Blog Entry #8

 

Entry #8

The reality of walking

Walking is one of the most frequent activities to move from one place to another, but does walking work for us? Walking is an excellent exercise, and it is present everywhere, but we have many better activities than walking. Being a teenager, this can be easier to get better results. We can change a simple routine for something more demanding or better for our health.

Walking has become an activity that decreases the percentage of people walking each year since there are means of transport that only help to go from one place to another faster. However, when we talk about health issues, it is an excellent exercise for each person. Being able to walk for a while does not help much in health, but what happens in the case of young people? Being a teenager is one of the physical activities that we should do the least since it does not require great intensity because adolescents have a greater body capacity than their bodies can withstand. Everything will depend on your walking time, but there are other alternatives. A study called WHO explains that the guidelines recommend a minimum of 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity per week or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous exercise (or a combination of both). That's anywhere from an hour and 15 minutes to 5 hours. For example, A study from 2013 followed men and women who either ran or regularly walked over six years. They found that runners significantly reduced body mass index (BMI) over walkers over the trial period. The results showed that runners were protected against age-related weight gain while walkers were not. However, there are exceptions to which is better to walk since people with health or physical problems only allow for walking. If you are young and in good health, you should demand more from yourself to gain more health and physical gains faster.

 

Lastly, each person is free to decide what to do and to know what is best for people, always thinking about their health, since that way you will learn how to take the easy or difficult path. Both parts can generate the same exhaustion, which means that walking, which is less intense, could offer the same benefits as high-intensity running if you walk for long enough. Please choose what you like best, or you can have a little more fun since it is better to walk for 15 minutes than not walk at all. We always need an activity that can provide us with better health.