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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Are Short Walks Good for Weight Loss?
Many of us can find 15 minutes here and there during the day to walk. While walking for 15 minutes can certainly help you lose weight and improve your stamina and overall health and well-being, it will not help you burn as many calories as walking steadily for 45 minutes or an hour. Combining your short 15-minute walks into one long steady walk will definitely be more beneficial, but you will need to weigh the benefits against what you are doing, what you enjoy, and what fits into your schedule.
Longer walks (45 minutes to an hour) help your body to burn off the available sugars (or glycogen) that it has stored up. After the sugars are burned off the body can begin to burn fat and walking for longer periods of time gives the body the extended period of time it needs to begin this process. Another advantage for taking longer walks is that you may burn a bit more fat each day. Your body replaces the burned glycogen either through the calories you eat or through breaking down stored fat. If you eat more calories than your body needs, it stores it right back again as fat. Diet and exercise, together, is the key to losing weight.
Consider taking longer walks each day to maximize the burning of calories and ultimately weight loss.
Longer walks (45 minutes to an hour) help your body to burn off the available sugars (or glycogen) that it has stored up. After the sugars are burned off the body can begin to burn fat and walking for longer periods of time gives the body the extended period of time it needs to begin this process. Another advantage for taking longer walks is that you may burn a bit more fat each day. Your body replaces the burned glycogen either through the calories you eat or through breaking down stored fat. If you eat more calories than your body needs, it stores it right back again as fat. Diet and exercise, together, is the key to losing weight.
Consider taking longer walks each day to maximize the burning of calories and ultimately weight loss.
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