9 Incredible Benefits of Walking

9 Incredible Benefits of Walking

Experts suggest that brisk walking for 30 minutes at a moderate speed can help you burn 150 to 200 calories. And walking isn't all sports shoes and parks. During the day, you can also get up from your desk every hour or so and walk around your office or block for two whole minutes.

And walking isn't all sports shoes and parks. During the day, you can also get up from your desk every hour or so and walk around your office or block for two whole minutes.

1        Less likely to suffer a stroke and other cardiovascular problems

2.      Battle obesity

3.      Drop the pressure

4.      Curb diabetes

5.      Prevent cancer

6.      Exercise can boost your memory

7.      Boost your immunity

8.      Curb stress eating

9.      Good for old age

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Healthy Walking - "8" Shaped Walking Exercise

Walking is one of the best exercises and will maintain good health. We should walk with free mind without any distraction. If it is done properly excellent health will be maintained. In this modern world Morning walk is becoming fashion and many of the people walk chatting with friends in person or through the mobile.

Among the walking exercise best walking exercise is “8 shape walk method.”It is supreme of all. This is one of the best methods which give miraculous benefits as suggested by the Yogis and Siddhars. It should be practiced daily for 15-30 minutes. Only at the time of driving license we think about 8 and drive the vehicle in the 8 shape circle and get license. Driving in the 8 shape line by vehicle we get license. But if we walk in the 8 shape lines, we will maintain good health. We will see the method of 8 walk, how it should be done properly, and what all the benefits are.

Methods of doing “8” shaped walking exercise:

• Practice this in the morning, evening or in empty stomach, in the open or in a room in the north-south direction. Draw a parallel line from east to west or west to east in the north side and leave ten feet gaps and draw 8 shape lines; now practice “8” shaped walking.
• Walk north to south and South to North clockwise and anticlockwise fifteen minutes each.
• Practice “8” shaped walking first and then you may do some simple yogic exercise and breathing exercise.
• During this walk we will necessarily concentrate in walking in the 8 shape line. Possibility of chatting with friends in person or in the mobile like in normal walking is avoided. Proper and normal breathing is possible.
• In our hand palm and leg palm all reflex points of our entire internal organs are located.(See the leg palm picture) Due to the pressure in the palm, at the time of walking (we should walk in the bare foot without shoes/slippers) all our internal organs are activated and we get relief from concerned diseases.
  

Benefits of doing “8” shaped walking exercise:

• During walk in the 8 shape our entire body (hip, abdomen, etc.) is twisted and all our organs are activated.
• At the end of thirty minutes of 8 walking stuffy nose is cleared and feel free breathing from both the nostrils.
• In the mean time we can feel a cough in the lungs and sinus cavity get dissolved. The phlegm is eliminated either by spitting out or getting assimilated into the body and your asthma is reversed.
• As five kilograms of oxygen is inhaled due to complete respiration, phlegm in the lungs is released. The intake of five kilograms of oxygen energizes the body.
• Headache, Digestive Problems, Thyroid, Obesity, and Knee pains, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and constipation is reversed.
• It reduces the sugar level in the blood and reverses your diabetes and its complication within a year of regular 8 walking twice daily for half an hour.
• Improves eye sight. Due to concentration in the 8 shaped lines, short sight and other eye related problems are improved/curtailed.
• Hearing power is improved. Gentle walking reduces the blood pressure.
• Practicing this for half an hour twice a day cures foot crack, all types’ pain and knee pain.
• Aged persons and those who are unable to do this by themselves can do it with the help of others and get benefited even paralysis.
• Shoulder, neck, back, lumbar, knee, heels, cervical and lumbar, spondylitis, sciatica, disc prolapsed, paralysis, depression, epilepsy, a migraine, diabetics, BP, thyroid, kidney and gall bladder stones, asthma, sinusitis, piles, colitis, nervous debility, sleeplessness, Heart diseases, kidney problems are benefited through this “8” walking.
• Practicing this exercise regularly, brings back youth to us, reverses all your diseases And a person of seventy years old may feel that he is young like his grand children.

Happily practice “8” shape walk” and enjoy good health without any disease.

AUTHOR: Prof. Dr. P. Sivagnanam MD.(Acu),DAT.(BSS),DBF(London)

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Step ups easy way to fitness

Author: A Sharma
Email: aseemsharma58@gmail.com

You squat heavy and lunge with weights, but running up a couple of flights of stairs tires you out? You run 4-5 k but walking up a few flights of steps makes you feel like you been through a completely different and complete workout?

Well than you are right climbing stairs is one of the best exercises when you are aiming pure fat burn, toning the butt, lower body strengthening, toning calves, thighs, building great abs, losing inches from those love handles. With these benefits It is good for your lungs and cardiovascular system.

This workout will challenge your body endurance and actual strength Best thing about it is that it is  totally free and just about all of us can get access to a set of stairs.

• It leverages gravity and the heavier we are, the harder we’re forced to work and the more calories we burn.
• It is a relatively intense exercise that quickly increases our heart rate and in doing so can greatly improve our cardiovascular fitness.
• It helps strengthen and shape our most common problem areas like calves, thighs, buttocks and tummy.
• With limited time to workout it is an efficient way to burn calories and burn fat quickly using proper technique it is low impact on the knees also.
• You can mix it with other workouts, like walking, running and weight training, to maximize results and stair climbing workouts are easy to build progression into and it also helps build bone strength because it is weight bearing.

Quality over quantity is the mantra with this exercise Instead of fixing one hour work out in your mind and avoiding it because you don’t have one hour. You can burn more Calories and fat by running or walking up steps for good 30 minutes rather than hours of walk or running.

You Aim for power workouts, 25 to 30 mins max, where you max out your reps, burn those muscles and really get your heart rate up. 35 to 40 minutes should include a great warm up and an extremely important cool down.Start with a couple of flights, Walking and running slowly. As you get better, run and then skip few steps at a time and run or walk.It will raise your heart rate immediately thus maximizing your cardio benefits and it is also a great way to amp your core muscle strength.It engages body’s largest muscle groups to repeatedly lift your body weight up, step after step and engages every major muscle in your lower body glutes, hamstrings, quadriceps, abs and calves to exercise and thus tones and sculpts your body better.

Just a few stairs everyday will give you a good workout and you don’t have to sweat it out while climbing stairs and with that comes safety never try or actually rundown the stairs it doesn’t do any good.

Start doing this regularly and soon, you will be running up flights of stairs, feeling fitter, younger, stronger and leaner.

Which is beneficial for Weight Loss: Run or Walk?

Nowadays people are really concerned about their health and many kept their routine as either walk or run. Walking is really helpful even same as running, however running is not that much easy as walking. So let us discuss which one is more beneficial.

Benefits of Running:

When you are running have to take 2.5 times the energy as walking. When we use more energy, our calorie will burn very fast. If you run at the same pace also, this will be helpful to reduce weight. Moreover, it will helpfully balance your BMI (Body Mass Index) and can control your starving as well. Running is very beneficial exercise, however there few limitations.

Negatives of Running:

When you start running it, can reduce your body weight, but the weight will be reduced from your muscle mass than from your body fat because our muscle are more metabolic than fat. So this will burn more calories from muscles. Running would control your starving, however it will raise the Cortisol level of your body and this hormone will boost your huger. Therefore, you feel that your stomach still empties and will have more food. When Cortisol level increases, it will be affecting level of the hormones T 4. Thus, the energy level will completely decrease, and it may impact the fat reducing ability.

Benefits of Walking:

When you walk regularly, you have zero chances of getting Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, Diabetics and Cardiovascular diseases. If a person burns 500 calories in a day, it can help to lose a pound in a week. So let’s keep an hour every day for walking. If at all you won’t able to manage your time, try doing it whenever you get time. Since we don’t as much as energy for walking, it can be useful for weight training and other exercises.

A matter of Preference:

Walking and running both create opportunities for burning fat, so part of your decision should relate to personal preference. Although running might burn more calories and fat faster, if you dislike running or are only able to run for very short periods, you might exercise less frequently. Committing to regular walking rather than periodic or rare running sessions could make more sense for your fat-burning goals in the long run.