Fitness Through Living
Life Boost - fitness
Walking Program
It's All About Fun Through Fitness
It's all about optimum heart rate.....
Form makes it right !
Basic Approach to Our Walking Programs
Nordic Pole Walking
Advanced "Compression" Walking
"Treadmill Walking" - Our walking program starts in the gym with the treadmill. Walking regularly on a treadmill helps you maintain a healthy musculoskeletal system, which includes your muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons and joints. As a weight-bearing exercise, treadmill walking exerts a pulling force on your bones that helps prevent age-related bone loss. Walking also tones the muscles of your legs and buttocks. Adjusting the treadmill to an incline position improves the toning effect on your legs. This is where we assess form and rhythm.
"Brisk Walking", "Speed Walking" or "Fitness Walking", also called power walking, is a walking style where you walk faster than you normally would in your day-to-day activities. Therefore you have to work on your breathing and endurance, and you exercise almost every muscle in your body. Power walking is the act of walking with a speed at the upper end of the natural range for the walking gait, typically 4.5 to 5.5 mph.
"Interval Walking" - Walking is the foundation of the workout — you will walk to warm up, cool down, and recover from the hard effort of the intervals. Once we progress you further along we will introduce you to this style. It is basically structurered around 30 second quick walks....30 second body weight exercises and 30 second walks......5 to 6 exercises over 20 minutes......face paced....fat buring.....
"Water Walking" - walking in the water may be more effective than a similar trek on land. All factors being equal, walking one mile in the water provides a workout similar to walking two miles on land, burning up to twice the calories in the same amount of time. And the body's buoyancy in water reduces impact on joints and provides a lower risk of injury. Also, because water's density creates resistance against your body, it forces muscles to work harder -- so underwater exercise is almost like working out with weights.
"Hill Walking" - When you walk up hills, you are moving vertically. This forces you to work with more effort. Not only can you lose weight by hill walking, but you can also tone multiple lower body muscles. The glutes and hamstrings, for example, are involved with knee flexion and hip extension. While walking on flat ground, there is a minimal amount of stress on these muscles. Once you walk up hill, you need to actively contract these muscles to make it to the top. The same holds true with the calves. These muscles are on the lower back part of the legs, and they get worked when your toes point down. This is called planter flexion, and when you walk up hills, you have to forcefully contract your calves.
Nordic Pole Walking
Our Main Walking Style
At LifeBoost - fitness we utilize most styles of walking in our Walking Program. However, with our focus on "Functional Movement" while incorporating compound muscle exercises we have selected Nordic Pole Walking as our main style for the following reasons..
"Nordic Pole Walking - is a total body version of walking that can be enjoyed both by non-athletes as a health-promoting physical activity, and by athletes as a sport. The activity is performed with specially designed walking poles similar to ski poles. Compared to regular walking, Nordic walking (also called pole walking) involves applying force to the poles with each stride. Nordic walkers use more of their entire body (with greater intensity) and receive fitness building stimulation not present in normal walking for the chest, latissimus dorsi muscle, triceps, biceps, shoulder, abdominals, spinal and other core muscles that may result in significant increases in heart rate at a given pace. Nordic walking has been estimated as producing up to a 46% increase in energy consumption, compared to walking without poles.
