How To Include A Walking Workout In Your Daily Routine
Posted by Charles Webster in Uncategorized, tags: burn fat, exercise, fitness, health, lose weight, Uncategorized, walking, weight loss, weight reduction, women's issues, workoutWalking is a fantastic way to exercise. The large majority of us do it on a daily basis. Apart from a comfortable pair of shoes, it requires no special equipment - and you can fit it into your daily schedule whenever it’s convenient for you. There are no costly monthly membership fees to pay - so it’s also a very cost effective way to take exercise.
There are so many health benefits associated with walking that it’s almost difficult to credit that these are available from a low impact, low injury risk exercise format. The important thing is consistency - low level exercise, performed on a regular basis is very much better for you than infrequent and periodic spells of intense physical activity.
Thirty minutes of walking, three or four times a week, on a regular basis, will produce results that you can both see and feel. If you can work up to 10,000 steps a day - that’s somewhere between four and a half and five miles for most people - you will really reap the rewards.
There are plenty of opportunities to get exercise by walking every day. If you have time to fit in a thirty minute to one hour walk, then that’s great. If you don’t, then there are many ways to boost the number of steps that you take on a daily basis.
Leaving the car in the garage and walking to work or school is sound advice. However, if the distance involved is too great then take the car as usual - but park it in the far corner of the parking lot so that you have further to walk to get to the entrance. If you travel by bus or subway rather than car then you could get off a couple of stops early and finish your journey on foot.
Taking a ten or fifteen minute walk during your lunch hour will be better for you than eating a sandwich slumped in front of your computer. Take advantage of modern technology and walk around when you’re talking on your mobile or cordless phone. A fifteen minute phone call should give you the opportunity to fit in an extra 1,000 steps to your day. That’s the kind of multi-tasking that’s good for you.
If the majority of your walking activity is shoe-horned into your day, then you might want to consider buying a pedometer - they are fairly cheap these days. You can carry one of these in your pocket or wear it on your belt. It will let you track and record your progress in terms of the number of steps taken, the number of calories burned or the total distance covered. Monitoring your progress in this manner will help keep you motivated and might encourage you to seek out even more inventive methods of building walking into your daily schedule.
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