This woman is engaged in a form of lunge, which is one of four routines that AARP says can be combined with three other exercise routines to reap the same benefits as running a mile.
This woman is engaged in a form of lunge, which is one of four routines that AARP says can be combined with three other exercise routines to reap the same benefits as running a mile. ( Photo: Julie Ann Silverman/Wikimedia Commons)

Nobody doubts the benefits of running from building muscles to lowering your heart rate and serving as a general stress reducer. But there are other ways to get the same benefits without pounding the pavement with a ten-minute routine right in your own apartment.

How You Can Get the Benefits of Running without Running
20 Feb 2026 | 01:11
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The benefits of running are obvious. No special equipment needed. An exercise that works anywhere at any convenient time.

Now comes a new workout routine from the good folks at AARP, which offers four ways to get heart and muscle benefits of running without pounding the pavement outdoors in stormy weather....

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A crime scene on Jan. 29 (above). The suspect was said to have first trailed a woman into an elevator in a different building in Stuyvesant Town but left when he encountered another person in the elevator. He then walked across a sidewalk to the above building where he attacked a 14-year-old girl, the DA charged.
A crime scene on Jan. 29 (above). The suspect was said to have first trailed a woman into an elevator in a different building in Stuyvesant Town but left when he encountered another person in the elevator. He then walked across a sidewalk to the above building where he attacked a 14-year-old girl, the DA charged. ( Photo: Tim McCann)

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