Running is a democratic activity for the mind. We can run slow or fast, for a short time or a long time, we can do it alone or with friends, we can run in the outdoors or on the track, we can alternate running with walking, we can start to run just out home or going to the gym, we can vary at will the routes and places to run, wherever we are we can go for a run. No other sport is so rich in alternatives to be practiced. It’s democratic because every time we run we are free to choose what to do. For these reasons running stimulate the individual consciousness, which is the art of knowing what we want to do and how. Today I want to run flat on the road, tomorrow in a park and the day after on the track, each of these situations generate different sensations and different types of stride. We must learn to listen, to feel the body sensations, the breath, the heart and the thoughts connected to these sensations. Running mostly means learning to choose which is the most appropriate way for us and especially it means to learn to recognize when it’s time to stop and how to alternate days of intense training with the ones in which we recover. It’s not easy and for this reason it’s useful to follow a training program, simple and suitable for us, but at the same time we must not give up on developing the ability to listen, especially to understand which are the feelings that we should not have (for example, what is that the heart rate must not exceed and that to have in most of the times ). Running is also give a rule, the main one is to have as an objective to continue to run even in a year and do not stop in a month because it was poorly made. An example, to understand how important it’s to follow a rule. If a sedentary person or who does’not practice since many years starts to do 10 minutes of activity 3 times a week, alternating 1 minute of walking and 1 minutes of running if would increase its commitment by 1 minute per week ( then the second would be 11 minutes x 3 times and so on). In a year he/she would be able to run for 1 hour three times a week. This is a gradual approach that anyone who does not have specific health or overweight problems could be able to maintain.
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Every day in the newspapers there is important information on what is the better way of life to be conducted to improve our standard of living. It is also increasingly clear that this lifestyle is connected positively to the care of the natural environment. Let’s talk about attitudes and behaviors that are already implemented in Italy by millions of people, for example, there are more than 5 million of vegetarians and 25% of the population practices some form of physical activity. The issue is that groups are too few in number, while on the contrary the obese are increasing and not decreasing the number of smokers. In essence, we all know what we should do to live better, but we don’t it. The State does not deal with these issues and his only action is to increase the price of tobacco products and it is willing to do it with drinks that contain too much sugar. I think the movement of the “sport for all” should deal with this phenomenon in a primary, since “more movement for all” would also involve an increase in other positive factors that determine well-being. It ‘s a matter which concerns not only the sports organizations but must also involve those of doctors and psychologists. In Italy there have been experiences of this kind but it is not to continue in this way because this way of being must be spread everywhere. Otherwise, as always, who can invest economically on their health will continue to attend sports clubs and SPA, while the majority continue to be prey to the advertising and its stress will lead them to be getting worse.
