Posted on 09/14/2018 5:54:47 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
I've been doing this lately as part of my regular rowing, bike-trainer biking, and crossfit (sort of) regime.
Easy on the feet and legs but the heart gets a good workout (I wear a heart rate monitor and keep it above 140 bpm).
I am impressed with this style of running for cardio.
Long walking (over 10,000 steps) will do this too. When I live in Japan, I walk over this amount daily and always lose weight like crazy.
We used to call it LSD: Long slow distance.
As an aside, I did a crossfit mix 2 days ago (farmer's carry/walk with weights, squat thrusters, pushups, straddle-hops, soccer drills). Legs were/are sore.
Did 35 minutes of yard work yesterday keeping my heart rate above 135-140. Thought about taking today off...but instead did a slow run.
Very nice. No pain in legs or feet. But it was a good cardio workout. Average HR at 144 with max at 155.
Great workout with no leg or foot pain.
I need higher HR to get a good workout.
At fifty I still like a three mike jog a couple times a week with the dog or a walk with wife. Nothing wrong with video. People need to stretch every morning and be able to knock out fifty sit ups for core strength. At eighty three my mom walks three miles five days a week around the neighborhood....
Thanks for posting. I’ll try this.
I assume it’s not stressful on knee, hip joints?
Have only recently added this kind of running/jogging. Great addition to my fitness.
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Can you give a brief description? I hate videos
It's like "natural running" but slower and with softer impact.
Get's the heart rate up but doesn't seem to stress the feet or legs.
Look at the first few seconds of the video. That seems to describe what is going on.
If you are prone to either stress fractures or heat exhaustion, slow jogging is a really really bad idea.
Speed up the pace to reduce the stress on your tibia and fibula. The faster pace will also help sweat evaporate and that can cool you off.
Indeed. I’ve lifted more or less consistently since college football....I’m happy to keep seventy five percent of my former maxed out strength as long as possible. I made that decision when by fourty five everyone my age was getting hurt playing a twenty one year old in the gym....Strength and flexibility now and of course diet...
I started running when I was 50 and have always been a slow runner. Now at 72 I’m still running and will be running my 14th Atlanta Thanksgiving Half Marathon in Nov. Last year when I finished the half marathon there were 6K runner ahead of me and 25 behind me. But I finished!
Being a slow runner has helped me avoid injuries, plus starting so late in life I never felt competitive.
I’m a mother of 6 and had my last child at 40, so I’ve had to push myself to exercise and keep in shape. Slow running is the best exercise for me.
Ganbatte!
There are slow jogging associations all over the world. You should check out whether there is one near you.
Ow...my knees
Do yourselves a favor and go watch the movie "Cliffy"
You will enjoy it very much.
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