Fitness Walking

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Fast Walking Technique - How to Walk Faster
Fast Walking Technique - How to Walk Faster

Heart Zone Training
How to use heart zone training for cardiovascular fitness.

Weekly Walking Workouts
Walking workouts - a weekly walking workout schedule to build speed, endurance, and aerobic capacity.

Lift Slow - Get Fit Fast
Lift slow and get fit fast - super slow weight training to build muscle and burn calories

Measuring Fitness Progress
How to measure progress towards your fitness goals using body fat measurements and resting heart rate.

Cardiovascular Exercise Principles and Guidelines
Cardiovascular Exercise Principles and Guidelines

Lower Body Exercises
Walking is great exercise for the lower body, but it doesn't target all of your leg muscles equally. It is good to crosstrain with lower body workouts a couple of times a week. Here, some lower body exercises to try.

Upper Body Exercises
Upper body exercises for lats, biceps, triceps, shoulders.

Turn Around the Negative Self-Talk
Learn to avoid negative thinking and negative self-talk, and how to choose to be positive.

Walking Fitness Toolbox
Fitness toolbox for walkers including calculators.

My Chair - An Exercise Ball
Using an exercise ball as a desk chair

Walk More, Walk Faster
Walk further faster and more often for health benefits, according to the CDC.

Circuit Training
Circuit Training - add more moves to your workout

Using a Heart Rate Monitor
How to use a heart rate monitor and your heart rate zones to guide your walking workouts.

Heart Rate Monitors
Heart rate monitors can help guide your walking workout. How to choose a heart rate monitor.

Walking Resolution Central
New Years Resolutions for walkers - to start walking, train for a marathon or half-marathon, lose weight.