What are the health benefits of hiking?

People will encounter all kinds of troubles in life. Sometimes people will fall into a dead end and can't get out. This is very painful. Emotions and careers are easily frustrated. At this time, you might as well pull yourself out and give yourself a long vacation, such as going hiking outside. This can help you think through many problems and is good for your physical and mental health.

What are the health benefits of hiking?

1. Easy travel and stress relief

I remember reading an article before that said, according to statistics, 70% of a person’s daily stress and worries are caused by travel and transportation! Ah, so if you are a wanderer like me, how lucky you would be - I put on my backpack and start hiking after work every day, listening to my Walkman and walking through Sanlitun village, striding quickly, and taking a few more glances at the fashionable girls around me. After a while, I will be in the subway station and home in a few minutes. It is convenient, economical and pleasing to the eye.

2. Improve the function of human organs

According to medical statistics, walking can lower blood pressure, reduce blood viscosity, strengthen the myocardium and reduce the formation of blood clots.

3. Strengthen muscles and bones

Hiking exercises can exercise the entire skeletal system, stretch tendons, strengthen muscles, move joints, strengthen bones and reduce osteoporosis.

4. Regulate Emotions

As early as his youth, Mao Zedong wrote in his article "The Study of Physical Education" that physical education "strengthens muscles and bones, strengthens will, and regulates emotions." To strengthen muscles and bones, as mentioned earlier, you need to exercise for at least 20 minutes a day, rain or shine. Exercising every day, month after month, year after year, is a test of your will.

5. Alleviate the condition

Hiking exercises can control and alleviate symptoms. For example, diabetic patients have poor utilization of glucose. Walking can increase the body's utilization of glucose, thereby controlling the development of diabetes. The United States once conducted a health follow-up survey on 72,488 nurses and found that those who walked more than six hours a week had a 40% lower incidence of stroke than others.

6. Helps lose weight

Walking for a long time can consume a lot of calories, promote the decomposition of body fat, and supply energy to the body, thereby achieving the purpose of losing weight and maintaining a beautiful body shape.

7. Get close to nature

The longer you stay in the city, the stronger your desire to get closer to nature becomes.

8. Improve Digestion

Walking can enhance the secretory function of the digestive glands, promote regular gastrointestinal motility, increase appetite, and has a good effect on preventing and treating hypertension, diabetes, obesity, habitual constipation and other diseases.

9. Improve work efficiency

Walking in the fresh air outdoors can make the brain's thinking activities clearer and more flexible, which can effectively eliminate mental fatigue and improve learning and work efficiency. According to tests conducted by relevant experts, people who walk three times a week for one hour each time for four consecutive months have sharper reflexes, better vision and memory than those who do not like exercise.

10. Make friends and gain knowledge

When traveling, you will meet many like-minded friends and expand your social circle. During the journey, you will encounter many new things, such as plants, animals, buildings, etc. that you have never seen before, which is endless fun.