Fitness walking is an aerobic exercise – it not only keeps you fit but it helps you slim, burning off around 180 calories every 30 minutes (150lb/68kg person walking briskly at 3.5 – 4.0 mph). It speeds up your metabolic rate – the time taken to burn calories. If you walk in the low to moderate range of your target heart rate, you will burn stored fat as fuel after the first 20 minutes. And the longer you walk, the more fat you will burn.

Combined with the Easy Exercise & Diet Plan, fitness walking is the perfect weight management plan. You don’t need to count calories. Making permanent changes in your eating habits rather than ‘going on a diet’ is the key to it all.

Barbara Minshull is a fully qualified YMCA Centre of Excellence Personal Trainer, a qualified IIST Sports Therapist, GP Exercise referral Consultant, Falls Prevention Trainer, Otago & Postural Stability Instructor, British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation (BACR) instructor & Modern Pilates tutor, holding membership of the Level 4 Specialist Exercise Instructor on the Register of Exercise Professionals.