If this winter you have to find fun ways to make treadmill walking your way of counting pedometer steps then add some incentive by trying virtual walks. In a previous walking to lose weight post I talked about and then featured virtual walks, and had a lot of fun doing it. Part of the reward is learning about interesting things to do and plan trips or activites for the future. I know that eventually I will do that 6 day luxury walking tour of Rocamadour. I can see how walking about 25 kilometers daily will create the perfect environment for gourmet meals and wine at night! Although cruises and wine valley tours are wonderful, afterwards the participants tend to look puffed up instead of fit and glamerous.
This year my suggestion for designing a virtual walk is to do one million steps in 90 days. This averages at 11,111 pedometer steps daily for 90 days. Do you want to make your first million? This could do it for you.
Inside the home look at your own equipment such as a treadmill (or treadmill desk for in the office), exercise DVDs which contain aerobic or high calorie impact movements (preferably which show up as pedometer steps) or something like the Wii Fit which has a great running exercise where you can freestyle in front of your favourite TV program, all the while keeping track of distance and your faithful pedometer looks after the steps.
Anyone using the 10,000 or more steps a day target for weight loss should start thinking about how to keep going in winter, now.
I have noticed that the gym classes consist of not so many attendees during the colder months but those who are there are slim, and the same classes are full with half the class overweight in summer. Obvious lesson- to stay slim forever keep the exercise program going, once you’ve lost weight and during the less fun months.
