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It is a very simple understanding this subject being a personal trainer, sport therapist and running instructor. It is important to understand the guidelines. The ASCM who most people refer to as the leading body in health and exercise state you need to elevate your breathing and heart rate for 20 minutes for it to have a benefit on your fitness level.

Running, puts a lot of stress on the body, up to 8 times your body weight will be put through your joints when you run. This increases the risk of injury. It does however pick up your breathing rate and body temperature very quickly. This however for people with health problems is not recommended. As it can over load their CV system.

With walking it is harder to elevate your heart rate unless your are working on hills which will make you work harder and cause your breathing and heart rate to elevate. The only other way to do this is to walk very fast.

The key thing for a weight management side is to know that when your work at different heart rate levels the amount of sugar to fat burnt in each calorie will be different. But when running or walking up steep hills you will be burning more than a lazy walk.

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