How to Lose More Weight During Your Walking Routine

Not quite ready to run, but still want to lose more weight during your walking routine? Take the faster route to burning more calories with these quick, simple exercise-maximizing tips.

Instructions

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  Start burning more calories and losing more weight during your walking routine by making your body guess. While you may not be ready to run a marathon yet, you can likely jog a few minutes at a time. Alternate jogging with running for a calorie burning blast.

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  Go all-terrain. While walking on a treadmill has its merits, walking outdoors and facing hills, uneven ground, gravel, dirt and more forces the body to work harder. Translation: more calories are burned and more weight is lost during each walking session.

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  Alternate your arm movements. While you don't have to carry weights with you while you walk, you can still increase weight loss and calorie burn by pumping your arms harder and in various directions. Pumping across the body and above the head works wonders and gets the heart rate up in no time. You don't have to continue this step all throughout your workout. Intermittent bursts are effective as well!

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  Select a music arsenal full of tunes with beats that are in sync with your heartbeat/pulse during your optimal workout pace. Doing so increases the efficiency of a walking workout, so choose your MP3 must-haves accordingly.