Running Argumentative Essay

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Stress fractures occur when repeated pounding on a tendon or ligament attachment, overloads their ability to adapt. Studies suggest tension is worse than pounding, which is why shin splints can end up progressing to fractures. (Lovett 2).
Although running has its risks running, distance running also has many benefits to it as well. The muscular development in running is improved over time in the average distance runner. Running improves the bodies leg and muscle tone. Distance running increases the body's strength, enhances contours, and improves endurance. Runner’s legs are like a powerhouse. They move a runner from point A to point B. The legs carry a person up and down hills, across creeks, track, pavement, and rough terrain. The legs know …show more content…

This doesn’t mean a person will never sprain an ankle again while running on the trails. Running doesn't only boost one's overall fitness but it boosts the body's overall psychological well being. It reduces stress, aids sleep, inhabits depression, and intensifies vitality. Running boosts the brain’s levels in serotonin that make a person much more relaxed. Distance running has many benefits but the most important advantage running has on people is the weight control. Moderate exercise aids in self control, burns calories, suppresses appetite, and encourages a healthy diet. High-intensity distance exercise, like running, stimulates the body's “afterburn” much more than a low-intensity distance exercise. “Even when comparing running with walking the same distance, studies find that running will lead to greater weight loss, most likely because one's resting energy stays elevated after one runs. In a long-term comparison study of runners and walkers, calories burned through running led to 90% more weight loss than calories burned through walking”( Burfoot 2). The first rule of exercising for weight loss is that if a person does not enjoy it, then the person won’t stick with it. Fortunately, studies

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