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Fitness
Through Interval Walking
Experts have been telling us to get up and
walk to get healthy for years. Many do not believe that becoming healthy
and fit could be as easy as putting on a pair of sneakers and heading out
the door. But not all ways of walking are the same when it comes to
getting you into shape.
The type of walking that you do everyday around your house will eventually
get you to you goals. However, to supercharge your workout, look at a new
way of walking. One of the best ways to walk is to do interval training
when you walk. This routine will supercharge your workout routine.
The best part about interval training when it comes to walking is you can
get twice the workout in about half the time that it would normally take
you. This means that you can hit your snooze button a few extra times in
the morning before you head out for your walk.
Interval training is all about increasing your heart rate at short bursts.
It takes more energy to increase and decrease your heart rate than to keep
it steady. When you walk at a steady rate throughout your workout you miss
that added energy burn of the continual increase and decrease. Using this
type of walking will take some getting used to.
Interval walking in a basic way is easy to do. You need to set a scale as
far as exertion for you goes. Look at the scale as being 1 to 10. Level 1
would be lounging in front of your TV. Level 10 would be sprinting. Begin
your walking with five minutes of walking at a moderate pace. This pace
would be a level 6 or 7. For the next five minutes you will want to
increase your pace to a level 8 or 9. You need to continue alternating
between the two paces for the rest of your workout.
To help you to know when to change paces in your workout, you can record a
workout tape. On this workout tape you can alternate slow and fast songs
to remind you what speed that you should be walking at. You can do
interval walking outside or you can do it on your treadmill. It is an easy
workout to use no matter where you are.
Interval training is one of the most effective walking workouts there is.
You can burn twice the amount of calories that you would normally do out
on you regular walk. There are also ways to make this walking workout even
more effective as a way to achieve your fitness goals. You can stop after
two rounds of increasing and decreasing your walking pace and do some
squats and lunges.
The sky is the limit when you include interval walking into your workout
routine.
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