Walking & Fitness

[LewWagner]

Here's a great on-line article about the positive benefits of walking.

http://news.yahoo.com/walking-superfood-fitness-experts-090810190.html

Thought the walkers in our community might find this of interest.

Lew

[WendyB]

Thanks for the article. Was a great read!

[Dominique · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the link! I've been wondering about this: "It [walking] is less beneficial for bones than running". Why is that? Does the higher impact from running make your bones stronger?

[LewWagner · Accepted solution]

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@Dominique wrote:

Thanks for the link! I've been wondering about this: "It [walking] is less beneficial for bones than running". Why is that? Does the higher impact from running make your bones stronger?

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Don't know, Dominique.  Just passing the article along for discussion and an FYI.

I love running and now that I am slowly getting back into it, My knee joints are a little more "achey" than before, but perhaps that is from all the additional mileage I've been putting in over the past couple of weeks.

Lew

[Heybales · Accepted solution]

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@Dominique wrote:

Thanks for the link! I've been wondering about this: "It [walking] is less beneficial for bones than running". Why is that? Does the higher impact from running make your bones stronger?

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Exactly.

Same way muscle must be pushed to the limits to feel the need to build more (if eating level allows it), so also building bone density back up.

I'll bet if you started with it at a high level, and diet never caused issues with enough calcium and absorbtion, that walking enough could probably maintain it.

But who gets tested that finely to know if that's the case, and how long to wait to discover it was or was not enough, and then what to get bone density back if it wasn't.

But you gotta walk hard and long. I've seen many walk so smoothly, they probably have the bone density of pro-cyclists and grandma's.