For an efficient exercise program it’s important for you to run in the right clothes, shoes should be a half size bigger than your actual size, to give your feet room for wiggling…
That having been said, here are the benefits of jogging:
- Jogging helps prevent hypertension and heart issue
Jogging greatly reduces the risk of developing a lot of diseases, among these diseases is heart disease. This exercise works out your cardiovascular system; this in turn keeps your heart healthy and sound.
Jogging also helps to keep high blood pressure away.
It lowers the LDL or the bad cholesterol, in the blood if you start jogging.
Hypertension is known to have long term effects on your body that could lead to seriously threatening conditions like atherosclerosis and aneurysms if you don’t start now to check it.
- Jogging helps you avoid some cancers
Some researchers believe strongly that jogging is very helpful in preventing some cancers, due to the aerobic nature of the exercise, it achieves this by better oxygenating the entire body whenever we jog.
When cells don’t get an adequate supply of oxygen they tend to mutate more vigorously, often turning harmful. Jogging basically helps supply oxygen to all areas of the body thereby preventing some cancers. - Jogging helps the muscles
Jogging helps new muscle grow and makes old ones stronger and a lot more efficient. Usually the muscle that benefits most from the jog, aside from your heart is the diaphragm.
The diaphragm controls your breathing and is also the muscle that separates the lungs and the heart from the abdominal cavity.
Since it works by contracting and letting the lung draw in air, which would happen a lot during the course of jogging, it gets stronger as a result makes the lung able to cope with strenuous activities.
The legs clearly picks up on the action too. The nature of jogging which is of course gentle means you can complete a large number of low weight extensions with your legs, without getting them to grow massive, but still strengthens them.
- Jogging can help avoid diabetes
Jogging goes a long way in the war against diabetes . Being overweight and living an inactive life usually increase your risk of diabetes. So starting a jogging routine and adopting a healthy lifestyle can help you prevent diabetes. - Jogging helps your brain
The body’s organs greatly benefit from the increase in oxygen driven to them, and although every organ benefits enormously, the most impressive in its improvement is the brain.
Recent experiments have shown jogging helps create new neurons in the brain, neurons are cells found in the brain, and an increase in their number helps the memory and learning capabilities, it also tackles diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease.
The benefits of jogging to the brain also extends to, increased Neuro-plasticity which means the brain is more equipped to adapt to a change like pregnancy.
Jogging also helps your brain increase its cognitive ability, and further releases hormones which improves your mood and also your self-motivation and a whole lot of other psychological benefits.
- Jogging has psychological benefits
Jogging has much more to offer than your scale can show you, after introducing jogging as a regular routine for you, you would definitely notice some positive changes in your psychological health and your energy levels.
Jogging sometimes could be recommended for people suffering from depression or even addiction, but you definitely don’t have to be going through any of these before you notice improvements.
Jogging helps you by causing a state of euphoria, which is known as the runner’s high, which you get after a period of moderate exercising. The feeling is as a result of the release of endorphins.
Jogging also acts as an anti-depressant, it reduces stress, and increases your energy levels, so if your work stresses you out or the kids stress you out, a gentle jog would increase your capability to deal with all those stressful activities.
- Jogging strengthens your immune system
Jogging increases the functionality of the immune system. It makes your body much stronger and better at resisting infections, like the common cold. This doesn’t really apply to marathon runners though, because they exert themselves to the extent of their body being weakened.
This improved immune system is due to the increased physical strength, which makes the filtering devices in the trachea stronger and also increases the production of white blood cells, and the fact that it lowers stress fatigue and depression means your immune is less at risk of being lowered by stress, which could weaken your immune system temporarily.
- Jogging strengthens bones
Jogging not only strengthens your bones, it can also prevent certain bone diseases from forming.
The importance of healthy bones cannot be over stated, because not only does the bone carry your weight; red blood cells are produced by the bone marrow.
Jogging also aids in building stronger and much more flexible joints.
- Jogging helps in weight loss
One of the major reasons people jog is to lose weight . The way cholesterol is burnt in the veins and arteries, that’s the way fat burns in the body as well.
So if you are jogging to lose weight, I advice you take it slow, get good shoes and run on softer surfaces like grass to reduce the pressure to your knees.
You could also couple your jogging routine with a good weight loss diet. - Jogging as an anti-ager
Basically all the health benefits of jogging are all meant to contribute to anti-aging. So after a short period of taking routine jogging exercise you will definitely feel and be in a better state both physically and mentally.
And of course higher energy levels and a positive view to life can help maintain a youthful outlook to life.
More oxygen and blood gets to your skin, keeping it firm and in shape, this results to slowing down wrinkle development.
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