Interval Walking: Enhance your Walking Workouts
For years, experts have been telling us to get up and get walking! But can becoming healthy and fit be as easy as putting on a pair of sneakers and heading out the door?
It’s true: walking is a great place to start on the road to a healthy, fit body. 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. But to supercharge your workout, consider a new way of walking: interval walking.
In essence, interval walking is simply doing interval training during your walking workouts. This interval training will supercharge your walking workout routine.
Interval training is all about increasing your heart rate at short bursts, so this technique might take some getting used to, but it’s 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, record a workout tape or mp3 mix. 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 your 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.
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Walking As Exercise – The Complete Guide.
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