More Effective Brisk Walk for Weight Loss

Brisk walking for 45 minutes a day is effective. However, I have brisk-walking colleagues in our subdivision who have been doing it for years and yet never lose weight. Worse, some of them even seem to gain more weight doing it. What's the problem here? So I share here some tips for a more effective brisk walk for weight loss.

Do you lift your legs or do you just drag your feet when brisk walking? You need to put a little galloping action to your steps and make them wide enough to exert effort that really works. Do the same for your jogging. I see lots of people just lazily drag their feet on the ground to avoid getting tired too quickly. You should lift your legs high enough to produce a bouncing or galloping action each step--but not too high to make you look awkward.

To avoid getting tired too quickly, make sure your breathing is in rhythm with your steps. If you walk in such a way that you don't get enough oxygen, you'd tire easily. Your step, bounce, slight body sway and breathing should all have normal and good rhythm. How you do it naturally is the correct way of doing it. If you do brisk walking correctly, you'd not get exhausted quickly. In fact, you'd feel stronger after the 45-minute workout. and burn more fat.

Next, do you push your stomach in as you brisk walk? This helps burn fat especially around the waist and tummy areas. When your tummy muscles feel too tired, release and relax them for 1 or 2 minutes and then resume stomach-in. Tighten muscles as much as you can while brisk walking to give you a more effective brisk walk for weight loss.

Do you sway your body trunk a bit? Swaying your trunks while assuming stomach-in position in effect "wrings" or "squeezes" fat in your stomach. Do it like walkathon athletes do it. I've found stomach-in and trunk twisting very helpful in trimming my tummy and getting rid of my love-handles.

Then, do you do uphill climbs? Use a terrain that affords long uphill climbs for your brisk walk. As you do your wide steps on reclining surfaces, anchor your forward foot and pull yourself up for the next step, using your stomach muscles in the process. This is so effective and gives a satisfying, feel-good effect.

Finally, do you take non-acidic Vitamin C? Fat burning through brisk walks is made more effective if you regularly take non-acidic Vitamin C, like Vital-C which I take 3 to 5 times a day for weight loss, energy, and immune boost. Vitamin C is found to be an effective ally for a more effective brisk walk for weight loss. But it should be non-acidic with a vegetable capsule as Vital-C has.