it’s possible lose weight without going to the gym every day. In fact, the infallible formula to lose weight consists of improving eating and moving more. And to achieve the purpose, you only need something as cheap and simple as walk, that apart from being a healthy habit, it contributes to making us feel good.
The World Health Organization states that to be healthy you have to move 10,000 steps a day. Only with that movement (it will be about 8 kilometers more or less every 24 hours) you can already prevent diseases such as obesity. But if you put in a little more effort, just 5,000 more steps, you can even lose weight or lose weight.
On average, a person walks around about 2,000 steps in a mile and burns about 100 calories. To lose a kilo a week, we would need to burn about 1,000 calories a day, which would be equivalent to walking 7.5 kilometers approximately.
Talking about steps remains at a somewhat abstract level; If we want to translate it into how much time we should invest to lose weight walking, the following parameters will help us: between 22 and 30 minutes a day for five days a week, for a basic level it will be enough to start with this routine.
The benefits of walking fast for the body
Walk fast improves muscle response, increases calorie consumption and facilitates weight controlactivates cardiac circulation and generates, lowers cholesterol and glucose levels, contributes to blood pressure control and improves respiratory, intestinal and sexual functions.
This has been confirmed by the specialist in Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation of Policlínica Guipúzcoa, Eduardo Joywho recalled that normal walking is “not the same” as fast walking and that the speed at which it is carried out is important to assess the benefits that this practice brings to health.
In fact, various studies, including research carried out by the University of Sydney (Australia), published in the ‘British Journal of Sports Medicine’, have shown that increasing the speed at which one walked could lengthen life expectancy.
how can you get it
Measuring the steps you take in your day to day is simple. You just have to get one smart bracelet or with a mobile application (The iPhone, for example, has the Health application as standard). Thanks to these devices you will achieve the best results.
achieve the 15,000 steps a day is easy if you organize. The important thing is also that you do it throughout the day. Divide your workday. Find excuses to go get a document or go to the bathroom and thus you will be able to add more steps. When you finish the day, before throwing yourself on the sofa, take a walk. If you need it, look for excuses: go to a supermarket further away than the one you have under your house or go up the stairs to your house, leaving the elevator aside.
Activity bracelets are not only for sports as it is believed. If we need to control our heart activity, our blood pressure, suffer from insomnia or need to lose weight, these bracelets are recommended for comprehensive monitoring that allows for better diagnoses and controls.