Slow jogging

It’s a simple form of physical activity that can help to improve physical and mental health when done wisely as well as be good to relieve tension and improve mood.

Not everyone is keen on jogging, of course, and there is nothing wrong in it, there is no point in making anybody practice the sport they will not enjoy. However, some people would like to join the runners, but they are not sure (which is often right) if this activity is appropriate for them.

Among those there are senior citizens, obese people, people who are far from good condition for a variety of reasons, and even if they tried it, their efforts ended up in sudden HR increase, were short of breath or at least they were anxious and got discouraged from jogging for long.

You can try a much easier version of jogging – slow jogging! Slow jogging has as many benefits as regular jogging has, but it’s not that hard for the body. Slow jogging is jogging at the least possible pace. You neither chase yourself nor other people. Enjoy your pace and the fact that you are moving.

You can talk freely as the pace doesn’t cause breathlessness. According to professor Hiroaki Tanaka, the director of the Department of Exercise Physiology at Fukuoka, Japan the panacea for many contemporary complaints of humans is physical activity performed every day for 30 to 60 minutes at the pace that allows you to enjoy it.

For many of us sport is related to sweating rather than pleasure –
says prof. Hiroaki Tanaka who is a precursor and propagator of slow jogging and has been popularizing for many years among Japanese people. It turns out that we lose twice as much calories during slow jogging than during walking! To burn 200-300 kilocalories we have to go for quite a long walk (7-10 km).
Slow jogging even at a walking pace will help us burn the same number of calories just after 3,5-5 km!
(citing www.fitsenior.pl)

Slow jogging:

• run so slowly that you won’t be short of breath, don’t worry that strollers are overtaking you,
• always land on your midfoot,
• run straight, but relaxed,
• breathe easily with your mouth slightly open,
• keep smiling.

Slow jogging has more and more supporters all over the world.
Give it a try!