Walking for slimming down
By viru1981
@viru1981 (95)
India
February 18, 2011 10:27am CST
Hello everyone
I have been walking briskly daily for 45 minutes for almost 30 days now, but I am finding that I am not losing any significant weight. What could be the reason? A long duration of moderate paced exercise like brisk walking is one of the best ways to lose weight???
4 responses
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
19 Feb 11
Perhaps it is too short ,45minutes for 30days.walking is helpful to your health,meanwhile you must take care of diet,eat less fat,eat more vegetables,as far as possible not to eat midnight snack.
@naija4real (1291)
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18 Feb 11
Walking alone will not reduce your size. You need to review your diet drastically to make you have a great shape. Avoid eating too much fatty food especially diet with high cholestrol. Make sure you eat lots of vegetables and fruits. This will make you to loose weight. Also continue your regular exercise such as walking
@amirev777 (4117)
• India
18 Feb 11
Hi Viru,
Yes you are right -the majority of exercisers, like yourself, today still rely on long duration moderate paced aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, as their primary routine to burn fat fast. But recent studies have shown that this is a big, I mean big mistake. In fact, you could say that the whole aerobics explosion of a few decades past was one of the biggest mistakes in the health and fitness industry. Why?
There are several reasons, but I'll focus on the two main issues here. When you exercise at a moderate pace for extended periods of time (as in the typically recommended percent of your target heart rate), your body is burning fat during the exercise. While this may sound good, it's actually bad news.
This sends a signal to your body to keep a certain amount of stored fat available for your next workout. You're essentially telling it that it needs fat available to burn, because you?ll be doing this exercise again. So while we may be burning some calories during this exercise, after the exercise is over, our body begins storing up some fat for the next workout. Obviously not what we're looking for in terms of maximum ability to burn fat fast.
The other big concern with moderately paced aerobic exercise performed several times per week is that it trains your body (heart, lungs, muscles, etc.) to become efficient. Again, this may sound good, but what is actually happening is bad for long term health. You are working only within your existing aerobic limits, without improving your aerobic capacity.
This is important because your aerobic capacity is what determines how your body responds in times of physical, emotional, and mental stress. If you reduce your capacity for work, as you do in this type of exercise, you?re reducing your long term health, no to mention a poor chance of burning fat.
The good news is, you can reverse these effects by instead focusing your workouts on high intensity resistance training, with workouts that last 15-20 minutes on average, and can only be performed 2-3 times per week.
These workouts will burn carbohydrates instead of fat during the workout, and will cause your body to use its fat stores to replenish the burned carbs over the next 24 hours, after the workout is done
@lowloy (316)
• United States
18 Feb 11
Walking is a very good way to loose weight, but other measures need to take place at the same time. A proper diet of correct portion sizes, reduced sodium, drink mainly water, reduce fat content, and doctor reccomendations. Your doctor will know what is best for you because of heart history, diabetes, and other issues that are with you. If the doctor reccomends this without any speaches then go for it. Again do other things besides walking to ensure the best for you. Learn how to read for labels if you don't already know. What I look for on the food label is fat less then 7%, sodium less than 400mg, carbohydrates 20 or above, protein about 4grams or above. This is for me though. Carbohydrates are good for exercising, but if you don't exercise then reduce your carb intake.
Good luck with all of this; it is not hard. I forgot while walking keep your body as straight as possible, don't look down too much.



