The new way of exercising has spread from Sweden to other countries. At the same time, it burns calories, gives the exerciser good shape and saves the world from garbage.
Plogging - a combination of jogging and the Swedish expression "plocka upp", which means - pick it up, is based on walking through nature and collecting garbage on the way.
Routes usually end with bags full of garbage, which are then thrown into bins.
This way of running consumes even more calories than ordinary jogging, because the exerciser also does additional exercises when bending over. And the more garbage he picks up, the fuller and heavier the bag is, so the arms get extra exercise while running.
We probably don't need to talk much about the benefits for the living environment and the ecological aspect of this way of exercising.
Half an hour of plogging will burn 288 calories, while regular running burns around 235 calories.
A plogging craze has started on social media and is becoming increasingly popular as people proudly share photos of the trash they have collected.
Some joggers realized that they were basically plogging all the time, because it is not unusual for people who run in nature to pick up discarded bottles, wrappers and other garbage that they can carry in their hands, reports B92.
The hashtag 'plogging' is becoming more and more common on Instagram, and in Facebook groups people also post the routes they have traveled and cleared.
It would not be bad if this practice were established in our country as well.
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