A Simple Walking Program
For Weight Loss

Will you lose weight with this walking program?

Yes, absolutely. You will lose weight!

How much weight will you lose? A lot! It can be the key to you having the body you want.

And the best part? It's easy. And free!

The pleasure of a nice walk

If you haven't done it in a while you might not know, but walking can be one of life's pleasures. A nice walk can get you "away from it all."

It can be a time to turn off life and its worries. It can be a little vacation for yourself, a time with no ringing phones, no blaring television, no commercials, no interruptions, nothing but a time to stretch your legs and get some air in your lungs and air out your head a little.

Its a chance to get out there in the fresh air and clean out the cobwebs.

So here is my advice about a walking program:

• Get some good shoes. It's no picnic to walk when your feet hurt.
  

• Wear comfortable clothes. And wear layers if it's cool. You need to be able to take off the outside layer because you are going to warm up.
  

• Go somewhere. A treadmill is better than nothing, but you cannot compare a treadmill to a walk outdoors. On a treadmill you get only a little of the benefit you get from a real walk. So it is not the best use of your time. You want to maximize the benefits, and you can only do this outdoors.
  

• The mall is better than nothing. But it is not like a walk outdoors. A walk outdoors gives you a chance to see new things. Maybe there are flowers in bloom. Or clouds in the sky. Or birds. Or a building from a new angle. Or just a bare patch of land.
  

• And then you walk. A new path is best. A new place each day, even if it is only one new block or alleyway, or the same street but the opposite direction.
  

• Step out briskly. You'll go farther. That way you can get somewhere new.
  

• Walk for an hour. You have that much time. And it will get you somewhere. You can get out of your neighborhood and see something new.
  

• Take a walking stick It helps with balance. It makes you feel like a real walker. And when you see it propped in the corner at home it reminds you that its time to take a walk.
  

• Be sure to look around. Don’t carry your troubles on the walk with you. Leave them at home. Maybe when you get back they won't seem as bad. This is also known as "take a vacation from your worries."

If you keep it up and have any reasonable kind of diet, in time you will get to your goal weight. Wouldn't that be nice?

When you start this walking program:

• You will improve your circulation.
• You will sleep better.
• You will feel better.
• You will be less depressed.
• You will tone up your muscles.
• You will burn calories.
• You will lose weight.

Everything there is to know about walking

Do you want to find out everything there is to know about walking?

Then you should take a look at Yoko & Geoff's website 50 Plus Fitness Walking.

They'll answer all your questions, from finding the right shoes -- to foot care -- to walking tips -- to finding the right walking program for you.

Get started

So do it. Get up and out and do it. If an hour is too much for you at first, then build up to it. If you can only make it to the corner and back, then do that. Tomorrow you can do a little more.

But don't sell yourself short. You can do more. And you want to see those pounds melt away, don't you?

Walking adds up to doing better, feeling better, looking better. That's a pretty big payoff for something so simple!

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