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A brisk walk can add 20 years to your life
Hate running or going to the gym to exercise and get pissed that you're not fit?
It turns out that you can also just walk fast.
Researchers have found that brisk walking has many benefits - one of which is prolonging your life
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Sunday, 23 May 2021, 00:11
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Enough walking?
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In the last year many of us have become addicted to sports and started running, but the truth is that you may not have to put in that much effort, and you can enjoy almost all the benefits of running with the help of brisk walking.
"Nothing will give you the benefit of brisk walking unless you run - and it's as good as running," Professor Thomas Yates, an expert in physical activity, sedentary behavior and health at the University of Leicester, told the Daily Mail who recently published a study proving the speed at which you walk Not only is it a good indicator of fitness, but can prolong life.
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"A person who walks faster can add to his life expectancy 20 years," he says, "a brisk walk improves cardiovascular fitness, which is a measure of how efficient heart function is, and the ability to use oxygen, which is an indicator of fitness."
He says this is true even if you breathe lightly after walking.
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Professor Yates 'study, which involved more than 400,000 middle-aged people from the UK's Biobank database - which holds more than half a million UK residents' health records - suggested that the pace at which we were walking could even indicate our chances of eliminating infections like Covid-19.
The results, published in the International Journal of Obesity, found that those who walk slowly (defined below 3 km / h) are 2.5 times more likely to develop severe corona, and 3.75 times more likely to die from it compared to those who walk faster - even among those with Healthy weight. "Even if you have a high BMI (body mass index), but still walk fast, your risk is still lower than those in good health but walking slowly."
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But what exactly is fast walking? "They tested 100 measures the minimum, or 5 miles an hour; you get the greatest benefit when you increase the speed in mph even one, but there is an increased benefit when you rise rise beyond 6 miles per hour," says Professor Yates.
Walk Fast builds many muscles, including the calf muscle, quadriceps and core muscles.These muscles build the metabolic rate at rest and help prevent the accumulation of abdominal fat.This is why walking fast, which is a form of low to medium intensity exercise, burns fat, while That vigorous and aerobic activity uses carbohydrates.Walking can also build cardio-pulmonary endurance.
This is not the first study to show the benefits of brisk walking, and as early as 2018, researchers from Australia claimed that an average walking pace reduces the risk of early death by 20 percent compared to a slow walk, and a fast walking pace reduces the risk of early death by 24 percent, after calculation Factors such as age, sex, health and economic status and more.
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