Improving Your Walking Workout

Improving Your Walking Workout

In today's tip you'll get some great ideas on improving your waling workouts.

Now, for those of you who are saying "I don't do walking workouts" it might as well be said that walking is one of the safest and effective ways to improve your health and stamina, clear your mind and get the creative juices flowing. If you don't do it maybe you should start.

Anyway…

Did you know that walking at a brisk pace of between 3 or 4 miles per hour burns almost as many calories as running an mile at an average pace? Not only that, but you the health benefits both activities are nearly identical.

If that's too fast for you try walking at a more moderate pace, say 2 miles per hour, and see if you don't feel better.

According to a study conducted by Harvard University, walking just one hour per week - regardless of speed - reduced the risk of coronary artery disease. And you guessed it, walking longer and fast enough to make you sweat reduced that risk even more.

Here are some suggestions:

Try walking at a moderate pace for at least 30 minutes a day. An average person weighing around 150 pounds will burn about 300 calories per hour if they walk at around 3 or 4 miles per hour. In one week you will have burned. Other studies have shown that burning between 1K to 2K calories per week (through exercise) fortifies and protects your heart from heart disease.

When at the mall, at work or anywhere else, try to take the stairs instead of the elevators.

When you walk its better to swing your arms rather than keeping them stiffly at your sides. You get a better workout, helps get the blood flowing better, improves your balance, makes you move faster and can burn nearly 10% more calories than walking with stiff arms.

Well that about does it for today.

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