Burning calories with low impact movement — for any age and fitness level

If you would like to choose walking as one of your ways to maintain body weight, then there are a few things you need to become more aware of.

Walking at a regular and fast pace will help you to accelerate your calories burnt, and you will be able to get a lot more out of your walk, in a shorter amount of time.

To get the most out of your walk, you do have to go the distance. Think about scheduling in 1.6km or even 112km. Yes, I know this is a lot, but think about achieving a more considerable walking distance, within these few ways:

Four ways to increase your walking distance, without eating up your day

1. Don’t drive or take a bus — get around walking everywhere that you can (and time permits)
2. Break up your walking during mornings, lunch and then again in the afternoons.
3. If you have a pet, walk them as much as you can
4. Walk the long way to get to your destination.

I can exhaust the many creative ways you can go about finding ways to increase your walking times, as well as your step count. But I’d like you to keep in mind that like anything in life that’s done repetitively, you can and will probably get bored. I have some ways in which you can…