One more important overall effect of wellness walking - the normalization of central nervous system's (CNS) functions, to be exact - the balance of excitation and inhibition processes. In the conditions of modern life with high level of emotional stress, excitation is usually prevalent in CNS, which leads to heightened ejection of many stimulating hormones into blood flow. They have harmful influence on the organism and can cause different cardiovascular diseases - from hypertensive crisis to heart attacks and strokes. These diseases always come with neurasthenia, high irritability, anxiety, headaches and sleep disorders - and it's a real scourge of the modern society. Our distant ancestors in case of stress situations, …show more content…
Learning to walk. The basics of wellness training
Fast walking, among with other aerobic exercises, is the basis of wellness training. That's why it has to meet its principles, because otherwise it can cause harm instead of good.
Despite all of the differences, wellness training (such as sport one) features the following basic components, defining its efficiency: the type of exercise, its length and intensivity, the periodicity of the lessons (the number of them during a week) and the length of the relaxation between the lessons.
Let's briefly discuss the basic features of these components of the wellness walking.
The type of exercises
How wellness training influences the organism - firstly, it depends on the type of exercise and the structure of the motion act. All physical activities are divided into two large groups: cyclical and acyclical. The effect of cyclical exercises (such as walking and running) is concentrated on the growth of functional (hidden) abilities of oxygen-transporting system, aerobic productivity, overall endurance and …show more content…
The optimal exercising zone in limited by threshold level at the bottom and maximal level at the top. Optimal exercising for well-prepared athletes with many years of experience is five hours of fast walking every week (five times an hour). Further increasing of this amount is not rational, because it doesn't lead to additional increase of body's aerobic abilities and physical workability. Moreover, it creates danger of cardiovascular overload.
Extreme exercising
It's exercising that exceeds organism's functional abilities. As threshold and optimal, they're different for everyone. For the experienced amateur runner it can be a marathon distance, for the beginning walker - constant one-hour walking. Extreme exercising has negative influence on the organism, leading to long workability decrease and possibly sharpening different diseases, including heart attack.
The periodicity of exercises
The frequence of wellness walking for beginners depends on its duration. Ordinary recommendation is 20-30 min of constant walking in your habitual rhythm three or four times a week. Prepared wellness walking fans can do it five times a week, but no more, keeping two days for relaxing and