What are the benefits of walking as an aerobic exercise?

Taking a walk is a way for everyone to relax. Although people like to take a walk after a meal because they believe it helps digestion and promotes blood circulation. In fact, walking is a kind of aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise is people's favorite sport because it can help people consume calories and burn excess body fat. Next, let’s take a look at the content of the walk.

Aerobic exercise, as the name implies, is exercise under aerobic metabolic state, which can consume excess body fat and achieve weight loss through exercise. Aerobic metabolism refers to the body's metabolism during exercise. Aerobic metabolism is the main endurance exercise. Aerobic exercise increases the body's oxygen uptake, improves cardiopulmonary function and achieves health effects. Aerobic exercise includes walking (strolling, brisk walking), jogging, playing ball, swimming, climbing, cycling, aerobics, Tai Chi, etc. The characteristics of aerobic exercise are low intensity, rhythmic, intermittent and long duration. Compared with weightlifting, running, high jump, long jump, throwing and other explosive non-aerobic exercises, compared with aerobic exercise, regular exercise can last for more than 5 minutes and still have spare energy.

Many people do aerobic exercise and lose the original effect of aerobic exercise in losing weight.

The ATP energy stored in the human body can only last for 15 seconds. It is all used up after running 100 meters. When running 200 meters, the remaining 100 meters must be quickly synthesized from blood sugar in an anaerobic state. ATP is the byproduct of energy. Running 200 meters, 400 meters, 100 meters, swimming, tennis, football and other sports use the energy provided by anaerobic decomposition of blood sugar, so a large amount of lactic acid accumulates in the muscles. Lactic acid exercise causes muscle pain. The blood sugar required for exercise is provided by starch, so it also burns fat. Aerobic exercise is not good for weight loss.

The energy provided by the anaerobic decomposition of blood sugar (starch) can only last for 40 seconds to run 400 meters. When running 800 meters, the remaining 400 meters must be provided by the aerobic synthesis of new heat energy substance ATP from blood sugar, blood fatty acids and blood amino acids.

The above information is a specific introduction to the fact that people usually take a walk after dinner to relax when they have nothing to do. People only know that walking can relax their mood, make their mood get a certain degree of relaxation, and can also reduce a small part of calories and fat, which can achieve a certain effect on weight loss.