The Best Way to Burn More Calories: Walk Further
Build up to walk more miles/kilometers. Concentrate your training on building distance before you build speed, and walking five or six days a week. The calories burned by an extra few minutes of walking far overcome any other changes you can make.Calorie Calculators
Burn Calories While You Sleep
You can burn more calories, every hour, every day, even while sleeping by building up muscle. When you add muscle to your body, you are increasing your basal metabolic rate - the number of calories you burn each day at rest. We aren't talking about Schwarzenegger-like muscles, just toning your legs, arms, stomach and shoulders.- Absolute Beginner Walkers: You build leg muscles as you increase your walking time and distance. Concentrate on building the amount of time you spend walking.
- Seasoned Walkers: For those who have been walking for months or years, you will need to alter your walking style to build more muscles just from walking. Learning to racewalk, you would be building new muscle and burning more calories per mile.
- Not Interested in Racewalking: For those who are not interested in racewalking to build muscle, you should add some strength training to your weekly exercise schedule in addition to walking in order to build muscle.
Burn More Walking Calories per Mile
- Learn to Racewalk: At speeds over 13-minute mile rate you are burning more calories per mile as you use more muscle groups, as well as building muscle. How to Walk Faster.
- Use Walking Poles: Fitness walking poles such as Nordic Walker, Exerstrider sticks or Leki poles is an option for those who cannot walk fast and want to burn more calories per mile.
- Carry Extra Weight: I do not recommend doing this, but if you do it you should add no more than 10 pounds and wear it in a backpack or at your hips so your body can remain balanced and your posture is not thrown off. Walking with poor posture or adding weight to your arms or legs can lead to injury.
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