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If you have been trying hard to burn fat by exercising but to no avail as well, try to make small changes in sports like running backwards. Walking backwards can be an alternative to exercise because it can burn calories up to 2-fold.
Walking backwards offers many health benefits, such as helping a person recover from common injuries, restore balance, and also burn calories up to 2 times more than running forward.
Researchers have conducted a study of a group of runners and found that when people ran to the front, rear legs will hit the ground and when the foot is lifted off the ground, the weight of the pedestal foot rolled into balls.
On the other hand, when someone walked backwards opposite effect will occur, the front foot strikes the ground and so on. This means that the muscles used for walking forward and backward differ. Walking backwards requires 30 percent more energy than it takes to walk forward.
Walking backwards is also great for people who have problems with his knee, because it can reduce the load on the knee which has always been a pedestal. It also can burn double the calories than walking forward at the same speed, as reported by Medical Daily, Saturday (12/22/2012).
One study found that women who ran the backward direction for 15 to 45 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks to lose 2.5 percent of their body weight.
Walking backwards can also help improve balance. Research has shown that walking backwards can help Parkinson's disease patients get the balance back.
However, running backwards also has shortcomings because it can lead to muscle fatigue. So experts advise to do this exercise gradually into your exercise routine. So you can do practice runs alternately forwards and backwards.
Walking backwards offers many health benefits, such as helping a person recover from common injuries, restore balance, and also burn calories up to 2 times more than running forward.
Researchers have conducted a study of a group of runners and found that when people ran to the front, rear legs will hit the ground and when the foot is lifted off the ground, the weight of the pedestal foot rolled into balls.
On the other hand, when someone walked backwards opposite effect will occur, the front foot strikes the ground and so on. This means that the muscles used for walking forward and backward differ. Walking backwards requires 30 percent more energy than it takes to walk forward.
Walking backwards is also great for people who have problems with his knee, because it can reduce the load on the knee which has always been a pedestal. It also can burn double the calories than walking forward at the same speed, as reported by Medical Daily, Saturday (12/22/2012).
One study found that women who ran the backward direction for 15 to 45 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks to lose 2.5 percent of their body weight.
Walking backwards can also help improve balance. Research has shown that walking backwards can help Parkinson's disease patients get the balance back.
However, running backwards also has shortcomings because it can lead to muscle fatigue. So experts advise to do this exercise gradually into your exercise routine. So you can do practice runs alternately forwards and backwards.
Source: Medical Daily
