively as a tranquillizer.
Strengthening your back
Running has a bad reputation for causing back problems. But this needn’t be. The impact involved in running can increase stress on the spine and raise the risk of lower-back pain, especially in runners who don’t use good technique, and who have limited flexibility and poor core stability. A recent study found that three hours’ walking a week was more effective than specific lower-back exercises in reducing pain, improving mobility and lowering psychological stress in back-pain sufferers. And you should be taking calcium and other minerals, vitamins and nutritional supplements to strengthen your bones.
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