Losing weight is a matter of consuming fewer calories than you burn. Once a healthy diet is planned it’s time to get down to exercise. This should include seven days a week, 30 minutes a day of aerobic exercise. Vigorous walking exercises are a tolerable, low impact way to accomplish this goal and more importantly to stick with it for a long time. With a few tips in mind it can be even better.

Forget the idea of 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 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 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.

After getting accustomed to walking that 30 minutes every day, make some adjustments by adding intervals. After a short period of walking run, then walk again, then run. 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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