Elsewhere in our website you may have read our articles on running to lose weight. The reality is, any physical activity if done in more than 10 – 20 minutes will allow you to lose weight.
Any physical activity will cause you to lose weight and increase your strength. This applies to walking as well. Now most of you will be thinking, hang on a minute, how boring can you get?
Walking may be boring and not the most enjoyable activity to perform but it works and works well especially for those of us, who are not in any physical condition to do more intensive activity. You have to start somewhere and if you don’t know where that is, select the activity of walking.
By walking we do not mean light stroll of the type you do on the beach. Brisk walking, fast pace walking or walking on tracks up hills works much better. If you don’t have access to good walking tracks, then walk on the sidewalks or on a field. The pace and duration should be hard and long enough for you to break into a light sweat after a couple of minutes. Walking up a flight of stairs works even better.
Aim to walk at least 3 times a week with a rest between each training day. Wear comfortable shoes and training clothes and pick a time of day when it’s not too hot. You may like walking in the hot sun because you may sweat more but you probably wouldn’t get much out of it except for your body becoming dehydrated and getting burned. Avoid walking in extreme weather conditions. You may end up hurting yourself.
Walking is good for toning your body to prepare you for more intensive exercises later. Some people choose to carry small dumbbells when they walk but that’s not necessary. Keep improving the intensity of your walks. After a few weeks or months, you can then move on to light jogging and then on to full running. After a while you will notice your new level of fitness and will even lose a few pounds a week.
It is more beneficial to supplement your walking with other activities like skipping, swimming, exercising and weight training.
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Most western countries namely the UK, US, Europe, Australia and so forth are full of people who are fat, obese, overweight and unfit. When we started out in life, we did not have to look far for the reasons to keep fit. Being attractive to genders of the opposite sex is a huge incentive to keep fit. Wanting to be the best lover you can ever be and last longer than most is another big incentive.
As we grow older, our outlook and attitudes changes, and so as our priorities. Kids and grand children came along and take up whatever free time we have left. The radio, television, computer games and other time wasting activities takes up the rest of our time. And no wonder we always complain of not having enough time to keep fit.
The internet is full of information, most are crap, but if you take the time to look around, you can find sites that are putting out informative and well researched information. But how many of us are really working on the things we read about? Very few indeed.
With so many distractions around, it is an impossible mission to try and maintain our physical conditions. We keep putting things off eventhough we know that there is no right time to exercise. We became lazy, inactive, careless and lose hope. We also tend to use every excuse in the world to justify to ourselves why we shouldn’t get up early every day and run.
If you want to stay on track long enough to see the benefits of your training programme on your body, on your mind, on your way of thinking, then look for a passion to keep exercising. If you mix that passion with some definitions of purpose (the why if you like) then you will not find it hard to keep getting up and do what most people don’t like doing.
Look for that inner passion. The reasonswhy you live life. The reason why you want to leave a healthy and fit lifestyle. Then when you find it, no longer will circumstances gets in your way, excuses will not fly and nothing will ever stand between you and your training programme.
Try it. Find one burning reason why you need to train and improve your physical condition. You will find that in no time, you will be dedicated to your training routine like you have never been before.
By sticking to your training programme fueled by your passion, you will find that your abdominals will take shape, you will get more toned, lose fat, become more fitter. Training will then become second nature and you will start living life from a new higher level.
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