How will your body change if you run regularly?

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Exercising is the key to everyone's sustainable health. One of the most popular physical activities is jogging. Regular jogging will bring your body unexpected changes. Let's learn about the benefits of running.
Video content is professionally consulted by specialist doctor II Vu Tu Nam, Head of Arthroscopic Surgery & Sports Medicine Department, Center for Orthopedic Trauma & Sports Medicine - Vinmec International General Hospital Times City

1. Running is a great way to exercise

According to a study by the Mayo Clinic - a famous American medical center, regular jogging helps to increase life expectancy, specifically "running about 10km per week can increase life expectancy by 3-6 years".
Through improving circulation, running improves the health of vital organs such as the heart and lungs. Not only that, when running, the blood vessels inside the body expand to increase elasticity, keep blood pressure at a stable and balanced level, thereby reducing blood pressure problems. At the same time reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases and strokes
Regular jogging also helps us improve mental health, reduce anxiety and pressure, sleep better, fight depression. Besides, jogging plays an important role in protecting and reducing joint pain and swelling. Regular jogging helps increase bone density, strengthens the muscles and knees, and reduces the risk of fractures due to osteoporosis.

2. Many health benefits from regular jogging

Maintaining a regular jogging habit will give your body positive changes that you do not expect such as:
Running helps to lose weight. Of course, this is one of the biggest and most widespread effects of this activity. In fact, running burns more calories than other physical activities and works the main muscles of the body. This helps you to lose quite a bit of weight. In order to lose weight effectively, it is important to maintain a rhythm of exercise. Jogging every day for about 30 minutes, within 1 to 2 months, your body weight will be significantly improved.
Second, jogging helps to change the appearance. Sounds hard to believe, but it's doable. Our appearance depends mainly on our body structure, specifically the proportions between bones, muscles, internal organs and water.

Regular jogging helps us to increase lean muscle mass and reduce subcutaneous fat, achieving a balance between muscle and fat density. This is an important benefit. Not only that when jogging, the body sweats, the body's toxins will follow it out, the pores are also open, blood circulation is better... So your skin will be healthy, bright and beautiful. smooth stretch.
Finally, regular jogging helps to balance the body. When running, the main muscle group moves including thigh muscles, calf muscles and hip muscles, long-term training will help this muscle group firm, remove excess fat, contribute to a balanced and neat body. than.
For the abdomen - the most difficult area to burn fat on the body, regular jogging combined with separate exercises will help reduce excess fat, clarify abdominal muscles. When jogging, it will need the activity of the whole body muscle groups, in addition to toning the muscles in the legs, it also helps to burn calories and reduce excess fat in the abdomen. If you persevere, having a toned body, "hourglass", "six pack" is no longer difficult for you.
The benefits that regular jogging brings to your body as well as your mind are indisputable. However, do you know how to run correctly, safely, and bring maximum benefits to your body? Like other forms of physical exercise, before running, you need to warm up to help joints, tendons and muscles become more flexible, reducing the risk of cramps and injury.
Prepare the correct running posture, standing upright, arms folded into a right angle, hands half-closed. The body is kept in a straight line. Should land with the front of the foot will help reduce pressure on the joints better.
Especially when running, you pay attention to your breathing. Keeping a steady breathing rate helps the body to be more stable and supple, avoiding the situation that just running a few steps is "out of breath"
Pay attention to the training time, too little exercise and low intensity will not bring it to you. effective as expected. However, if you exercise too much, it will be harmful to health. For people with a medical history or overweight, it is advisable to consult a doctor to avoid excessive activity, which has an adverse effect on the body. And most importantly, to get the most out of running, you need persistence. If you quickly feel bored after just a few days and give up the training, the effect will not be high.

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