Week 3: I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
Week 3? Already? Yes. It is indeed the third week, but this week I decided to do something a little different...
That was My doggo Eddard Stark, Ned for short. I decided to use him as a part of my second intervention method which was you guessed it, running with a friend! It is proven that exercising with others versus alone increases one's dedication to physical activity.
A study that looked at two groups of older adults: group one who worked out alone and group two worked out with one or more friends. They found that they both had increased health benefits but the group of adults that exercised with others ha an increased frequency of sessions. This study proves that social interaction can encourage me to run more often (Kanamori, 2016)
Ned was such a good sport during my run, as I expected. He did stop to pee and poop but did so on the walking portions of my routine so it did little to no damage to my running time. In fact, bringing him with me on today's session seemed to influence me to faster? Ned is a little lightning bolt when you give him a chance so he bolted it during the jogging portions of my run. The little guy was basically dragging me along. Although, I decided to not take him on my next session because he seemed very exhausted after today's session, and I did some research and it turns out that not all dog breeds are capable of enduring long-running sessions. This news was slightly disappointing but at least I learned something new about Ned, and I reached my goal this week!
That was My doggo Eddard Stark, Ned for short. I decided to use him as a part of my second intervention method which was you guessed it, running with a friend! It is proven that exercising with others versus alone increases one's dedication to physical activity.
A study that looked at two groups of older adults: group one who worked out alone and group two worked out with one or more friends. They found that they both had increased health benefits but the group of adults that exercised with others ha an increased frequency of sessions. This study proves that social interaction can encourage me to run more often (Kanamori, 2016)
Ned was such a good sport during my run, as I expected. He did stop to pee and poop but did so on the walking portions of my routine so it did little to no damage to my running time. In fact, bringing him with me on today's session seemed to influence me to faster? Ned is a little lightning bolt when you give him a chance so he bolted it during the jogging portions of my run. The little guy was basically dragging me along. Although, I decided to not take him on my next session because he seemed very exhausted after today's session, and I did some research and it turns out that not all dog breeds are capable of enduring long-running sessions. This news was slightly disappointing but at least I learned something new about Ned, and I reached my goal this week!
Weekly Chart Update
References
Kanamori, S., Takamiya, T., Inoue, S., Kai, Y., Kawachi, I., & Kondo, K. (2016, December 15). Exercising alone versus with others and associations with subjective health status in older Japanese: The JAGES Cohort Study. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5156899/
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