The headline could be taken as a threat (“Want to live a long life, boy? Start running…”), but it’s an interesting article
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running. A study published on Monday shows middle-aged members of a runner’s club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.
Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, researchers at Stanford University in California found.
“At 19 years, 15 percent of runners had died compared with 34 percent of controls,” Dr. Eliza Chakravarty and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Hmmm, wonder if my 2 miles a day on the treadmill counts…
Sure. But you know my advice to treadmill runners is to do it in intervals. Like, two to six minutes as hard as you can and then half that time slow jogging to catch your breath. Then repeat as necessary. If you do that for two miles you’ll probably get a better workout than two miles at a steady pace.
There is an interval function on most treadmills that allows you to do these kinds of workouts automatically.
Yeah, that’s what I tend to do.