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Walking Your Way To Weight Loss
Want a great way to burn fat without paying for a gym membership or learning to do anything new?
Then get walking...
Walking is underrated as an aid to weight loss, mainly because big gym chains and fitness magazines focus on ripped bodies with six packs, size zero women who don’t even look at a burger in case they put on weight and a multi-million pound industry that doesn’t want to advertise just how cheap it is to take up a physical activity in nothing more than the clothes you are wearing. But walking can help you to lose pounds (in weight not money) and is something that we can nearly all manage with only a little effort.
SOME NUMBER CRUNCHING
For the average person who wants to lose 1 pound of fat, they would need to burn around 3,500 calories of energy. To burn just 100 calories whilst walking on a flat surface takes around 2,000 steps, roughly equivalent to 1 mile.
Using these numbers you can see that to burn 1 pound of fat each week you need to burn off 500 calories per day by walking 10,000 steps. You may have heard of this ‘magic’ figure bandied about as what we should all be walking each day and now you know the reason why.
If you have led a sedentary lifestyle and make just this one change to your daily regime you will start to lose weight in a manner that is slow but steady. This steady weight-loss is more likely to stay off than when you use ‘fast result’ or crash diets and the extra mobility and fitness levels you are gaining will also have long term health benefits.
If you’re not convinced or think that this is just a myth, try it for one month. Record your weight on DAY 1 and make no other changes in your lifestyle other than ensuring you do a minimum of 10,000 steps each day. I guarantee that if you do this you will be pleasantly surprised.
So what are you waiting for, grab a cheap pedometer, your shoes and get outside in the open air. Especially with the Great British Summer (??!!) in full swing, now is the best time to get into the swing of walking and make the most of the longer evenings and beautiful weather.
