4-Week Walk: Day 21
Here's another easy way I've found to lose some extra weight without making a major life change. Not only that, but it's made me more productive in getting things done,…
4-Week Walk: Day 20
Today is another one of those longer walks at a moderate pace… but what if you’re pressed for time?
The plain fact is, sometimes you just can’t carve out 45 minutes to an hour to spend on exercising. Not all at once, anyway.
The good news is — you don’t have to!
Burn Fat in Your Spare Time
It turns out, you get the same calorie-burning benefits if you break up the long walk into, say, 3 – 4 walks of 10 – 15 minutes each.
Ten minutes?
That’s do-able!
That’s a brisk walk to work, another on your lunch hour (when you need to get out anyway), and one more after supper. Take the dog out around the block, or walk the kids to the park. Just don’t do your walk to the donut shop, and it’ll be fine…
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4-Week Walk: Day 19
So, here's what the Prevention.com site says about today's walking program: Welcome back! You should be rejuvenated after yesterday's rest day. Huh? Well, I knew that something wasn't quite right…
Rock the Housework, Lose the Rolls
Dance while you clean! Listening to music makes an exercise program go better, so why not bop your way through the housework chores, too? Yes, we've harped on this before…
4-Week Walk: Day 18
Well into the 3rd week of our 4-Week Walk for Weight Loss, I realize I've learned a few things. Music Rocks the Walk It seems that you're likely to do…
4-Week Walk: Day 17
My older sister is very athletic. That is something of an understatement, actually. She's the one who does marathons and triathlons. The one who swims across the lake while the…
4-Week Walk: Day 16
Just 30 minutes of walking today, including the warm-up and cool-down bits — and I see that the same walk is on my Prevention.com walking for weight loss calendar for tomorrow as well… and then again later in the week.
This is strange.
Wouldn’t you think, here in the third week of the program, that we’d be asked to really rev up the effort?
To be honest, looking ahead over the calendar… I’m pretty sure that someone at Prevention has made a mistake!
See, this is why the world needs its persnickety editors.
But I digress…
Day 16:
5 minute warm-up
20 minutes walk at level 6
5 minute cool-down
stretching
5 minute warm-up
20 minutes walk at level 6
5 minute cool-down
stretching
As I say, I’m pretty sure that the Prevention.com site has the exercise program for this week all mixed up, but never mind — I’m going to follow it anyway.
Exactly as written.
To the letter.
Why?
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