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Have you been thinking about her for a long time, but every time you put it off until tomorrow? Are you looking for a new reason to abandon your plans? Amuse yourself with self-deception? WDay.ru decisively puts an end to a series of endless questions and names six reasons why you need to go jogging immediately.
Reason # 1 – it’s very easy
Jogging is essentially fun. Only well thought out, verified and … useful! And how many useful fun we have in our life? You feel that you are doing something important, but at the same time music is thundering in your ears, the world is sweeping by with amazing speed, and passers-by are looking after you with interest. Maybe they envy?
Running shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Excessive criticism, perhaps, should be shown when choosing a pair of good sneakers and a comfortable sports bodice. Everything else is a deal. Including your physical form, which after several runs (after several, not after one!) Will sharply “recover”.
Cycling or exercising will burn fewer calories than running.
Reason # 2 – a lot of calories are burned
You probably think that you can burn tons of calories in other ways. For example, riding a bike or doing exercises. But, if you are at ease with mathematics, you should get acquainted with the numbers, which came to scientists from the Medical Center in Wisconsin.
A person burns in an hour:
- jogging – 705-865 calories;
- rowing a kayak – 606-739 calories;
- running up the stairs – 637-746 calories;
- cross-country skiing – 595-678 calories;
- Cycling – 498-604 calories.
What more proof do you need?
Want your knees to thank you? Go for a regular run and don’t get fat.
Reason # 3 is the fate of your joints.
You shouldn’t listen to your mom who insists that frequent jogging will destroy your joints. As you know, osteoarthritis (the most common type of arthritis) is always associated with deformation of bone tissue and can be initiated by many factors, the main of which is overweight. Therefore, 80% of women suffering from arthrosis are obese and inactive.
Want your knees to thank you? Go for a run. During running, not only extra calories are burned, but also vasodilation (and filling them with oxygen) occurs. Oxygen protects the blood from the effects of various harmful microorganisms.
Running can help deal with not only the first signs of anxiety, but even severe depression.
Reason # 4 – anti-stress
“Inveterate” runners can tell hundreds of jokes and always look very optimistic – as if there are no problems at all in their life. However, problems happen to all people, but they only treat them differently: someone starts to have terrible stress, and someone … wakes up while jogging!
The University of Georgia has done a lot of research and found that many women think about their affairs, actions, work issues on a daily hour of jogging. After conducting several experiments, scientists have come to the conclusion that running can deal with not only the first signs of anxiety, but even with severe depression. Moreover, the best moral result can be achieved while jogging in the countryside.
Heart disease, diabetes and even commonplace flu in most cases bypasses people who pay serious attention to sports.
Reason # 5 – Say No to Diseases
Most experts agree that regular jogging reduces the risk of cancer problems, including the worst diseases – breast, uterine and lung cancer. One of the British medical journals was able to calculate that among people leading an active lifestyle (5-6 hours of sports per week) there are 24 percent fewer cancer patients than in the “least active” group (30 minutes of sports per week).
Heart disease, diabetes and even commonplace flu in most cases bypasses people who pay serious attention to sports. It is also very rare to see runners with vision problems. Regular jogging reduces the risk of developing myopia.
Running can help you live a longer, happier life.
Reason # 6 – You Will Live Longer
Perhaps the most amazing study in the world came from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Several hundred elderly people were selected for the experiments – 538 runners and 423 healthy non-runners. The study was conducted from 1984 to 2005. Old people were simply encouraged to do many common things, from opening a carton of milk to washing their hair.
Each year, each of the participants in the experiment answered the questions of the questionnaire, in which he explained which of these tasks he continued to do and which he could no longer. The lead, you guessed it, was a group of runners.
But the most interesting (albeit saddest) thing was that by the end of the experiment, 85 percent of the runners were still alive, while from the other group, far from sports, only 66 percent of the elderly were alive.