Walk Fast Everywhere You Go

Another cause of excess weight gain today is people's dislike for walking, and especially walking fast. For instance, in Manila, you'd see folks riding tricycles and pedicabs for traveling short distances. They ride public jeeps and want to be dropped at the very exact place they want to, not an inch further or an inch short.

However, if you always walk fast (and I mean walk fast), you have better chances of burning more calories. Look at this--generally, a 150-pound guy walking at a speed rate of 2 to 3 and a half miles each hour burns something like 80 calories a mile. The heavier you are doing this, walking faster, the more calories you burn. If you make it a habit to walk that fast wherever you go--and not just during your walking workouts--you'd lose more weight and stay slim even with zero diet.

With the kind of fast food and fancy drinks they take today, they need to always walk and walk fast. And that's another problem I just mentioned--there's a lot of fast food around but so little fast walking going on. Most times, this alone causes all the obesity, terrible weight gain, and ailments that happens. And we don't realize that all it usually takes is to walk more often, and faster.

Don't walk fast only during your brisk walk sessions. Walk fast each time you walk--on corridors, sidewalks, in malls, going to and from rooms or corners in your house or office, going to the street-corner store, etc.

Take as fewer rides as possible when going places. If it's reachable by walking--or climbing up stairs--always do so.