Things You'll Need:
- An interest in walking for fitness and learning walking for fitness tips.
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Step 1
Swing your arms when walking for fitness. When you swing your arms while walking, you burn more calories. You also involve your upper body in a form of exercise that is mainly known for working your lower body.
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Step 2
When walking for fitness, walk briskly. Don’t stroll at a leisurely pace. Don't get me wrong. Strolling is great and it certainly has its place in all of our lives. But when you are walking for fitness, you want to elevate your heart rate and burn calories. This of course means that you need to walk at a brisker pace than when you are simply walking for fun.
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Step 3
Hand weights can further enhance your walking for fitness efforts, not just by involving your upper body in your walking for fitness regimen, but also by adding some resistance, which burns more calories and helps build lean muscle.
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Step 4
Hand weights are not every fitness walker’s "cup of tea," however. You may prefer to use an adjustable walking jacket fitted with resistance weights. (You can add or remove weight as needed to create either a more or less challenging walking for fitness workout.)
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Step 5
If you live near a beach, you may want to do at least some of your walking for fitness right on the beach, because walking in the sand (wet sand or dry sand) can add some useful resistance to your regimen.
