Cardio For Weight Loss

Walking for weight loss is a very underrated exercise. There are a few reasons for this. Walking doesn’t deplete your glycogen stores anywhere near as high intensity. This means that you won't be hungry or as hungry as you would be with another high intensity exercise; therefore, it will be easier to stick to your caloric deficit. Walking is going to be easier to stick to due to it being relatively easy, meaning we will be more likely to stick to it. In addition to this walking is a low impact exercise (meaning it generally is inclusive for everyone).

However, we don’t all have the time to be walking for an hour each day. So if we are short for time higher intensity exercise has to be the go to.  I personally don’t believe exercise selection makes a huge difference if the intensity is high. There isn’t a certain exercise which will burn way more calories than another with the same amount of effort and intensity put in. Therefore, I would always choose an exercise which you enjoy and doesn’t cause you any pain whether that be a HIIT class, an accumulator or a cardio machine.

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Below is examples of different intensity’s/levels of walking.