WALKING IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED ... FOREVER. AND NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH AS TO ITS DETRIMENT.
DONT GET ME WRONG. WALKING IS GREAT FOR TODDLERS. LOL. THOSE WHOM ARE SO YOUNG, WALKING IS IN FACT .... DIFFICULT AND PROVIDES POSITIVE MUSCULAR AND ANATOMICAL EXERCISE STIMULI.
HOWEVER, FROM 4 YEARS OLD ON, GUESS WHAT ? YOU'RE WALKING. AND FOR SOME REASON PEOPLE THINK THE FIRST EXERCISE OF YOUR LIFE IS APPLICABLE........................... FOREVER. WELL, IT ISNT. OR SHOULD I SAY, " NO SURPRISE ? "
OH YES. THERE ARE THOSE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES JUST LIKE WITH ANABOLIC STEROIDS, STRUCTURED AND CLEVERLY WORDED AND CRAFTED TO PRODUCE THE INTENDED RESULT OF THE STUDY BY THOSE WHOM PAID FOR THE STUDY TO BE UNDERAKEN TO BEGIN WITH.
I MEAN, IF YOU ARE INTENDING TO PROVE THAT WALKING BENEFITS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DUE TO SYSTEMIC CIRCULATOIN YOU CANT GO WRONG, CAN YOU ?
OR THAT IT HAS CARDIO BENEFITS. YEP IT SURE DOES. NO KIDDING.
OR THAT IN COMPARISON TO SEDENTARY INDIVIDUALS WALKING IS REALLY GREAT ! ANY SURPRISE ? NO.
HOWEVER, LET US ANALYZE AS TO THE REAL TRUTH OF WHAT WALKING DOES AND DOES NOT DO.
THE PROBLEM WITH WALKING IS WHEN YOU EVALUATE WALKING IN COMPARISON TO THOSE WHOM DO NOTHING.
KIND OF LIKE, ITS BENEFICIAL TO CHANGE YOUR MOTOR OIL IN CONTRAST TO THOSE WHO DONT. THIS IS JUST COMMON SENSE.
ITS BEEN FOUND THAT THOSE WHOM DONT DRIVE INTO TREES LIVE LONGER. GEE THANKS ! I COULDNT FIGURE THAT OUT !
SO WHEN WE EVALUATE WALKING, IT IS ALWAYS EVALUATED AGAINST DOING................. NOTHING OR DOING SOMETHING THAT TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, POUNDS THE HECK OUT OF YOUR BODY AND JOINTS. KIND OF LIKE, RACQUETBALL, RUGBY OR FOOTBALL.
OK SO NOW, LETS GET DOWN TO THE DETAILS....
AS YOU AGE, IT IS CRITICAL THAT YOU DO LOAD BEARING EXERCISE TO KEEP YOUR BONES AND MUSCLES FROM ATROPHY. OSTEOPOROSIS AND SARCOPENIA, RESPECTIVELY.
WALKING IS NOT A LOAD BEARING EXERCISE UNLESS IF YOU ARE COMPARING IT TO WALKING ON THE MOON OR IN OUTERSPACE.
LOL.
SO RIGHT HERE, YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM.
SO WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE RUNNING ? RUNNING IS SINCE THE POUNDING OF RUNNING PROVIDES THE ADDITIONAL LOAD. HOWEVER, NOW YOU ARE WEARING OUT YOUR JOINTS SO THAT ISNT GOOD EITHER. OF COURSE THERE IS ALWAYS RUNNING IN THE SAND OR ON SOFT TRAILS ENABLING LOAD BEARING WHILE HELPING TO PROTECT THE JOINTS.
BUT IM NOT WRITING TO CONVINCE YOU TO STOP RUNNING. THIS TOPIC IS TO CONVINCE YOU TO STOP................. WALKING !
WHEN I WAS AS YOUNG AS 20 YEARS OLD I HAD THE COMMON SENSE TO SAY, " WHEN I GET TIRED RUNNING, I WALK. WHEN YOU GET TIRED WALKING, YOU HAVE TO SIT. " - AND THEREIN LIES THE SIMPLE GENIUS OF COMMON SENSE
NOT ONLY IS WALKING NOT LOAD BEARING IT DOES NOT BENEFIT LUNG VOLUME UNLESS IF YOU ARE COMPARING WALKING TO DOING.... ZERO OF WHICH ISNT HARD TO BEAT, IS IT ?
SINCE I HAVE SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST, HERE IT IS.....
THE SEVERE PROBLEM WITH WALKING IS THAT IT CHANGES. I REPEAT. CHANGES THE FIBER OF YOUR LEGS TO TYPE 1 MUSCLE FIBER WHICH IS SLOWER, WEAKER AND SMALLER THAN TYPE 2B, 2A AND TYPE 2A/1.
OF WHICH AS YOU AGE, IS A CRITICAL ISSUE SO THAT YOU ARE NOT CONFINED TO A WALKER OR WHEELCHAIR.
NOTE : PREVIOUS SCIENCE WAS FIBER TYPE CANNOT BE CHANGED. WELL, OF NO SURPRISE TO ME, WITH THE HUMAN BODY BEING SO ADAPTABLE, YES IT CAN. THAT IS THE NEW SCIENCE. DUH DUH DUH. UNFORTUNATELY, DUH IS CLEAR WITH EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE. SOMETHING I DIDNT HAVE AS MUCH OF 35 YEARS AGO LIKE I DO TODAY SO I JUST.... WELL... BELIEVED THE NONSENSE PRESENTED AS BEING TRUE BACK THEN. NOWADAYS IM MORE SKEPTICAL.
SOMETHING THAT ALMOST ALWAYS HAPPENS AT SOME POINT IS THAT PEOPLE DO NOT STAY ON THEIR WORKOUT ROUTINE WHICH IN THIS CASE IS.............. WALKING AND THIS IS WHERE THE DEVIL REARS ITS UGLY HEAD.
IF YOU EVER STOP WALKING, YOU NOW, UNLIKE BEFORE YOU STARTED WALKING WITH YOUR BLEND OF VARIOUS FIBER TYPES FOR STRENGTH AND SIZE, YOU NOW ARE LEFT WITH......... MUSCLE FIBER THAT IS SMALLER, WEAKER AND SLOWER. WORSE OFF THAN YOU WERE TO BEGIN WITH.
EVEN IF YOU NEVER STOPPED WALKING, THE MATTER IS YOU PUT NOTHING IN RESERVE. NO MONEY IN THE BANK SO TO SPEAK. PEOPLE SPEAK OF INSURANCE. PEOPLE SPEAK OF RESERVE. A SAVINGS.
WELL, WHEN YOU WALK AND CANT WALK ANYMORE, YOU ARE NOW IMMOBILE. IMMOBILE SINCE YOU HAD NO STRENGTH RESERVE.
YOU INCREASED YOUR WALKING MILEAGE AS YOUR MITOCHONDRIA IMPROVED AND YOUR MUSCLES SHIFTED TO TYPE 1. YOU THINK IMPROVEMENT. WHILE I KNOW... BIG PROBLEM.
FUNNY, IN YOUR LIFE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO WALK 3 MILES. MORE LIKE 900 FEET MAX.'.
SO YOU ESSENTIALLY TRAINED YOUR BODY FOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY YOU CANNOT AND DO NOT EVER USE.
WHAT YOU DO USE IS MUSCLE FOR BEING ABLE TO GO FROM YOUR CAR TO THE STORE AND BACK FOR INSTANCE. A DISTANCE OF NOT MORE THAN ABOUT 900 FEET.
YOU ARE NOW LEFT ONCE AGAIN WITH MUSCLES THAT ARE SLOWER, SMALLER AND WEAKER THAN YOU EVEN STARTED TO BEGIN WITH. INAPPLICALE, UNUSABLE AND MODIFIED TO AN ACTIVITY THAT IS
USELESS.
NOW LETS TAKE A LOOK AT HOW YOU DO THIS RIGHT.
YOU MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS RESISTANCE AND LOAD BEARING WITHOUT UNDUE STRESS UPON YOUR JOINTS OR SPINE.
YOU EXERCISE WITH INTERVALS OF APPROXIMATELY 90 - 120 SECONDS ON WITH 30 SECOND BREAKS, GEARED TOWARDS AEROBIC ENDURANCE WHILE TRAINING STRENGTH, AND BREATHING DEEPLY FOR LUNG BENEFITS.
EVEN IF YOU GO FURTHER THAN 120 SECONDS, YOU MAINTAIN A SIGNIFICANT STRENGTH COMPONENT SUCH AS WHEN I HIKED 6 MILES WITH TWO 20 POUND PLUMBING PIPES, DRIVING WITH THEM LIKE CROSS COUNTRY SKIIS. EVEN THEN, I BREAKED EVERY HALF MILE OR SO TO DRINK WATER.
MOST OF THE TIME, FOR THE LOWER BODY, I WALK IN THE SOFT SAND, DRAGGING 70 POUNDS WITH A WAIST HARNESS.
I DO 70 - 90 STEP INTERVALS, TAKE A BREAK FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS AND HIT IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
I WALK UP AND DOWN STEPS WITH ALMOST NO BREAK AT ALL. 4 FLIGHTS UP, 4 DOWN WITH NO HAND WEIGHTS AND THEN DO IT AGAIN WITH 25 POUND WEIGHTS AND THEN 45 POUND WEIGHTS. SO 50 AND 90 POUNDS RESPECTIVELY.
WHAT IS KEY HERE IS THAT I AM TRAINING TYPE 2B FIBER WHEN I STEP EXPLOSIVELY THOUGH GRANTED MY ROUTINE IS CENTERED TOWARDS MORE OF A 2A AND 2A/1 STIMULATION. ONE OF ENDURANCE AND STRENGTH COMBINED.
WITH THIS PROTOCOL MY RESERVE IS INCREDIBLE.
WHEN ONE DAY I AM TOO OLD TO DRAG 70 POUNDS, I CAN DRAG 60, 50, 40, 30 ETC.
WHEN I CAN NO LONGER WALK STEPS WITH 45 POUND PLATES, I CAN DO SO WITH 35, 25 AND THEN 10 BEFORE I CAN ONLY WALK WITH MY OWN BODY WEIGHT.
YOU ON THE OTHER HAND, WHOM TRAINED SOLELY TYPE 1 WITH LITTLE RESISTANCE ON FLAT GROUND HAVE NO RESERVE WITH FIBER THAT IS SLOWER, SMALLER AND WEAKER THAN TYPE 2B, 2A, AND 2A/1. YOU DID NOTHING TO IMPROVE LUNG VOLUME EITHER SINCE YOU NEVER HAD TO BREATHE TOO HARD.
MOREOVER, WITH MY TRAINING PROTOCOL I HAVE PRESERVED MY STRENGTH FIBERS WHILE STILL HITTING THE ENDURANCE , ENSURING THAT IF I EVER HAVE TO STOP AND RE START AGAIN IN MY LIFE, I DID NOT ALTER ANY TYPE 2B, 2A OR 2A/1 INTO BECOMING TYPE 1. HENCEFORTH, MY HARD WORK PAID OFF WITH MASSIVE RESERVE EVEN IF I HAD TO BE SEDENTARY SINCE I HAD STOPPED WHEN I HAD " MONEY " IN THE BANK WHEREAS YOU HAD WITH YOUR WALKING, NO RESERVE BUT MITOCHONDRIA PROLIFERATION AND CARDIO OF WHICH WITHOUT THE MUSCLE STRENGTH TO ENABLE ENDURANCE WORK TO OCCUR IS UNFORTUNATELY................. USELESS.
THERE IS NO ENDURANCE WORK WITHOUT SUFFICIENT STRENGTH TO BEGIN WITH SO YOUR MITOCHONDRIA AND CARDIO ONCE AGAIN ARE NOW WORTHLESS. MOREOVER, AS YOU AGE, YOU ARE LOOKING TO BE ABLE TO BE MOBILE FOR REASONABLE DISTANCES. EVEN SMALL DISTANCES. TO HAVE THE STRENGTH TO DO SO OF WHICH YOU DID NOT TRAIN FOR AND HAVE NO RESERVE STRENGTH TO TAP SINCE YOU RUINED IT BY ALTERTING YOUR FIBERS UPON AN ACTIVITY OF WHICH YOU WILL NEVER USE IN DAILY LIFE.
SO HERE YOU ARE, THINKING YOU JUST WALKED 3 MILES RATHER THAN 1 MILE AND ARE NOW STRONGER WHEN YOU ARE NO STRONGER AT ALL. A SYMPTOM OF A HUMAN WITH MODIFIED MUSCLE FIBERS UPON AN ACITIVTY THAT IS USELESS TO THE DEMANDS OF REAL LIFE. UNLESS YOU PLAN ON DITCHING YOUR CAR AND WALKING, YOUR 3 MILE WALK AT THE FLAT TRACK AT THE PARK WILL NOT APPLY TO WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING IN YOUR LIFE.
WHAT ABOUT SPRINTING ? IN SPRINTING YOU ARE STRENGTHENING YOUR TYPE 2B AND 2A FIBERS. BIG DIFFERENCE.
HOWEVER THE BEST BENEFITS UPON THE LUNGS AND CARDIO ARE WITH THE STRENGTH / ENDURANCE WORK.
WHAT ABOUT HIKING ? WELL IF YOU ARE ACTUALLY CLIMBING UP MOUNTAINS LIKE THAT WHICH EXIST OUT WEST, BIG DIFFERENCE. EVEN STILL, IT IS ADVISABLE THAT YOU HIKE WITH WEIGHTED STAFFS TO ADD WEIGHT UPON YOUR ARMS AND LEGS. WHEN HIKING, YOU ARE PROBABLY CARRYING GEAR TO BEGIN WITH WHICH IS LOAD BEARING AND BENEFICIAL.
IN THESE SITUATIONS OF WEIGHTED RESISTANCE, EVEN IF YOU DONT BREAK, YOU ARE STILL HITTING THE TYPE 2A/1, 2A AND IF TYPE 1, YOUR MUSCLES WONT SHIFT DUE TO THE ADDED STRESS TO PRESERVE THE STRENGTH FIBERS OF 2A 2B AND 2A / 1.
NOTE ; IF YOU ARE SPENDING TIME PUTTING WEIGHT DOWN UPON YOUR SPINE SUCH AS HIKING WITH BACKPACK AND OR CLIMBING STAIRS WITH WEIGHTS, DO SETS WHERE YOU ARE HANGING FOR 30 SECONDS AT A TIME TO STRETCH OUT YOUR SPINE. EVEN JUST 4 SETS OF 30 SECOND HANGS PER DAY CAN MAKE A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN SPINAL HEALTH.
EVEN IF YOU ARENT PUTTING DOWNWARD WEIGHT UPON YOUR SPINE, HANGING EACH DAY IS VERY BENEFICIAL FOR THE LONG TERM HEALTH OF YOUR SPINAL DISCS.
WHAT IF I DO STRENGTH TRAINING WITH WALKING UPON THE LOWER BODY ?
AH HA. WELL NOW, EVEN THOUGH WE DONT HAVE DIRECT TASK BENEFIT TO PRESERVE THE ABILITY TO WALK, WE STILL HAVE EXERCISE THAT PRESERVES AND IMPROVES TYPE 2A/1, 2A AND 2 B MUSCLE IF DONE PROPERLY.
BY DIRECT TASK BENEFIT WHAT I MEAN IS TRAINING HAS TO BE SPECIFIC. SO THE BEST WAY TO TRAIN WALKING IS THE WALKING MOVEMENT. THIS IS WHY PLATE PULLING AND UPHILL WALKING IS SO BENEFICIAL.STAIR CLIMBING AS WELL. THOUGH WITH THE INVENTION OF ELEVATORS AND MANY HOMES BEING ONE LEVEL, YOU MAY NEVER NEED TO DO SO AS YOU AGE.
THE BIG PROBLEM WITH WALKING IS WITH THOSE WHOM ONLY WALK AND THERE ARE TONS OF THESE PEOPLE. MILE AFTER MILE, IGNORING THEIR UPPER BODIES TOTALLY, WHICH NOT ONLY DOESNT GUARD AGAINST OSTEOPOROSIS OR SARCOPENIA, IN CASE YOU FALL THE ODDS OF BREAKING A BONE OR HAVING A JOINT INJURY IS ALSO GREATLY INCREASED. FURTHERMORE, THE BENEFIT OF CARDIO IS MORE THAN THE HEART ALONE. BY TRAINING THE ENTIRE BODY AEROBICALLY OR AT LEAST MOST OF IT, YOU IMPROVE THE OVERALL EFFICIENCY OF OXYGEN USAGE VIA MITOCHONDRIAL BENEFIT. THIS IS WHY ATHLETES WHOM CONDITION THE ENTIRE BODY SUCH AS CROSS COUNTRY SKIIERS HAVE A SUPERIOR LEVEL OF CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONING THAN RUNNERS AND CYCLISTS.
WALKING IN ITSELF CREATES ANOTHER PROBLEM AND THAT IS THE RISK OF FALLING. PARTICULARLY IN THE WINTERTIME.
WHILE FALLING FOR ME ISNT A PROBLEM, FOR THOSE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CONDITIONING THEIR ARMS AND SHOULDERS A FALL CAN BE VERY HARMFUL.
MOREOVER, FALLS UPON A PERSON THAT HAS NOT BEEN CONDITIONING THEIR CORE MUSCLES SUCH AS ABS, TRANSVERSE ABS, OBLIQUES AND SPINAL ERECTORS HEIGHTENS THE RISK OF SPINAL INJURY AS WELL SINCE THEMUSCLES TO STABILIZE IT ARE UNABLE TO PROTECT FROM THE FALL. IN ADDITION, INJURIES UPON JOINTS AND MUSCLES THEMSELVES OCCUR FROM UNEXPECTED FORCES OF WHICH THE BODY IS NOT ACCUSTOMED TO. A SUDDEN FORCE UPON AN OBLIQUE CAN STRAIN OR TEAR THE OBLIQUE THAT IS NOT CONDITIONED. FURTHERMORE, EVEN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS NOT CONDITIONED TO QUICKLY REACT UPON UNCONDITIONED MUSCLE .
QUITE SIMPLY, ITS A PERFECT STORM WAITING TO HAPPEN.
NOT TO STOP HERE, A FALL UPON THE HIP IS COMMON AND QUITE FRANKLY, THE HIP IS THE CORE OF THE WHOLE MIDDLE STRUCTURE OF YOUR BODY TO BEGIN WITH. WALKING EXERCISES THE FRONT TO BACK MOVEMENT WHILE DOING NOTHING TO EXERCISE YOUR GLUTEUS MEDIUS TO THE SIDE. SO ANY FALL THAT IS NOT STRAIGHT BACK, HITS YOUR SIDE OF WHICH YOU DID NOT CONDITION UPON MUSCLES THAT YOU HAVE TRAINED TO BE SMALLER, SLOWER AND WEAKER. A 100 % PERFECT STORM FOR INJURY. TO PREVENT INJURY UPON FALLING YOU WANT FAST REACTING, STRONG AND LARGER MUSCLES FOR CUSHIONING. NOT THE INVERSE.
PLEASE VIEW ENERGY SYSTEMS GRAPH IN THE BODYBUILIDING AND TRAINING EPISODES.
ANOTHER GRAPH IN REFERENCE TO LUNG BENEFITS TO BE UPLOADED SHORTLY