If you want to lose weight fast by stress-free manner, a walking program could be one of the easiest ways to do it. It’s easy to fit in busy schedules, and accessible to any gender, age and fitness levels. Try these 6 walking tips to burn extra calories to lose weight.
Walk more
A 30-40 minutes power walk for 4-5 days a week should be your emphasis to get into form. If you find this bit difficult then try start with 20 minutes short walk at any possible convenient time during the day. You can do post-meal walks to help boost your metabolism, digestion, control blood sugar and prevent cravings. When you feel stressed or frustrated, take a short walk to help switch your mood. And, try to walk back home from your working station if that is more or less a mile away from your residence.
Increase walk intensity
Increasing your walking speed from a gentle stroll to a speedy pace is one way to burn more calories and get the heart pumping. A research team at Ohio State University has observed that you can shed 20% more calories by changing your walking speed while keeping a stable pace. To do this, when you walk, walk half a minute burst as fast as you can in every 5 minutes and do a 30 second recovery walk to get back to your normal speedy walk.
Walk on the hills
Walking on a hilly trail or uphill is another way to add variation on your walking program if that doesn’t distress you. If any such uphill trail is inaccessible to you then, consider trying a staircase workout or use your treadmill incline setting as alternative options. And you need to change your walking technique as well like leaning a slight forward just like you hike on uphill trails. Walking workout like this will shed more calories and helps you build lower body muscles and will improve metabolism.
Move your arms
It might sound silly but speedy hand swings while you walk has linked to additional benefits. If done properly, you will improve speed, upper body muscles and shed up to 10% extra calories compared to normal walking. To perfectly do this when you walk, swing your hands bending 90 degree angles, let your hands extend behind as comfortably you can, and lift your hands to your chest height when upswing.
Set step goals
One of the best safest ways you can motivate yourself as walker is setting and steadily increasing step goals. Aim for ten thousand steps per day to begin with and keep gradually increasing total steps after couple of weeks as long as you don’t get stressed to shed more pounds.
Keep calorie intake low
Although consistent walking can do great health transformation but you have to focus on your diet as well to make that happen. Avoiding processed and sugary foods and concentrating on lean proteins, green veggies and fruits is where you should start. Tracking your daily calorie intake can motivate you lose weight safely and faster than craving for tempted fad diets.
