Walking To Lose Weight Will Be Healthful Plus It Will Work

Posted on March 14, 2010
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Burn more calories than you eat or drink to lose weight.  Once the diet part is planned, get to stepping.  This means 30 minutes a day seven days a week of aerobic work.  Walking exercises are a tolerable, low impact way to accomplish this goal and more importantly to stick with it for a long time.  Here are some good walking tips.

Forget exercising only three or five days a week, aerobic exercise is something you need to do every day forever.

But then more can be added.  Additional activity, 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 banana 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 exercise.  If you have kids get involved in their games of tag, or chase.  They’ll love it and so will your health.

Intervals can be added once you’re walking every day.  After a short period of walking run, then walk again, then go back to running.  Start out running once or twice in a 30 minute walk, then up it to more often until you’re walking 4 minutes then running 1 minute  It’s not that hard.

Walking to lose weight can be 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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