The best way to exercise

The purpose of exercise is to enhance the body's endurance and resistance, making people healthier and stronger. However, different exercises have different effects on the human body. Although some exercises that increase speed or increase muscle can make people strong in a short period of time, they will cause certain damage to people's body functions in the future. As for the best exercise, it is walking.

Walking, in the eyes of most people, means the same thing as strolling. Even when you are old, you can still reap the benefits of strolling. What's more, walking won't damage your joints. Other ways to increase your endurance include swimming, golf, skiing, skating, hiking, tennis, squash, cycling, tai chi, dancing, and other aerobic exercises.

The health benefits of walking can definitely not be replaced by golf, bowling, or swimming. Walking exercises should be carried out according to your own physical signs, that is, different physical signs should adopt different walking methods, so that it can be effective for the symptoms. For example, ordinary walking (60 to 90 steps per minute, 20 to 40 minutes each time) is suitable for elderly patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension, sequelae of cerebral stroke or respiratory diseases, and severe arthritis; fast walking (90 to 120 steps per minute, 30 to 60 minutes each time) is suitable for patients with chronic arthritis, gastrointestinal diseases and hypertension in the recovery period; back walking (place the backs of both hands on the kidney points, slowly walk backward 50 steps and then forward 100 steps, repeat 5 to 10 times) is suitable for healthy elderly people; swinging arm walking (swinging both arms back and forth vigorously) can enhance the activities of the shoulder joints, elbow joints, thorax and other parts. Walking 60 to 90 steps per minute is suitable for patients with gastritis and arthritis of the upper and lower limbs, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, etc.

Choosing different walking methods according to different physical conditions can not only play an exercise role, but also make people's lives more enriched. As for the choice of walking distance and walking speed, appropriate changes should be made according to different exercise effects to make exercise more scientific and effective. Walking also has a good effect on the treatment of patients with obesity and insomnia, but it requires long-term persistence.