One Major Side Effect of Sitting on the Couch Too Much, Says New Study
One Major Side Effect of Sitting on the Couch Too Much, Says New Study
Everyone knows that leading a sedentary lifestyle won t do your body any favors. Forgoing your daily run or HIIT session, not treating yourself to long and healthy walks, or simply not moving around in any meaningful way are just some of the shortest and surest paths to weight gain, enduring back and shoulder pain, eventually developing heart disease and diabetes, and per recent research published in the
Journal of Sports Sciences poor mental health that could spiral into depression.
Experts Reveal the Secret Tricks for Walking for Exercise
Experts Reveal the Secret Tricks for Walking for Exercise
Walking isn t just a great way to improve your blood flow, feel better, and burn a few extra calories every day. If you re making the right decisions when you go out you re walking faster, you re changing your terrain, you re mixing up your routes, and you re striving to walk farther and improve each and every time walking is a wonderful low-impact and moderate-intensity exercise activity that comes with a range of benefits to your body. (For more on what those are, see here for What Happens to Your Body When You Walk More.)
Doing This While Walking Helps You Beat Stress, Say Experts
Doing This While Walking Helps You Beat Stress, Say Experts
According to a report published earlier in the year by
The Wall Street Journal, walking in nature comes with a range of added benefits. Spending time in the woods a practice the Japanese call forest bathing is strongly linked to lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress hormones and decreased anxiety, depression and fatigue, observed the
WSJ. And given that nature is such a profound antidepressant, it would only make sense that going for a walk with your therapist instead of speaking to them indoors or on Zoom would result in enhanced therapeutic benefits, as well. Turns out, many experts say it does.
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