I believe that running is good for me. It is a great exercise that will help you burn calories. But it is sometimes can be difficult for certain people especially if you have joint problems or if you are overweight. With that said, running is a great way of losing excess fat.
Running is another thing [...]

I believe that running is good for me. It is a great exercise that will help you burn calories. But it is sometimes can be difficult for certain people especially if you have joint problems or if you are overweight. With that said, running is a great way of losing excess fat.

Running is another thing that reminds me that I can achieve anything that I set my mind to. Friends look at me like I crazy when I say I am going on a ten mile run, but running has increased my physical health, mental endurance, and discipline which I believe helps me in all areas of life. I haven’t done a run like that in awhile and believe me, running is HARD when you haven’t done it for a while!! Especially, like the other day, when it was raining so I went to the gym to run next to a 14-year-old 80-pound girl who had her treadmill set to an 8-minute mile and wasn’t breaking a sweat.

Running is an excellent way to burn calories and strengthen your heart and lungs, but it won’t build muscle mass or strength. Research shows that runners who don’t lift weights lose muscle at the same rate as sedentary people do – about 30 percent from age 30 to 70. It best to use it to burn calories as part of your usual keep fit routine or as a regime to lose weight. How many calories are burned while running depends on various factors such as your weight, miles run, and the intensity of your run.

Be warned however! Running is very hard on knees, ankles, and other joints. Hard impacts repeated about 1000 times per mile produce extreme stress on these joints. And running is even worse for us women. We have wider hips, which naturally give us a significant disadvantage in running.

I love to run, I’ve just decided to tone it down a little as my body gets older and more sore. If you’re not running to compete, either against others or against yourself, or at least for the intrinsic love of the activity, then get in the gym and pump iron. Running is a spiritual journey that tests your mind, body, and soul. All you need is a pair of running shoes, shorts, t-shirt, a positive attitude, and the open road.

It burns more calories than any other cardiovascular exercise. This is also a great way to get abs! Running strengthens heart: for example an inactive person beats 36,000 more times each day than that of a runner.

When starting a running program, start with small changes, and they’ll eventually become larger ones. You don’t have to be perfect every day. Start yourself on a plan, and stick to it. It will be challenging at first and possibly frustrating at times, but in just a few weeks, you will see changes in your body and feel like a new person. Start up tomorrow!

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