There are a number of ways to add more walking into your day. Try taking the stairs instead of the elevator, pace around while talking on the telephone, leave the office and go for a brisk walk during your lunch break, or get off of your bus/train stop a station earlier and walk the rest of the way.
Improve your circulation, enhance your mood, lower your risk for Alzheimer’s disease and live a longer, healthier life just by walking.
1. You Burn Fat
Excess body fat is very dangerous to your health. Walking can actually help you burn more fat, it boosts your metabolism and heart rate. According to research, “if you walk to lose belly fat, you need to walk at a steady speed fast enough so your heart beats faster and causing you to breathe harder and deeper. The only way to lose body fat, especially belly fat, is by burning more calories than you consume.”
2. Boosts Your Metabolism
Walking increases your demand for energy which results in an increase in your metabolism. Live Strong explains: “Brisk walking uphill or walking moderately for an extended duration of one hour are ways you can rev up your metabolism when walking.”
3. Stronger Legs
Walking builds strength and endurance. This leads to stronger legs, especially stronger calves and hamstrings. For the ultimate leg workout, try walking hills, climbing stairs and walking on more challenging terrain.
4. Helps Digestion
Taking a walk after dinner helps with digestion. It stimulates your digestive track making it easy for your food to be digested. According to LifeHacker, “two different studies have shown that a post-meal walk can aid in digestion. One study in 2008 showed that walking sped the rate at which food moved through the stomach. Other studies have shown that walking also decreases blood sugar after meals, which decreases cardiovascular risk and potential signal diabetes.”
5. Your Body Releases Tension
Walking warms up your muscles and stretches them through motion. According to research, “gentle walking is the best exercise to help gently stretch out your muscles through motion. Take long strides and gently swing your arms to get the full stretching benefits.”
6. Vitamin D
Go for a walk outside (The Most Surprising Sources of Vitamin D) and absorb all of the Vitamin D you can. According to research, “our body creates most of our vitamin D from direct sunlight on our skin.” It is essential for healthy bones and teeth.
7. Mental Clarity
Walking has incredible stress and anxiety relief benefits. It has been proven that taking a walk could actually direct your brain into a calmer state of mind. Research has shown that “walking briskly or jogging really does calm you down by sparking nerve cells in the brain that relax the senses.”
8. Better Night's Sleep
Trouble sleeping? Taking a walk before bed will help keep you up less often at night. According to various studies, exercise boosts the effect of the natural sleep hormone melatonin.
9. Strengthen Your Heart Walking is one of the easiest ways to strengthen your heart. It is a form of aerobic exercise; it increases your heart rate and blood circulation through the body, and it brings more oxygen and nutrients to the organs.
10. Better Mood
Walking boosts endorphins, which puts you in a better mood. According to a recent study, “employees who took a 30-minute walk at lunchtime felt more enthusiastic and more relaxed in the afternoon than those who didn’t trek outdoors.” Walking also promotes a positive mood and wellbeing.
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