Does walking help you exercise?

Maybe each of us walks a lot every day. In fact, walking is also a way to exercise the body. It’s just that many of us don’t have a clear understanding that walking can bring many benefits to the body and can effectively prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. We must develop a good habit of walking. Let us learn about the benefits of walking exercise.

A hundred exercises are not as good as walking. Walking is the root of a hundred exercises. Walking can definitely exercise the body. Walking can be divided into strolling, brisk walking, race walking and other forms. You can choose the walking method according to your personal physical condition. We recommend you try brisk walking. Brisk walking is a walking exercise that aims to promote physical and mental health and requires posture, speed and time. In layman's terms, it is a fitness exercise between walking and race walking. Its outstanding features are: the method is easy to master and sports injuries are not likely to occur; it is not restricted by age, time and venue, and people of different ages can exercise anytime and anywhere according to their own time; the sports equipment is simple, only a pair of comfortable and fitting shoes are needed, and the cost is low; the speed of brisk walking is the key factor that determines the effect of exercise, and it is usually artificially divided into slow walking, medium walking, fast walking and very fast walking. Slow walking is about 70 to 90 steps per minute, which is equivalent to 3 to 4 kilometers per hour. It is suitable as a warm-up activity before brisk walking, or as an initial exercise for older people with poor physical strength.

Moderate walking speed is about 90 to 120 steps per minute, and brisk walking is 120 to 140 steps per minute, which is suitable for most people; extremely fast walking is more than 140 steps per minute, which is suitable for people with a certain level of physical exercise foundation. Generally speaking, brisk walking should last for 30 to 60 minutes a day, about 3 to 5 kilometers, and 5,000 to 8,000 steps are appropriate. For most people, brisk walking at a speed of more than 120 steps per minute will have a significant exercise effect on the body. Through 3 to 6 months of brisk walking exercises, people with good physical fitness should strive to achieve 10,000 steps per hour, at least 4 to 5 times a week. The purpose of brisk walking exercise is to enable the body to acquire good exercise adaptability and promote physical and mental health. Only by persevering can you obtain and maintain good exercise results.

We all need to understand in detail whether walking is a form of exercise and its benefits, which can help us better improve our physical fitness and avoid the invasion of many unnecessary diseases. At the same time, we can also do some other physical exercises, which are also very good for improving our physical fitness.