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Walk the Weight Loss

May 26, 2009


Walking helps in burning the fat and losing weight. Walking leads to building up of muscles and strength. Body physiology gets adapted to providing energy and removing the lactic acid which get build up because of walking. Longer distance covered in walking leads to increased calorie loss. Daily walking tone up the body and body adapt to the walking exercise and do not get tired easily. It builds up the stamina and increase the fitness. Walking can be done both at fast and slow pace. Both have their own benefits. Walking, at fast pace effects the cardiovascular system particularly.

Fitness and heart condition improves with this walking. Walking fast builds muscles which results in weight loss due to increased calorie expense. Moreover, walking at a fast pace makes more muscles active; hence muscles utilize more calorie resulting in increased calorie expenditure. Walking at slow pace increases the stamina but does not burn calories.

Walking at the rate of 6 kilometer per hour which is optimum fast burns almost 250 calories in one hour. In today’s hectic and stressful schedule, it is usually not possible to go for jogging in morning or evening time. Hence, the treadmill or the walkers have become quite popular due to the convenience of timings they offer. Treadmill also has one advantage over jogging.

The speed and the duration can be monitored and it saves the muscles from the shock of the fast walking by systematic increase and decrease of the speed of walking. Moreover, the calories lost can also be monitored on the digital treadmill and a log can be maintained.

However, walking at fast pace can cause some complications if body is not prepared for it. The pace of walking should be increased in systematic manner to let the body adapt to the fast walking.


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