The underestimated power of just walking around
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Walking, the neglected effects…
The calming effect of walking is underestimated,
Add this to the fact that walking is actually easy to do, and going outside to have a walk doesn’t cost money!
Outside walks are one of the best ways to create a calming effect on our system; the outside air and the close contact with nature are tremendous in rearranging our system. The smells, the sounds, the wind, and the natural movement of walking get us back at old-skool homeostasis level, something we often lack these days.
Homeostasis is best explained as the physiological rest state (balance) of our endocrine system. Any automated process by which an organism tends to maintain stability while adjusting to conditions that are best for its survival could be categorized as the understanding of homeostasis.
When walking regularly, you will likely get more toned or lose weight a little. Lowering BMI levels has proven to be one of the best things to do for your health; it will cause you to regulate food intake better, sleep better, and achieve an overall feeling of well-being which will serve you in other aspects of your life as well.
“Start walking to shift your mental state from negative to positive.”
To get you motivated a bit, often misunderstood is the fact that we need to run and almost drop to death to lose weight or fat.
Walking is an aerobic exercise, 100m sprint is more anaerobic.
That means that when walking and consuming and being able to keep talking or breathing normally throughout your nose, you are mainly performing an aerobic exercise that will use most of your fat stores as energy.
When you are experiencing more difficulties for breathing, and your walking starts to transfer into running, you are likely to hit your anaerobe threshold, which will cause you to breathe through your mouth more often.
Passing this threshold, we are gradually shifting the source of energy our body consumes from fat stores toward the locations where carbohydrates are stored.
