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Can Walking Help Lose Weight?

Walking is an excellent form of exercise that can aid weight loss and provide other health benefits. It is easy and cost effective.

Walking and weight loss

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The number of calories burnt depends on factors like your weight, time spent walking and walking speed.

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While walking itself can help you lose weight, it's much more effective when combined with a low calorie diet.

Pro tip

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Besides weight loss, walking as an exercise has several other benefits, like controlled cholesterol levels, decreased blood pressure, and overall improved quality of life.

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It's important to start slowly, and progressively increase the duration and intensity. Walking fast initially for a long time can leave you fatigued, sore, and unmotivated.

Tips for beginners

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Start with 10?15 minutes per day at an easy pace and then increase by another 10?15 minutes each week until you reach 1 hour per day.

How to start

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While walking, look ahead to keep an eye on speed and lengthen stride. Focus on tightening the abdominal muscles and glutes. This helps build strength and stay injury free.

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To help burn more calories and hence lose weight, one can add resistance training to their walking routine. Some recommended exercises include lunges, push ups, squats and burpees.

For effective results

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Modify your walking routine, you can split up your walking time, choose a walking partner or listen to music or a podcast. Remember to also reward yourself.

To stay consistent

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As you start walking more consistently, it may help to increase your walking intensity, which will in turn burn more calories. You can try increasing your pace or walking uphill.

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