Broadcast personality Choi Hwa-jung shared her secrets for maintaining her figure.
On the 2nd, a video titled "Choi Hwa-jung, 65, keeps her figure and protects her knees with a miraculous running method (+global trend)" was uploaded to the channel 'Hello, I'm Choi Hwa-jung.'
That day Choi Hwa-jung said, "I have a jogging that feels like walking. It's called slow jogging, so let's try walking it once." He said, "Slow jogging is actually well known, right? I have been doing it for quite a long time. They say it burns body fat quickly, and from my experience you can do it for quite a long time. If you do it for more than 30 minutes, or more than 20 minutes, it works well. They say it's a global craze."
The production team was surprised and asked, "Do you also walk the stairs and do slow jogging?" Choi Hwa-jung replied, "Yes. When I do it here and go up, I don't take the elevator; I go up the stairs. Now that I'm quite old, I think of it as saving muscle strength."
Later Choi Hwa-jung moved places and directly explained the slow jogging method. She said, "The most important thing in slow jogging is that the forefoot touches the ground first. Land on the forefoot. That doesn't mean you run only on the forefoot. The forefoot touches first and the rear touches slightly. The landing is forward. The rear follows naturally. At first, if you concentrate only on the forefoot, you end up only on the forefoot the whole time. The rear must touch too. Land on the forefoot while naturally..."
She added, "Slowly. The rhythm is about three times per second. It can be slower than walking. But I ask this: when people run like this they can feel embarrassed and run fast, but you shouldn't do that. You have to match the rhythm, and the important thing is to straighten your waist and smile broadly. Really. Straighten your back and lift the corners of your mouth. Let your arms move naturally. They go up and down. Maybe because of that, if you do this for 15 or 20 minutes you really get out of breath. Starting with 30 minutes is too much."
As they moved to the stairs, Choi Hwa-jung said, "When I do stair exercises I said it's more stimulating if you place only half of your foot forward. Then only the calf is engaged. From my experience I liked this more. If you put your heel fully on the step so the whole foot touches, it seems to stimulate the thighs and buttocks more. And when going down the stairs, go sideways. Going down rigidly is worse for the knees than going down hunched over."
Choi Hwa-jung, who said she usually slow jogs about 6 km to Itaewon, emphasized the importance of exercise, saying, "I'm just getting older so I want to walk well. Depending on how you manage yourself now determines whether you can walk later. But these days young people are so diligent and smart that they exercise a lot from their 20s and 30s. Look at Jang Won-young. Even with such a busy schedule she always exercises, getting up early in the morning."
After finishing slow jogging, Choi Hwa-jung ate Hangang ramen with the production team. Eating heartily in a mukbang, she vowed, "After this shoot I'll really have to tighten up my diet." A staff member revealed, "That year-end she fasted strictly for five or seven days. She only drank water. But she recorded the radio for six hours a day and did the broadcasts," which shocked viewers. Another staff member asked, "In your 40s?" but replied, "A few years ago," indicating it was relatively recent and adding to the surprise.
To this Choi Hwa-jung said, "I don't think of it as starving; I think of it as taking tonic. When a person approaches something, mindset is very important. If you think you're just starving, life becomes too hard. When taking tonic, they tell you not to eat chicken or pork. I just don't eat any of it. I just drink water." The production team asked again, "For five days?" and Choi Hwa-jung nodded and said, "Yes."
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