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Running is considered, overall, probably the best thing to do if you want to be fit, healthy and attractive. Beside that it is just good solid fun: and that is a fact.
I am not joking before I teach you guys the mind bending tricks that will make your run faster, I have to let you know that it has been scientifically proven, by scientists, that running is actually fun. Well maybe not fun, because that is subjective, but it does actually increase endorphins in the brain like serotonin, epinephrine and dopamine.
This all contribute to happy thoughts, according to neurologists anyway. When I said it makes you more attractive, well that is fact too, and I didn't get that from maxim... I got it from some other totally legitimate scholarly site.
Search Google, key words: collagen, running and face. There should be something by like a Livestrong or something.
Anyway, heard it from them, running increases collagen in the face. That means you don't have to pay a plastic surgeon to inject your forehead with some weird plastics; you can get them from running.
Oh, you have to love modern science that is spread through online blogs and pseudo-scholarly articles. Ok onto the real purpose of the article, to make you run faster.
According to maxim, walking will make your run faster. And they supposedly got that from a doctor.
Truth is, yes it will; it is called HIIT (high intensity interval training). Amy Powell, MD, Board of American Medical Society for Sports Medicine will detail it to you in specifics.
I will give you a crude interpretation. Your muscles have something called max potential.
When jogging you are probably around 40 to 50 percent max potential, and when walking you are probably around 10 percent (rough estimate). If you are to run as fast as you can, at 100 percent, you are going to tear your muscles much more than you would from jogging for an entire day.
This is because you are actually tearing your muscles and creating muscle development. Kind of makes sense.
And to incorporate 100 percent activity you need to take breaks and walk about every minute or so, so that is why maxim thought that walking made you run faster. They just didn't read Amy Powell's entire Article.
Maxim also recommended running downhill to increase speed. Of course you get the added speed from gravity, but unbeknownst to them, running downhill can actually permanently increase speed.
According to Blaine Moore, a marathon coach, running downhill actually trains your body to work in the best possible running position. Body forward, ankles bent whilst propelling you forward.
If you run downhill, about once a week or so, that form will become second nature. Then you can use the benefits on level ground. Destry Masterson is a health, fitness and nutrition expert. She has written articles about exercise and recommends http://www.proform.com for information about exercise equipment.
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