Avail of all the benefits of walking and get going!

An easy and effective way of doing exercise is fashionable all over the world: walking.

We are not talking about just strolling, but rather about walking at a quick, constant pace. In the United States, they call it power walking. As you know, they love to add terms that motivate, that encourage people to do things. And it must work because a lot of famous personalities are doing it.

But haven’t we been walking all our lives? What’s so good about it?

1. It strengthens your heart, stimulates circulation and reduces blood pressure. It therefore helps reduce the risk of suffering hearth disease by almost 27%.
2. You reduce your bad cholesterol or LDL and raise the levels of good cholesterol. This helps eliminate the risk of fatty plaques in arteries and angina or heart attacks.
3. You control your sugar levels in the blood, which is vital for people suffering from diabetes.
4. You prevent diseases, like some types of cancer, because it reinforces the immune system.
5. You burn calories, so it helps control your weight. Thirty minutes a day at an average speed of five kilometres an hour, a moderate pace, burns about 150 calories. The longer you train, and the fitter you are, the greater the number of calories you burn.
6. It tones the muscles of your legs, your buttocks and your abdominals. Walk with your back straight, your head high and your shoulders back. Step on the sole of your foot, not just your heel and keep your abdominals tight in order to have a firmer tummy.
7. Move your arms. It will tone your shoulders, triceps and biceps and raise the number of calories burnt. Nordic walking uses poles for support on each step, thus adding to the leg movement and creating exercise for the upper body.
8. You strengthen your bones and, in addition, sunlight helps you synthesise vitamin D, indispensable for calcium for your skeleton.
9. It helps you rest, because it segregates melatonin which encourages sleep.
10. It improves your state of mind and relieves you from stress and anxiety as it segregates happy hormones.

Before setting out, follow this advice:

• Wear the proper footwear. With cushioning and make sure it’s breathable.
• Do it in This will help you socialise and make it more fun.
• Change routes. Otherwise it will get boring and you’ll look for an excuse not to go.
• Set yourself a challenge in your Inhealth platform, synchronise your activity bracelet and increase the distance and time according to your progress.
• Warm up before you start and stretch your leg muscles. End up by stretching well and breathing deeply through your nose.

Now you are ready, get hooked on hiking or walk around your city.

Check its benefits and enjoy.

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