The New Way of Walking to Lose Weight Faster and Relieve Back Pain
This new walking technique will help you lose weight quickly and provide many other benefits.
Walking a minimum of 150 minutes a week at a moderate pace can be extremely beneficial. Going for a walk every day helps you maintain a stronger, healthier body, strengthen muscles and bones, reduce the risk of strokes and heart problems, improve cholesterol levels, combat insomnia, and reduce anxiety, not to mention that it helps you lose weight.
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Walking has multiple benefits and forms. There is no single style of walking, and one of them has become especially popular because it allows you to lose weight quickly and is great for relieving back pain. We're talking about retro-walking.
The Surprising Benefits of Backward Walking
It's nothing new as such, given that it's part of sports training and rehabilitation protocols for chronic illnesses or various injuries, but this way of walking has several advantages worth considering. It consists solely of walking backward, which requires greater concentration. It can be done outdoors, finding a safe space to avoid falls, although the ideal would be to practice this technique in the gym, on a treadmill.
Backward walking is very beneficial because it requires less effort in the stride, which helps relieve back pain caused by conventional walking by reducing the lumbar angle and increasing muscle strength. Furthermore, this way of walking also strengthens the leg muscles, especially the quadriceps, and improves overall body balance, as it involves different body systems.
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Furthermore, walking backward significantly increases cardiorespiratory response, thus improving cardiovascular health. Finally, by requiring greater concentration, this technique activates the brain. Walking unnaturally forces the brain to work, making new connections.
As long as there are no previous balance or mobility problems, experts recommend walking one minute forward and one minute backward, alternating the direction of your walk for about 10 or 15 minutes. In addition to all the benefits listed above, retro-walking will help you lose weight much faster. Specifically, according to Jack McNamara, professor of Clinical Exercise Physiology at the University of East London, "one minute of walking backward burns the same number of calories as three minutes of walking forward." In other words, you can lose weight three times faster.
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