Fitness Walk Walk Walk

If you are just starting out with a new commitment to fitness the best place to start is with a regularly scheduled walk

. Fitness is about creating new habits, one of the toughest of which is just to create a time where you workout regularly. Once you succeed in doing this, you can slowly ramp up the intensity of your workout over time.

Walking is a highly underrated form of exercise. Just think about how extensively the military uses walking (marching) as a drill to get their soldiers in tip top shape. If its works for the military then its something we should have in our arsenal of effective exercises.

If you have been inactive for some time, walking is a great way to get back into activity without risking injury. Too often I see people do too much, too soon and end up injuring themselves or simply becoming discouraged because they have bit off more than they can chew.

Your fitness workout routine should progress over time. Walking can turn into speed walking, then into slow jogging, then faster jogging, then maybe a sprint program. You may get a set of light dumbbells, a weighted vest, or simply pack a backpack, and go walking with weight. Find a some hilly terrain or a hilly part of town and go walking up and down hills. Walk up and down sets of stairs in a high rise. Take two steps at time. There are lots of possibilities to turn walking in to more intense workouts.

But before ramping it up, the important thing is just to go out for a leisurely walk on a regularly scheduled basis. Whether you walk your walk to work or go for a walk after dinner, you have a set time where you walk for 30 minutes to an hour four or five times a week. Do this for four weeks just working this change into your schedule.

For the next four weeks make it a brisk walk. Keep a good pace for the entire duration of your walk. When that four weeks is done begin to jog just a little during your walk. A great way to ease into jogging is to jog until you are tired then walk, once youve got your energy back jog some more. Go back and forth between jogging and walking trying to extend the time you are jogging so that hopefully, by then end of these four weeks, you can jog your entire usual route.

At this point you will have been exercise for a total of twelve weeks slowly ramping up your intensity. You will have carved out a regular time each day for your fitness workout routine. Now how you decide to ramp up your workout is up to you. Maybe you stick to jogging trying to improve your time over the next few months. Maybe you start to add in some strength exercises like push ups, crunches, and lunges. Maybe you join a gym. Its up to you what you want to try first.

Over the course of your fitness life, you should and will try many different forms of fitness, exercise, and sport. This keeps things interesting and challenging. And you will want to continue to be challenged as you prove to yourself that you can climb any mountain in front of you. You can do amazing things if you just put your mind to it.

by: Niall Traynor

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