Walking Fitness to Reduce your Waist 

Walking is most natural form of exercise that a person can do.  A low impact exercise is good for the health as well as losing inches.  Walking doesn’t require any extra equipment except for a good pair of walking shoes.

If you’re over weight and a few inches bigger around the waistline than you want to be than walking is a good program for you.  Your weight has a lot to do with your health so lets get started and work on that waistline.

Along with the proper diet, a person can lose weight and inches by just walking.  Walking will strength up your lose muscles and tones at the same time.  By toning, your body up you’ll get rid of a few inches too.

Before starting, your walking plans make a goal for yourself.  How much weight and inches do you want to lose?  Chart it all down to keep track of your progress. Don’t get discouraged if you happen to gain a pound or two because when muscles grow stronger they have a tendency to weight more.  Just stay on track with the diet and walking five or more times a week.

Remember walking burns calories so the further you walk and the faster pace you go the more calories you’re burning.  Start out your walking exercises slow and work your way up the ladder picking up the pace at the same time.  

Warm ups need to be done for about 5 minutes before you walk and than cooling down 5 or 10 minutes after the walk.  As part of your warm, up and cool down time walk increase or decreasing your pace into the walking pace.  You want to warm up to get your muscles and joints loosened up, cool down to slow the heart rate, and bring the blood pressure back to its normal range.  

Your walking exercises it self should last at least 30 minutes.  During this 30 minutes each day you should be able to pick up the pace and walk further.  While your walking, take the talk test every once in awhile.  The talk test is if you can’t talk and breath while walking than your walking to fast so slow down some.  You want to be able to carry conservation with someone while your walking.

Make your walks creative and fun or you’ll be bored with them and won’t want to keep going.  Invite a friend to walk with you or even your family.  Make it a family outing for an hour every night and discuss how everyone’s day was or what would they like to do on vacation if you’re able to have one.  You are never too young or old to do walking exercising.  If you can put one foot ahead of the other than you can do this exercise program.  Making this a family outing makes everyone healthier and happy.

Walking will give you a boost of energy to help when you get home to cop with all the stress of being on a diet.  

Dieting and loosing weight is no fun for any of us so we all have to work together to help one another.  The energy you’ll start feeling as you begin to feel and look better will come to you so natural you probably won’t even notice it.  

Remember to keep charting in a journal how your progress. Enter things like your weight once a week and inches from your waistline.  Recording your progress on how the walking is progressing too along with making little notes about how your feeling and different things that are happening to you and your body. By keeping a record of you progresses you can look back and read all that has been changing in your life. This helps to keep you motivated and you’ll want to keep going once you’ve hit your goal.