Walk on the Mall, the New Sports?
Fitness November 24th, 2009
Sports light such as walking was a great benefit, among others, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, keep your weight and blood pressure control. In fact, Father of Medicine Hippocrates mentioned on foot as the best medicine for humans.
Ideally walking exercise was conducted in open spaces. However, for various reasons, especially pollution and limited public space, many people prefer urban walking activities in a closed room, one at the mall or shopping center.
According to Sara Donovan, author of Mall Walking Madness: Everything You Need to Know to Lose Weight and Have Fun at the Same Time, activities at the mall walking became popular since the opening of the first malls in the United States, the Stockdale, in Minnesota in 1956.
At that time the doctors recommend that patients recovering from heart disease treatment for walkers in the Stockdale for free from the weather. Understand it, the city is often snowy weather and blustery.
“The people who want to exercise and then go to the mall Stockdale management supported by the shut shop early so the store can be used to exercise,” said Donovan.
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA, since opening in 1992 even offers a walking program. The mall was opened in early, 7 o’clock in the morning before the stores open to accommodate the pedestrians. Widespread throughout the mall is approximately 0.9 square miles, not bad for a workout.
Several other malls and offer similar programs. In addition to the elderly, activities in the mall walking is preferred pregnant women or new mothers giving birth. “The mothers can bring their babies to wear stroler,” said Donovan.
Walking in the mall considered safer than in the open air. “The weather is very cold here, while at the mall warmer weather. We also do not have to worry about slipping. There was also a health facility that is ready to help if there is a heart attack,” said Elayne Gilhousen regular walk at the mall with her husband during the last 17 years.
According to health experts, activities included walking cardio exercises that can strengthen the heart as when walking, the rhythmic body moved without stopping for a certain period and involved many joints.
