Matters needing attention in healthy walking

Many people who are busy at work or weak in physical strength will choose walking as the most important way of daily exercise. In fact, walking more is really good for maintaining physical and mental health. But what many people don't know is that there are actually four common problems that need to be paid attention to in time during walking. Otherwise, once you walk incorrectly, you will hurt your body and knees.

1, walking volume

In most people's original ideas, walking is a kind of light-paced exercise, so the intensity of walking is not necessarily too moderate. This excessive one-sided misunderstanding must be corrected in time. In fact, although the body energy consumed during walking is relatively small, the energy carried by the knee joint is still very large. Therefore, walking exercise, like other physical exercises, is not suitable for too much.

In general, it is suggested that we try to control the daily walking volume within 10000 steps. In addition, if fast walking is the main step in the walking process, the daily walking amount can be reduced to 6000 steps. For elderly friends with insufficient hands and feet energy, they can also choose to do the total daily exercise several times, such as exercising 5000 steps after lunch and 5000 steps after dinner.

2. Walking posture

In the process of walking exercise, we should always master the appropriate walking posture in time. If you walk, you must try to keep your upper body standing, and you must not bend over often. When you step forward, you must use the energy of your left and right legs evenly. At the same time, your feet will land first, and then land. If there is a problem with walking posture, it is likely to aggravate knee wear, which is very bad for knee maintenance.

3. Walking places

In order to make walking exercise play a more effective role in strengthening physical fitness, we must pay special attention to the choice of walking places. If the road surface is as dry and flat as possible, it should not be too slippery or bumpy, otherwise it is likely to greatly increase the probability of falls. In addition, the air conditions in walking places must be kept fresh and clean. If you walk in a place with poor air quality index for a long time, it will easily have a serious adverse effect on the physical and mental health of the respiratory system.

4. Time for a walk

In daily life, most people choose to take a walk immediately after a meal because of the phrase "take a hundred steps after a meal and live to ninety-nine", which is actually very undesirable. If you take physical exercise immediately after meals, it is easy to cause indigestion, abdominal pain and abdominal distension due to insufficient blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, if you have a fitness plan after meals, why not wait for half an hour before doing physical activities, which can not only prevent gastrointestinal discomfort, but also accelerate the blood circulation system and promote food digestion, killing two birds with one stone.

These are four important things to pay attention to when walking. For this kind of professional knowledge, walking enthusiasts must pay full attention to it, otherwise, once the physical and mental health is damaged due to wrong walking, it can be said that it is not worth the candle. In addition, it is also necessary to remind everyone that although the intensity of walking exercise is low, warm-up activities should be done in time before long-term walking exercise, and appropriate clothes and shoes must be worn.