According to recent research, those who train outdoors in the midst of nature find greater benefits than those who are used to training indoor.
Training outdoors is good for it, and when it comes to increasing heart rate apparently, it seems to be benefited in nature that go beyond the only one Vitamin D; and to underline this, there is a new one study That He tested the effects of walking on a treadmill compared to walk out.
The study
The study published on Ecopsychology aimed to compare the Effects of walking in an outdoor natural environment with those of the participants who walked in a closed natural environment on the measures of the effort and the emotions perceived. The researchers wanted to determine if the outdoor exercise leads to greater physical effort (measured by heart rate) and how this is connected to the perceived effort and emotional responses. They also studied if the differences in effort can explain the psychological benefits of outdoor exercise.
The research included 74 university students. Participants were assigned the task of walk outdoors on a flat sidewalk of 0.6 km outdoors or inside on a treadmill while watching a video of the same outdoor course.
Each participant walked for 15 minutes at his own pace and the effort was measured using heart rate monitor and scale Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE scale).
The emotional responses were evaluated using surveys that measured factors such as energy, tension, calm and tiredness before and after walking. Meteorological conditions such as temperature, wind and cloudy coverage have also been recorded.
Participants who walked outdoors had one significantly higher medium heart rate Compared to those who walked indoors, indicating that outdoor participants had a greater physiological effort.
Despite the increase in heart rate during the outdoor walk, the perception of their walks by the participants did not differ significantly between the groups.
In the end, Those who walked outdoors found a significant increase in energywhile those who walked inside did not find any change. Those who walked indoor experienced one significant reduction in voltagewhile those who walked outdoors did not.
The researchers concluded that these results are consistent with a large literature corpus that documents that physical activity in a natural environment has more positive effects than indoor training.
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