| Most people either love running or they hate running. | | | | as you run, your arteries expand and contract three |
| Some fall in love with running and some fall out of | | | | times more than usual. Your potential for a heart |
| love. It is an intense workout which can be painful, | | | | attack or stroke can be greatly minimized by running. |
| exhausting and strenuous. So why is it that people | | | | Running can also improve your overall health as it can |
| that are do not necessary love running, continue to | | | | raise your good cholesterol (HDL) and reduce the |
| run as one of their main cardio exercises. The most | | | | chance of blood clots. Running also encourages the |
| common answer to that is weight loss. Most | | | | unused portion of your lungs to be used and |
| individuals who become runners, start running in order | | | | improves your immune system. |
| to lose weight. Running is one of the top activities to | | | | Known as the "runner's high", running can also |
| burn fat. The reason being is that running exerts a | | | | improve your mood. Running releases endorphins |
| large amount of energy which means you burn more | | | | which can cause an overall feeling of happiness. It has |
| calories and your body will shed excess weight in the | | | | been used to treat depression and addictions. Running |
| form of fat. Though most people start to run in | | | | also alleviates stress and tension. From experience of |
| order to lose weight, there are many other benefits | | | | being a runner, running can allow you to escape your |
| from running that keep people stuck on this exercise. | | | | busy and hectic world, and focus on the task at |
| Running can prevent bone and muscle loss. Those | | | | hand. Running can act as a type of meditation for |
| who run regularly are less likely to have muscle and | | | | some individuals and allows the tension in your mind |
| bone loss than people who do not run. Muscles and | | | | and body to float away. |
| bones grow stronger based on the demands you put | | | | The best thing about running is that you can do it |
| on them. Living a sedentary lifestyle allows your | | | | anywhere or anytime, outdoors or indoors. Many |
| bones and muscles to get weaker making an | | | | runners enjoy running in the outdoors; however, for |
| individual more susceptible to osteoporosis. By | | | | runners who live in areas which do not have mild, dry |
| pushing yourself when you run, your muscles and | | | | climate all year round, they choose to run on |
| bones will keep up with you, and maintain their | | | | treadmills. Treadmills are available at gyms or can be |
| resilience. Running has also been proved to promote | | | | purchased to be used in your own home. I am an |
| the human growth hormone which can slow down | | | | avid runner but live in Western Canada where most |
| the aging process. | | | | of the winter is made up of rain. I run outdoors but |
| Running also benefits cardiovascular health. Running | | | | also have purchased a treadmill from one of the best |
| can lower blood pressure and allow arteries to | | | | quality treadmills makers called NordicTrack. |
| maintain their elasticity. It maintains elasticity because | | | | |