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| What are the benefits of walking? Benefit from the cardiovascular system |
The benefits of walking for the elderly
1. Can maintain the flexibility of the joints, while enhancing the tension and elasticity of the waist muscles and ligaments, is a good way to prevent premature stiffness of the limbs.
2. Good for the cardiovascular system. It can accelerate the circulation of blood, increase the tension of blood vessels, and wash away the deposits on the blood vessel wall, which can effectively prevent various cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis.
3. Can make the whole body muscles contract periodically, help blood and lymph circulation, accelerate the metabolic process, improve the body immunity.
4. Can greatly improve the labor rate of mental and intellectual, and help to change the impetuous character and enhance the ability to adapt to various environments and things.
5. For obese old people, it is a safe and cost-effective weight loss therapy. Experts have calculated that if the speed is 5 or 3 kilometers, it can consume 4 or 8 calories per minute.
