Take the first step to marathon
Sep 20, 2005
The MTN marathon is a few weeks away and joggers should start preparing.
The MTN marathon is a few weeks away and joggers should start preparing.
As runners are inspired by competition (trials, championship etc), joggers can find motivation from the need to exercise. Exercises bring physical and mental benefits to counter problems of modern living.
Today’s lifestyle has reduced human physical activity. A person returns home from ‘busy’ work at the end of the day and has no single sweat to account for it.
People no longer walk because vehicles are there.
Phones, the Internet transfer ideas and machines are doing most of the work.
This lifestyle of physical inactivity has detrimental effects on the health and brings ailments such as obesity, diabetes, cardiac dysfunction and high blood pressure. It is worse when it is associated with wrong diet.
The only way forward is doing exercises.
You can choose any activity or sport like swimming, riding, skating, or a gym. Walking or jogging is the easiest and cheapest.
You do not need a sports complex or expensive equipment, just a few things like a pair of jogging shoes, shorts and a vest or T-shirt.
The beauty of jogging is in the expected benefits per time. A 20-minute jog is as valuable as riding a bicycle for an hour, skating for 50 minutes or swimming for 40 minutes.
A good shower after the exercise brings freshness and readiness for a good meal, a relaxed rest or concentration at work.
During jogging, lungs expand for more air; oxygen enters blood; the heart pumps faster and blood circulates to all places in the body, particularly where there is more request for oxygen.
Carbohydrates and fats are combusted by the oxygen for energy and heat, which the body controls through sweat, to maintain a constant temperature. Sweat expels toxic substances, fats and carbohydrates are consumed and stress gets cured or controlled.
Jogging is the practical of the statement mens sana in corpore sano (healthy mind in a healthy body).
The writer is a trainer of Uganda’s long distance
runners Inzikuru, Malinga, Toroitich and Busene
As runners are inspired by competition (trials, championship etc), joggers can find motivation from the need to exercise. Exercises bring physical and mental benefits to counter problems of modern living.
Today’s lifestyle has reduced human physical activity. A person returns home from ‘busy’ work at the end of the day and has no single sweat to account for it.
People no longer walk because vehicles are there.
Phones, the Internet transfer ideas and machines are doing most of the work.
This lifestyle of physical inactivity has detrimental effects on the health and brings ailments such as obesity, diabetes, cardiac dysfunction and high blood pressure. It is worse when it is associated with wrong diet.
The only way forward is doing exercises.
You can choose any activity or sport like swimming, riding, skating, or a gym. Walking or jogging is the easiest and cheapest.
You do not need a sports complex or expensive equipment, just a few things like a pair of jogging shoes, shorts and a vest or T-shirt.
The beauty of jogging is in the expected benefits per time. A 20-minute jog is as valuable as riding a bicycle for an hour, skating for 50 minutes or swimming for 40 minutes.
A good shower after the exercise brings freshness and readiness for a good meal, a relaxed rest or concentration at work.
During jogging, lungs expand for more air; oxygen enters blood; the heart pumps faster and blood circulates to all places in the body, particularly where there is more request for oxygen.
Carbohydrates and fats are combusted by the oxygen for energy and heat, which the body controls through sweat, to maintain a constant temperature. Sweat expels toxic substances, fats and carbohydrates are consumed and stress gets cured or controlled.
Jogging is the practical of the statement mens sana in corpore sano (healthy mind in a healthy body).
The writer is a trainer of Uganda’s long distance
runners Inzikuru, Malinga, Toroitich and Busene