Walking is good for health, weight loss, and long life

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If you want to know what is the most low risk exercise, the answer is walking. Walking has many benefits. The most benefit of walking comes to longer your life. A study in 2005 proves that 30 minutes of walking a day adds about 1.3 years to a person's lifespan and 1.1 years without heart disease.

many practitioners suggested to walk at least 30 minutes as a cardio activity, all of this is for the same reasons. If your lifestyle is very sedentary, stay at home lot, and your job doesn't need to get active then all what you need is walking. It will help you reduce style diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases and cancer beside prolonging your life.

Nevertheless if you have a lose weight program then you need walk more and you can combine it with other exercises. Experts suggested a good 10,000 steps a day if your goal is weight loss. Absolutely it will take more then 30 minutes, it depends on how your walking is, shorter if you do brisk and race walking and longer if you are doing leisure walking. Getting out of the habit of a lifestyle may be not easy but if you focus on goals you will be motivated. Set your goals before choosing a right walking program and work your way into achieving those goals.

You need a pedometer if you want your progress in walking to be monitored. It's simply a walking gear that couts your steps when you are walking. Pedometer gives you the amount of calories burned during walking, the distance you've walked or the time you spent the exercise. This device will track your progress easier. Some pedometers can log until 7 days/a week.

If you are reluctant to walk, make a motivation by creating a calendar. Place the calendar in conspicuous place on the wall or anywhere in your home. You can make a record of the number of your step and the amount of time you spent walking after you walk. You can practice it for 6 weeks, since it approximately need this amount of time to turn walking into your habit. You can also include calories burned in the calendar. To lose 1 pound will take about 3500 burned calories.

Make sure to wear the proper attire when you go out for walking, more over if you are already getting nippy. During the winter some walker use the treadmill to feel comfort in colder months. If you don't have one, you can go to the gym.  The choice of walking depends on individual preferences, is it indoor or outdoor and how to do it (Nordic walking, brisk walking or race walking). To combine the exercises is good as well.

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