1. What should I do if my leg hurts after walking all day?
(1) Why do my legs and feet hurt?
1, the muscles of the body also have a tolerance range. Walking for a day, feet and legs are the main exercise parts, and the exercise intensity exceeds the range that muscles can load, especially for people who don't exercise much at ordinary times, which can easily lead to muscle fatigue and leg pain.
2, a lot of walking exercise makes the body produce a lot of lactic acid. If it can't be decomposed and discharged in time, it will cause leg and foot pain if it accumulates in the body.
3, walking shoes are not suitable, whether too big or too small, it is easy to make the feet unreasonably squeezed, leading to foot pain.
(2) What should I do if my legs and feet hurt after walking for a long time?
Stretch muscles
Because walking can cause leg pain caused by a large amount of lactic acid accumulation, you can stretch your feet or legs after stopping walking, which can relax the muscles in the legs and feet, promote local blood circulation, and help relieve leg pain and foot pain.
Leg pads.
I have leg pain and foot pain after walking. You can lie down and lift your feet, which can help lactic acid return to the part with faster blood circulation and help it break down quickly, thus helping to relieve pain.
Local hot compress
Walking for a day is a lot of exercise. If your feet hurt and your legs hurt, you can apply hot compress to the sore parts. Applying a hot towel or hot water bag to the sore parts of muscles can promote blood circulation, improve body metabolism and relieve and restore muscle soreness.
Massage and relaxation
It can massage and knead the painful parts, relax muscles, accelerate the decomposition and discharge of lactic acid, and also help to relieve pain. You can rub the sore part with your palm, or massage with collateral oil and safflower oil.
Hot water soaking feet
Walking for a long time causes foot pain and leg pain. You can soak your feet with hot water, which can promote blood circulation. If combined with massage, it can alleviate the discomfort caused by excessive exercise.
Take a rest
Generally speaking, if it is due to strenuous exercise, muscle fatigue or excessive lactic acid accumulation, the pain will disappear and return to normal as long as you rest for a few days.
(3) How to reduce walking leg pain
Generally speaking, even people who exercise regularly will have more or less foot pain or leg pain after a day's walking. If you have to walk for a day, you'd better do warm-up exercises, wear suitable shoes and have a rest during the course to avoid leg pain and foot pain after walking.
2. the benefits of walking
(1) Walking can strengthen the body.
When walking, the muscles in all parts of the body are doing rhythmic and continuous exercise, which can effectively accelerate the utilization of oxygen in all tissues and organs of the body. The more oxygen, the more conducive to the discharge of harmful substances in the body, which can effectively enhance physical fitness. Moreover, after a long period of walking exercise, the body is more energetic and the recovery period of fatigue is greatly shortened.
(2) Walking can prevent and cure diseases.
Walking can promote the work of human insulin, help to consume fat in the liver, and have a certain effect on diabetes and liver disease. In addition, walking can effectively control and prevent diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis. This is a simple way to prevent and treat diseases.
(3) Walking can reduce weight and blood fat.
Walking helps to mobilize the body's fat to become free fat and be effectively consumed as energy, and free fatty acids will not be synthesized and accumulated. Walking is the most effective way to lose weight. Moreover, walking to lose weight will not increase appetite and effectively control excessive fat intake. However, it should be noted that walking time should not be less than half an hour in order to burn fat effectively.
(4) Walking promotes bone development.
Walking can improve the metabolism and blood circulation of human body, greatly enhance the metabolism and nutrition supply of bones, and naturally promote the growth and development of bones. Moreover, walking can stimulate the proliferation of chondrocytes, which is beneficial to the growth of bones; Walking can also stimulate the secretion of growth hormone in the body, effectively helping to increase.
(5) Walking can improve intelligence.
In the process of walking, the tense muscle fibers of the body actively move, thus stimulating the activity of the brain, which can effectively improve the activity level of the brain. When walking, the regular swinging of legs can promote nerve cells to strengthen the activity of the cerebral hemisphere through nerve reflex, so that the more developed the brain is, the more effective the intelligence is.
(6) Walking can delay aging.
Walking can help people's heart to transport blood to the whole body and the flow of blood to the heart, improving the blood circulation of the whole body. Moreover, walking can effectively exercise legs and feet and delay the degradation and aging of skeletal muscle. As the saying goes, people's old legs will age first, and maintaining the vitality of the legs can effectively delay aging.
(7) Walking can strengthen the body.
Walking helps to relieve physical and mental stress, muscles gradually relax in relaxation and reduce bad emotions; When walking, the heart beats faster, breathing deepens, metabolism speeds up, and when the body sweats, it can also help expel toxins and effectively help beauty beauty. Moreover, when walking, you can build a strong body, and the excess fat in the river area can make your body more symmetrical and slender.
3. The disadvantages of walking
(1) Walking too fast hurts the tibia.
If you walk too fast, your feet need to spend more effort to complete this action, especially when the stride is too large, it is easy to cause damage to the tibia, and the tibia will feel pain over time.
(2) The wrong walking shoes hurt your legs.
If you wear inappropriate shoes for a long time while walking, it is easy to cause damage to your legs, such as plantar fasciitis, muscle strain, knee injury and so on. Generally speaking, we think that shoes that are too heavy, shoes that are out of size, and shoes that have been used for more than 1 year are not suitable for walking.