WALK WALK WALK….

Walk Walk Walk……

Did you ever see a wild animal suffering with Obesity. Recall any wild animal, be it Fox, Jackal, Tiger, Lion or even elephant. According to their specific genetic configuration they remain in their shape and in weight range of being in Within Normal Limit. Never, we come across with a bird which can be termed as Overweight Bird and will not see it falling from sky, out of their heavyweight. Are the flying birds or walking wild animals lightweight specifically or  human race, on the other hand are overweight and obese. In our breed as well, the Walkers like waiters and servers in hotels restaurants remain lean and thin.

Question is simple and so also the answer. Animals that walk continuously to commute, Birds fly continuously to reach different destinations and food servers in hotels walk to earn their bread, they all remain in shape and within normal limits of weight.

Why?

Domestic animals and food makers in kitchen of hotels become overweight majorly. This has something to do with our profile of moving around as well. Diet patterns is a major concern as we make an oral input and bowel output discrepancy. Ingestion is more, digestion is sluggish and thereby leading to improper evacuation. Does this have a direct relationship with our walking habit.

Slow metabolism also is a major factor which gets you to become sluggish with daily activities and movements. Vehicles to commute, Elevators and unquenchable thirst to show off one’s wealth has led you to be being overweight and obese or hyper-obese and maybe morbidly obese.

What is the way out!

One is ready now to spend enough of money at Obesity Surgery clinics, prolific gymnasium oriented exercises and all possible marketing driven naturopathy approaches. Can one think of simple logic why our grandparents were lean and thin all through their life. They remained happy, healthy and stress free without any rise in their blood pressure and blood sugar till they lived and now half of India is suffering either with high blood pressure or high blood sugar or obesity all  leading a stressful life. Such problems are not there only in urban locality but also in rural areas as well where even farmers are facing this challenge. Oil driven transport facility have reduced our walkable abilities. If its said you need to take 10000 steps by simple walking everyday to remain healthy by means of maintained levels of sugar in blood circulation, blood pressure and stress you will be throwing this idea as junk.

Let’s have an experiment one day as you walk for an hour by clock in your leisure time. The stride length that is the distance between toe to toe in a walking step which is around 75 – 85 CM varying from person to person. If you walk for an hour at a normal pace, you will be covering a distance of around 5 to 6 kms. The steps taken in this walkathon will be more than 6000 and this one hour profile in early morning hour       will give you an enhanced utilization of circulating high sugar for all diabetics. 5 to 6 thousand steps taken at single stretch will let you sweat a little or much, leading to loss of electrolytes from skin and sodium loss in particular will lead to lowering in blood pressure in patients who are suffering with essential hypertension. This sweating leads to all superficial and deep blood vessels to more elasticity which helps in reduction in peripheral resistance which is imposed by the vessel walls. This reduced peripheral resistance helps in lowering of blood pressure. Walking or having a schedule of exercise for more than 30 minutes helps in using deposited fat to be used as energy source. If we try to understand the exercise physiology, in first 2 minute of your walking muscle ATP is the energy source. Next 20 minutes its muscle glycogen is used to provide energy to muscles which are working in group. After that period Sources deposited in Liver as Glycogen are mobilized to come in blood circulation and give energy. Its Beta Oxidation, which mobilizes Fat after 40-45 minutes of walking to provide energy. It’s simple that way, if you want to reduce your body fat, one has to walk or exercise for more than 40 minutes at a stretch. That’s why it always advocated walking for 60 minutes by clock to get good daily results in many body parameters.

While taking time out for working out at your rooftop or in garden or on free roads or on play ground, you actually are exposed to circumferential situations and one can think out of the box to explore very many different visual treats like Flora and Fauna around, sound of bird’s churping of just sound of silence that early in the morning. Apart from this, playful and flying birds, young children playing around & serene greenery all over will catch you not only eyes but your Psyche and soul as well.

Eyes get a soothing feeling and this picturesque presentation lets you calm down and thereby leading  you to stress free. Once addicted to such physical treat of having 5000 to 6,000 walking steps out in the morning hours in the lap of Mother Nature, one will never avoid such a pleasure. Consequently to this hour long, walkathon, the upcoming day gives a prolific agility, proper elasticity and jovial mood all through the day. On an average on every 2000 steps of walking 100 calories are spent. This walking not only enhances the proper circulation through the body but all the joints and accompanying musculoskeletal structures are lubricated. Once 6000 steps in walking are done, very well early in the morning, a pious feeling like jumping through the staircase or going for small and Middle distance will approximate you to 10000 steps in a day. Housewives in a nutshell are a good example as well, as they keep walking in their house only to accomplish household work. A housewife in her active 30 years in homemaking covers a distance of around 30000 km. It’s a big figure if its told that they have been walking in home for household endeavors that comes out to 30 years that is 30000 km and for a day will be calculated as around 3 km per day.

Schedule walking is good and random walking also give the same good results to body. Walking daily will boost the Heart to work in agility. Walking helps to maintain tone of the muscles of Leg. It causes utilization of Fat to provide energy. This leads to Loss of weight which may be slow and insidious but it will last for long. Walking reduces Blood sugar, maintains blood pressure and reduces stress. No one can walk or run with gloomy face and with an off-track mood. Long distance daily walking helps in improvement in hand eye coordination, enhances energy level and decreases the chances of injury. Good results of walking start ensuing in 3 to 6 months. And if you continue to walk on daily basis for year after year you will attain not only longevity but also will remain hearty and healthy.

Walking is the easiest work out demanding no money to be spent. If someone’s knee joints are ailing and painful then in that situation, cycling or swimming is a better option to keep healthy and energetic.