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Walking

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Summary

Effectiveness

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Well-established benefits for activity and health; the aesthetic effect depends above all on the volume of walking, the diet and the starting point.

Accessibility

3/3

A simple activity, without specific equipment, which can be integrated into travel and daily breaks.

Walking is one of the simplest ways to increase your daily activity. It maintains endurance, adds energy expenditure and allows you to move without organizing each trip like a sports session. For the figure, its interest comes mainly from this regular accumulation: it complements the diet and bodybuilding in the management of fat mass.

Get more into the habit of going out, taking short trips on foot and using the stairs. These opportunities for movement accumulate during the day; a walk can complement them whenever you feel like it. You don't need to immediately reach 10,000 steps: start from your daily life and choose habits that are easy to maintain all year round.

Sources

  1. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · NBK566046 (new tab)
  2. Walking for health (new tab)
  3. sciencedirect.com · S2468266725001641 (new tab)
  4. The effect of walking on fitness, fatness and resting blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomised, controlled trials (new tab)

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