These are the benefits of fast walking
Walking fast improves muscle response, increases caloric intake and facilitates weight control, activates cardiac circulation and generates, decreases cholesterol and glucose levels, contributes to control blood pressure and improves respiratory, intestinal and respiratory functions. sexual.
This has been assured by the specialist in Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation of Polyclinic Guipúzcoa, Eduardo AlegrÃa, who recalled that "it is not the same" to walk normally than to walk fast and that the speed at which it is performed is important to assess the benefits it brings this practice to health.
In fact, several studies, among them research carried out by the University of Sydney (Australia), published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, have shown that increasing the speed at which it could lead could extend life expectancy.
In addition, this study shows that walking at an intermediate pace is associated with a reduction in mortality of 20 percent, while rapid walking reduces the risk to 24 percent. The ideal speed for walking to have the maximum effect on health would be equivalent to traveling every kilometer between 8.5 and 12 minutes.
"This would be like noticing that the pulse is accelerating and the breathing is shaking, without suffocating, but with the feeling that it is difficult to talk, something demanded but not forced," said Dr. AlegrÃa.
Anyway, and although it is shown that doing it faster brings greater benefits, the expert recalled that walking, whether fast or slow, is a "really simple" exercise that helps improve health and feel good.
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