Posts Tagged ‘Walking’

Walking: Aerobic Exercise for Weight Loss

walking: aerobic exercise for weight lossWalking is an aerobic exercise par excellence, to lose weight. This daily activity you do regularly, almost without realizing it, helps you lose weight so as to strengthen the principal of your muscles, the heart. Try it, you lose weight walking and your body will thank you.

Aerobic exercise is one exercise that requires oxygen to complete. Different aerobic exercise:

- Walk
- Run
- Bicycling
- Swim
-Remo, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Taking More Steps to Lower Cholesterol

Physical exercise is widely known as a health-promoting tool, however, increase the amount of physical activity may give you more benefits, such as taking more steps to lower cholesterol. A report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine confirms and validates.

The study was conducted by Professor Peter T. Katzmarzyk, the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The metabolic syndrome, among which is the high level of low density cholesterol, which can work both overweight people, such as those with normal weight.

The research showed that those who walked more were the group with less percentage of metabolic syndrome. The group walked more than 10.000 steps a day. Whereas it is a walking pace of 100 steps per minute, in half an hour can be done 3000 steps. Read the rest of this entry »