I
have been going for morning walk and I do not jog for it’s already in my mind
that jogging may hurt my knees as my body weight is almost 100 kg. At one time,
I was able to reduce it to 92 kg but now my body weight is yo-yo around 95
kg.
Just
read Mr. Junji Takano’s article on “Jogging Secrets Revealed” forwarded to me
by a friend via email.
I
am most interested when I read of what he‘d mentioned, “Jogging
consumes about twice more energy than walking. It means that if you jog slowly
for 20 minutes a day, you can burn as much as 6 kilograms of fats.”
I
tell myself, if I can do this, then I can reduce my body weight to 90 kg. How
nice! So I tried to jog the way Takano described it. Feel so happy, it works.
This
type of jogging that he recommended is an easy slow jogging without using tight
muscles. The following tips are applicable to small schoolchildren to very old
senior citizens as health-building exercise:
1) Square
up.
2) Slightly bend your head forward.
3) Just press your foot forward.
4) Smile and chat while jogging.
5) Jog for about 10 minutes 3 times a day, or
30 minutes
per
day.
According
to Takano, we can run as long and as far as we want without using our
tight muscles. The wonderful thing about slow jogging is we won’t get tired at
all.
All
we have to do is just run slowly. It seems like walking but don’t walk.
Jogging at the speed of walking is the secret!
We are able to jog for 4–5 km per hour.
Another beautiful thing about slow jogging is reducing our stress and won't get
angry easily.
Believe
it or not, slow jogging can help prevent diseases of elderly people such as
Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and of course, it helps increase the learning
capability of young generations.
Well,
for elderly people, our main concern is how to reduce loads to the hip and knee
during slow jogging.
The
answer is simple. Tanako said, “To do this, just keep in mind that the stepping
distance should be short and avoid making loud sound of shoes.”
With
these two simple techniques, our jogging will improve 2 - 3 times better.
Happy
jogging, folks. Remember, it’s slow jogging.