Walking To Lose Weight Tips – Things You Should Know About Walking To Lose Weight
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Burn more calories than you consume to lose weight. Once the diet part is planned, get to the exercise. This should include seven days a week, 30 minutes a day of aerobic exercise. Walking is a tolerable, low impact way to accomplish this goal and more importantly to stick with it for a long time. Here are a few walking tips.
Walking for 30 minutes a day every day of the week is a great start. In fact, it’s much better than the five day, or even three day, routine that many people recommend. 30 minutes of exercise 3-5 times a week just isn’t enough. The body needs work every day. That means seven days a week and if walking is the way to make that tolerable every day for the rest of your life, then walk.
But then more can be added. Additional exercise, outside that 30 minutes a day seven days a week, is easy. Park the car further from the store or office, then walk. Instead of gobbling a bagel while riding the elevator up to your floor, enjoy a some fruit while walking up the stairs. When it’s time to rid the yard of leaves use the old fashioned hand rake rather than the leaf blower. Muscle power is activity and that burns calories. If you have kids get involved in their games of tag, or chase. They’ll love it and so will your body.
Intervals can be added once the walking has been established. Intervals are short bursts of increased activity sprinkled into a normal routine. Start out by running for 30 seconds every 10 minutes of the walk. Gradually up this to a one minute run every five minutes, which would work like this. You walk for the first four minutes, then run for the fifth, then walk the next four minutes, run the next minute, and so on for the whole 30 minutes. Keep in mind that a run is not a jog, it’s faster, it’s a sprint. So if you have to work up to run with jog at first.
Make walking a whole family activity. Walk the kids to school instead of driving them. Walk to the store. Get out and see the sights. And no, don’t stop walking just because of some rain. Wear a rain coat and some galoshes.
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