15 Ways Calories Are Burned Walking

Friday, July 3, 2009, 11:14
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by Liz Langley

Walking is something most of us do every day and yet a few small adjustments made to our existing routine can increase substantially the calories burned walking. All it takes for a person who weighs 160 pounds to burn 100 calories is to walk for half an hour at around 3 miles per hour.

It’s not often that you will physically damage yourself walking, you probably don’t have to buy any extra clothing or footwear and it’s free ! Oops ! – that means that there is no reason what’s so ever why you can’t act on our 15 tips for upping your calorie burn:

1. Unless there are a large number of floors involved – take the stairs, not only going up but down as well.

2. For stress- free parking, park in the less popular spots further away from the store at your local mall, so that you have to walk a little more.

3. Do your bit for the environment and burn a few more calories by using your local bus, railroad or subway service.

4. Once you get more used to using public transport, try getting off one stop early to give yourself a slightly longer walk.

5. Before getting the car out of your garage to go on a short local trip is there any reason why you couldn’t walk instead ?

6. If you own a dog you have a huge advantage – not a dog owner ? – then find someone who is and volunteer to walk their dog once or twice a day.

7. Try to walk for ten minutes after every meal which, apart from shedding calories, really does help with digestion.

8. If you are accompanied by kids or a friend, on your walk, it will help to make it more interesting.

9. Walk in areas that you would not see from a car, public gardens, riverside paths or woods, you’ll be surprised at the things close to home that you are not familiar with.

10. To stop yourself from becoming bored, if you are on your own, you could listen to your mp3 player, while walking.

11. You don’t have to join a walking club however ‘peer pressure’ can be a good thing and they will know where all the interesting local walks are.

12. If you do the school run why not forget the car and walk there with the kids ?

13. Calories burned walking means losing weight so by increasing the amount you walk each week and putting yourself on a sensible diet you will see and feel the benefits surprisingly quickly.

14. Walking will help cut the risk of serious conditions such as heart attacks and strokes, reduce back pain, improve posture and benefit just about every organ in your body.

15. You don’t need to spend money on expensive gym equipment for your home, a decent pair of walking shoes as all you need.

Now you know how simple calories burned walking is to achieve and how powerful this is combined with the right diet so why not start today and just walk !

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