Is Walking A Good Way To Burn Fat?
Turn on the TV and you’re bound to see an ad for a miracle weight loss gimmick. With all the pills and contraptions, it seems hard to know what will help us lose weight safely. But the answer really is simple: To rid yourself of unwanted pounds all you need are your own legs, some comfortable shoes, and a little open space.
Walking is an integral part of everyday living. We have to walk every day to do whatever it is we want or need to do, all you have to do is up it a little and you will see the pounds drop off. With walking you will improve your health as you are losing weight. So, walking for weight loss is a very good idea.
While this article is on the topic of burning fat with walking the first and best way to burn fat is to modify your current diet. There are three simple ways you can begin to modify: reduce calories, reduce sodium, and reduce fat.
For example, by substituting a glass of water for a carbonated beverage, you can cut approximately 150 calories or more, depending on how much is consumed. Even if it were fruit juice instead of water, you would still reduce calories by approximately 50 – 100.
But, while I have nothing against brisk walking as it is something that I believe is good for the body and is some thing that I enjoy, brisk walking will not burn as much fat as you are lead to believe. Yes, it does raise the heart rate, yes you are using your larger muscles and yes, it does burn calories BUT it does rank low on the fat burning scale.
“Aerobic” exercise like walking or swimming will burn a great percentage of body fat, but the down side is that you need to be motivated enough to workout frequently. And aerobic exercise only burns fat during the workout so if you want better results and more fat burned, you need to be able to exercise daily and for longer periods of time.
But there are ways around this here are 4 Ways To Burn More Fat Walking…
- Try and find a route with inclines and walk up hill you mightn’t be able to walk as fast but that extra exertion makes a big difference to the calories you burn.
- If your route has no inclines, start your walk with a typical steady pace then gradually increase the pace for a moment.
- Purchase some arm and leg weights before you go walking, and move your arms briskly along with your legs. This helps to tone and also increase the calories burned.
- If you have small kids, put them in a pram, and take them for a walk around the block. It ads resistance and helps increase the power of the work out.
Power walking workouts are a reasonable way to boost fitness and burn stored body fat. About 45 minutes of power walking burns about 527 calories. In one year, this daily exercise routine burns a total of 192,355 calories per year – about 55 pounds of stored body fat.
If you’re not sure what power walking is its walking as fast as you can as if you are on your way to a very important appointment, or 10 minutes late for it! You’ve probably seen walking like this in the Olympics.
But, while walking can be a good way to maintain weight you must be careful with your food and the necessary exercise you need to do to burn it off. For example, if you eat a chocolate bar, we may need to walk 6 km just to burn it off, down a “Big Mac”, and you could be looking to walk at least 10km to burn those calories ( and that’s not including the fries on the side!)
When it comes to losing fat, nothing is more accurate than the old adage, “calories in, calories out.” In theory, the fewer the calories you take in, the less fat you will store and the less weight you’ll have to lose and shorter you’ll need to walk.
Maybe if we considered how many steps we’d need to make to burn off every meal we might reconsider how much we put in our mouths.
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