Keep your ears in line with your shoulders and your chest up Occasionally, hill walk. Vary your routes to prevent boredom Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells. Leave your worries at home Keep a dairy to record your distance, route and how you felt While a consistent program of brisk walking will burn calories, aerobic activity is only one part of the battle plan. The other is muscle training, a form of exercise that requires 10 to 15 minutes of time twice a week. Muscle training is a great metabolism booster.
Fitness centres spend tens of thousands of dollars on state of the art muscle training equipment.
But you don't have to. And, your muscles will never know the difference. In my opinion, the best, most affordable apparatus on the market is resistance tubing. It's made of rubber and with handles on each end, looks like a skipping rope. If you can't find resistance tubing, consider buying free weights, also known as dumbbells.