Have you thought about all you can lose if you don’t walk? Lots of things! A good sunny day, meeting a friend, the blossoming of flowers. But there are other benefits associated with daily walks, perhaps not so noticeable to the senses, but decisive for your well-being. Walking you will live longer and have a better life.
- Walking is the best way to slim down. In combination with a proper diet, walking helps to get rid of excess pounds and maintain the ideal weight, as metabolism is a set of physical and chemical changes that take place in the cells and that provide the energy for the organism to grow and function.
- When walking, the energy expenditure in the scope of this metabolic process increases in a lasting way, even if the activity is interrupted for a short period, which helps to lose weight. This is due, in part, to the increase in muscle mass, which in turn speeds up the basal metabolism, the consumption of calories at rest, the minimum our body needs to continue living.
- Walking daily has a post-consumer metabolic effect. The body continues to burn more calories in less time for several hours, even after the walk is over.
- Walking increases catabolism, the destruction of fat cells (adipocytes), which allows you to reduce the percentage of adipose tissue accumulated in the body.
- Walking after meals facilitates the digestion of food by producing a natural massage of the digestive and urinary tract, which translates into less accumulation of fluids and stomach bloating, and more regular absorption of nutrients.
- This type of light exercise gives very good results with less effort and in a short time, as walking at a good pace can burn as many calories as an intense exercise like running.
- After 20 minutes of walking, you begin to burn accumulated fat as fuel, and the more you walk, the more fat you burn. At a speed of five to six kilometers per hour (advancing between 60 and 70 percent of our capacity, which is considered a good pace), about 200 calories are lost every half hour.
