Sunday, October 2, 2011

Walking For Weight Loss - Healthy Exercise to Dump Pounds Fast

By Michael Thomas


Whilst reducing calories will help you shed those unwanted pounds, you can help them stay off by walking. Weight management is, potentially, simple. How often have you lost 2, 3 or maybe 4 pounds? The troublesome part is keeping that weight off and here is where walking helps.

Hippocrates expounded 'Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. '

A couple of generations gone the general public incorporated enough physical activity in their standard day to day lives to make separate exercise pointless. The same can't be claimed today with our sedentary lifestyle packed with labour saving devices. We have to make an effort to exercise our bodies as it is simply not happening, for many of us at least, in a standard working day. Either that or adhere to a programme like Austin Weight Loss.

If you have been limiting your calorific consumption to lose some pounds, you will have decreased your basic metabolic rate. Your metabolic rate is your body's engine and like all engines it needs fuel (food). When the fuel is in short supply (when you are on a diet) the engine slows its burn rate to conserve energy so you really begin burning fewer calories and the rate at which you shed pounds slows and plateaus.

Walking for 20, 30 minutes - or an hour if you have the time - each day will really help to increase your basic metabolic rate back up to a typical level. This in turn means your body has to look somewhere else for fuel and this is when it will begin to raid those fat stores.

The beauty of walking is you can start without buying special clothing or clobber; you can do it wherever you are in whatever time you have available.

You can buy a treadmill or walking machine to allow you to walk indoors - weight reduction clobber can be actually handy in keeping you to your weight management work out routine - provided it's used by you for the purpose for which it was designed and don't leave it in the corner of your bedroom to be used as a clothes rack.

As well as helping you maintain your weight reduction walking has been shown to reduce the risk of suffering from diabetes, stroke, several cancers and coronary disease.

If you don't have enough time to go for a stroll be imaginative and consider the opportunities you have got to incorporate walking into your standard daily agenda. Walking is free, it's eco friendly and it's good for you.

Walking conditions and strengthens muscles, increases fitness levels, boosts circulation and has been shown to lift those naturally occurring brain chemicals that ward of depression. Plenty of weight issues can be assigned to comfort eating due to depression and the blues. Walking helps to lift the mood thus reducing the necessity to eat chocolate and other serotonin containing foods.

So you are convinced of the benefits of walking but before you pull on your walking shoes, be reasonable.

Do you need to test in with your Doctor before beginning an exercise program?

Never forget to gradually warm up those muscles before striding out and gradually stretch the muscles as you cool down after your walk.

Be safe - think about your route, let someone know which way you'll be walking or find a walking pal.

Remember strolling around a mall, a zoo or a park, while your kids play, is all walking.

Always carry a bottle of water with you and take the time to keep control of your progress - this can be really motivating on those off days when you lose your walking mojo. Being able to look back and see how far you have progressed can be inspiring.

Design your own walking fat reduction regimen to suit your current fitness levels and mixed with a good eating plan you will find the weight is not only lost nevertheless it stays off too.




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