Walk and Lose Weight
It can baffle some people when you tell them that you can lose weight simply by walking. After all, isn't this something that everyone does?
But you don't see too many overweight people losing any of that excess flab walking around, so how can this help anyone to lose any of those excess pounds?
Well, walking for exercise is a little different from the typical slow amble that people see as "regular" walking.
When you want to use walking as an exercise form, you do need to put a little more effort into it, but that doesn't mean it will be any harder than normal.
It's just a little more intense. Here's the basis of what you must do in order to lose weight by walking.
Walk More and Benefit More
You need to walk at a brisk pace and keep that pace up for at least 20 minutes or so to get the most benefit.
It helps if you can walk up and down hills, although many city dwellers will not have this option, it is not essential. The trick is to keep walking fairly fast, although not too fast, for as long as you can. This will make the body burn calories and boost your metabolism, which keeps the process going long after you stop exercising.
There are plenty of people who want to lose some inches from their waistlines but are stalled from getting anything started because they don't really know what they can do that will be effective yet easy to do. Well, walking is a very good idea and is something that just about anyone can do to some extent and it will help the process along in one of the easiest ways of exercising there is.
As long as you don't just amble along at a snail's pace, but pick up your pace to a more brisk and determined one, you can get your metabolism boosted sufficiently to really make a difference to your overall health, fitness levels and ultimately, your weight.
Gentle Exercise
Walking is a wonderful exercise that you can do every day. It not only exercises your body gently, but enables you to get out into the fresh air and also get more daylight and sunshine on those nice sunny days.
This boosts your body's production of vitamin D, which is also linked with more pronounced weight reduction, while the extra daylight boosts the body's production of the feel good hormone, serotonin to boost your mood and lift your spirits to improve your motivation to keep walking in one of the nicest ways that there is.
That is just about all you need to do, to have a really easy way to shed those unwanted pounds and keep weight loss simple without it feeling like you are working hard at it.