Running in the big city

Now in the world there are more than 200 thousand sports, and running among them is not just the best among equals, it is out of competition. Aerobics, yoga, videos, gym, dancing, volleyball, basketball and tennis - any physical exercise extends life and improves health, if you add 15 minutes of running to it. This has long been understood in the entire civilized world and has made cheap and affordable jogging a fashionable and prestigious hobby.

Everyone is running, running, running ...

Each apartment building in New York has a fitness room, a purely symbolic fee for which is included in the bill for the apartment. It is worth doing a dozen steps in a straight line like an arrow, and you will find a bigger sports club - endless rows of treadmills and exercise bikes, a pool with intricate lighting and a huge jacuzzi, which will fit an entire football team. The monthly fee for all this fitness splendor is from 10 to 30 dollars.

1500 rubles per month - unlimited, if desired, round-the-clock membership in the club by our premium standards. And yoga studios in panoramic penthouses of huge skyscrapers, dance schools with professional dance floor and concert lighting, incredible climbing walls, ice rinks and tracks for racing on everything that moves, including dog teams - a fitness paradise, and more.

Why, then, thousands and thousands of New Yorkers break out of a five-star sports cage on the gassed Manhattan sidewalks, maneuver between street musicians and transvestites, smile sweetly on the counter Kerry Bradshaw in incredible sandals and run, run, run - to work, to a restaurant, charity for records and records. Yes, New York, according to official figures, in America, 25 million (!) People regularly go in for jogging. And here, gas is understandable ...

Statistics say that about 2 million run in Russia, although there are dozens of times less gyms than rotting America, and the air is cleaner and the surroundings are definitely more picturesque than, for example, New York Chinatown or Meat Quarter. It would seem, run Ivanov, run Smirnov, what remains for you? You can buy a membership to a fitness club only in a squeeze, but only Gump, which is Forrest, is still running.

Running away from disease

Paraphrasing the cult Balabanovsky character, we cry:

“What is the reason, brother?”
- And here's the reason: money is the reason!

It is difficult and expensive to be treated in America, with all due respect to bodybuilding and aerobics, cycling and TRX-training, and even to yoga and Pilates, only jogging, and even the jogging, can be truly health-improving.

Running step is a biomechanical miracle. He could not be born only through evolution. This is probably a gift from the one who created us in the image and likeness. Overcoming gravity, the phase of flight, and, finally, landing on the heel - this is how the phenomenon of biomechanical resonance, peculiar only to running, is born. In addition to a kind of massage, which strengthens the walls of blood vessels and improves the outflow of bile, this push squeezes blood into the vessels without much effort from the heart. It is picked up by active and short contractions of the muscles of the foot and lower leg, which can work for a long time and economically, and then, during the swing of the leg, the thigh muscles give the blood a final acceleration, thereby creating the effect of a second heart. Thanks to such help, a real heart is able to work powerfully and economically, stretching the coronary arteries, which leads to an increase in their clearance.

That is why running is not prevention, but medicine. Cardiac surgeons all over the world not only consider running a panacea for coronary disease and hypertension, but they themselves have always run and run.Up to 94 years old, academician Amosov ran around Kiev squares, until 100 years professor Boris Korolev wound kilometers along the Volga slope.

You can replace everyone and everything, but not running

There is no exercise that could completely replace a live run on a street or stadium.

Treadmill (treadmill) at the moment of contact of the foot with the belt manages to push the supporting leg back, while the hip biceps do not have time to contract properly - the magic muscle pump loses power.

Walking even at a fast pace does not cause a hydraulic shock during contact of the heel against the floor, which is why useful vibrations are minimal.

Skis require snow and do not create useful vibrations at all, moreover, they are so technically complicated that most people on the track just walk, admiring the snow caps on fir branches.

Pools in fitness clubs are more like a huge bath - a term in which modern patricians conduct leisurely conversations about quotes and disinfect tired bodies in shock doses of an antiseptic.

Running is an integral part of training programs in all sports. Running weightlifters and chess players.

“Completed the Paris Marathon in 4:08. I think I became the first ever world chess champion to master this distance, ”- on April 3, 2016, grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk wrote on her twitter.

You can run away from everything: from cancer and sclerosis, from depression and neurasthenia. Running is so natural and simple that only one piece of advice can be given to beginners.

Run like an Elk!

Yes, with a capital letter. Elk Oleg Yulianovich, “older brother” of the American Forrest Gump, master of sports of the USSR, honored trainer of the RSFSR. He began to run in the winter of 1945 in full combat outfit without sleep and rest, at the limit of human capabilities. Chasing the retreating Germans, he only dreamed of surviving and running this distance in peacetime in a sports T-shirt and light slippers.

His dream came true, and 4 injuries, 3 of which were in the legs, and post-war hunger and devastation did not stop him - he was the first in the USSR to run super marathons, one of them, “Moscow - Warsaw - Berlin”, brought him world fame.

O. Yu Los, EG Milner, - not only fanatically loved running, but also “infected” tens of thousands of athletes with this passion. Thanks to them, jogging took shape in a scientifically based system of treatment and prevention. A lot of books and brochures describe in detail how to start running, coaches and doctors teach gradualness and caution in choosing a distance and speed, the running technique is scrupulously described, and a lot of useful tips for beginners are given:

• Be sure to learn the running technique, but it is better to contact the trainer;
• Do not run in the company, so as not to focus on someone else's pace;
• Do not use musical accompaniment - listen only to your own body;
• use loose clothing, well-worn proven sneakers;
• Do not overeat and get enough sleep before exercise.

But…

Suddenly there is an eccentric, and this eccentric will do everything wrong

More likely not even an eccentric, but a freak. The author of the best-selling wellness books, and this is for the most part men, it’s high time to go down from the HLS of heights to the sinful earth and understand that women will not prepare for the well-being feat for years. Girls start their first run in 90% of cases like this.

Waking up from a restless dream, in which the music of the recent party continued to thunder, the average Masha suddenly sees a clear dissonance between her wrinkled face and the fresh spring landscape outside the window and realizes that it is time to start a new life.

New life, as usual, begins with charging, but morning gymnastics is small, old-fashioned. I want to part with the past faster - literally flee to a bright, healthy future.

Then without hesitation! On the iPod there is a playlist with fresh hits, from the chest there are new compression leggings (jogging clothes are now surprisingly good, thanks to a special cut and new fibers, they will make even a hippo slim and fit). Threats and promises loyal friend is lured from the apartment, and away we go.

The music, the sun, the admiring glances of the early passers-by are hard and hot, but there is happiness in overcoming, and suddenly ...

Health Running Surprises

Surprise number one - severe pain in the right side. It often interferes with running and not only for beginners, the reason is changes in the size of the liver (some authors describe an increase, others describe a decrease), but this is not the point - the blood supply system could not cope with the load. You should not panic, you need to slow down or even go one step further, start breathing by prolonging the exhalation, slightly pulling the diaphragm up. On a pause after exhalation, you can massage the hypochondrium. After the pain has passed, and this will happen, you can continue to run, but at a lower speed.

The next trouble happens when everything seems to go according to plan. The training started successfully, the body started working, the pleasure of the load appeared, the pace increases, breathing suddenly stops and a painful cough arises. This is a common disruption of the respiratory system - asthma of physical effort. Not only asthmatics and allergy sufferers encounter this phenomenon, healthy people can get acquainted with “sports asthma” when practicing in cold air or with hyperventilation (breathing through the mouth). You can prevent an attack by a good workout, or change your tactics altogether - use the running load not at the beginning of the workout, but as a final emphasis, after practicing other more familiar sports.

And, finally, the morning of the next day can please the runner with sensations as if his stressed shin had been cut in half, with each step the Little Mermaid, who was presented with legs for a day, would be remembered. The culprit of pain is a large load on the muscles of the leg and foot. A cold compress and an ibuprofen tablet will save you from suffering, but for the next run it is better to choose earthen tracks rather than asphalt, inserting sports sorbate insoles into running shoes, compression socks for running will also make it easier for the muscles to get used to the load and, of course, warm up and warm up again.

You can endlessly list running troubles, if you wish, it’s easy to find a list of contraindications for running on the network - it is huge. Haruki Murakami answered this best of all: “The reasons that prompt me to run are one-two and miscalculated, but the reasons for ending this activity are a carriage and a small cart. The only thing that remains for me in such a situation is to continue to cherish and cherish those who are "one-two and miscalculated."

So run Lola, more precisely, Masha, overtaking alarmists and skeptics, lazy people and reinsurers, and catch the envious glances of those whose first run is yet to come.