Race walking has many advantages. It belongs to low-level aerobic activity, and its impact and explosive force are not very strong. Race walking can thin legs, waist and other body parts. Other specific benefits are as follows.

Practicing race walking can develop the strength of leg muscles and the flexibility of hip joint, enhance physical fitness, promote health, improve the functions of blood circulation system and respiratory system, and cultivate hard-working, brave and tenacious will quality. The speed of race walking depends on the step frequency and step size.

Ordinary race walking takes about 100 to 120 steps per minute, which can reach 180 to 200 steps, and excellent race walkers take more than 200 steps per minute. The stride length of ordinary race walking is generally 70 to 80 cm, the stride length of race walking can reach 90 to 1 10 cm, and the stride length of tall athletes is about 120 cm.

Normal walking only takes about 0.5 seconds, and race walking only takes about 0.27 seconds, or even less.

So this increases the difficulty of alternating muscle tension and relaxation, which needs to be solved well in training.

Step size and step frequency are mutually restricted. Increasing step size will affect step frequency, and accelerating step frequency will also affect step size. Generally speaking, the stepping frequency should be increased on the premise of ensuring a certain step size. Excessive step size will increase the burden and tension of muscles, consume too much physical strength, easily cause fatigue, and is not conducive to the acceleration of step frequency. The frequency of stepping up depends on the strength of leg muscles and the role of central nervous system, and its potential power is relatively large.

Non-injury movement

Running, which was popular all over the world in the 1970s, was of great help to the exercise of the respiratory system and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems. Nowadays, the trend in many countries tends to race walking again, because various organs of the body will constantly vibrate during running, which will have a certain impact on the kidneys, pelvis and spine.

However, race walking is not only to accelerate the pace of walking, but also to swing your arms vigorously.

Therefore, race walking is the simplest, easiest to implement and less prone to accidents, so it is also called "non-injury exercise" and is one of the more popular fitness exercises today. One of the advantages of race walking is that it can prevent physical injury.