Is Walking is Better Than Running?
If you prefer walking to running, you may feel defensive when surrounded by runners. Stand up with pride. You aren’t “only a walker.” Brisk walking is an excellent moderate-intensity exercise for reducing health risks, building fitness, and assisting in weight loss. Even slower-paced walking to get in your 10,000 steps each day has many benefits. Learn the ways walking is better than running.
Walkers Get Fewer Injuries Than Runners
Walking produces far fewer injuries, the least injuries of any aerobic exercise. Researchers note that up to half of all runners are affected by running injuries each year, most commonly of the knees. It has long been suspected that these injuries, as well as stress from long runs such as marathons, leads to changes that can result in osteoarthritis, especially in the knee.
Excerpted from Very Well Fit
