Incline Fat Burning
In all my efforts to tone up, lose weight, and everything like that through the years, I have found one thing. Well, I correct myself, I’ve found out a lot of things. But there is one thing that has been more recent and more to the credit of a friend who was on a sudden kick to lose weight whereas mine has mostly been to maintain. Anyway, part of what I’ve learned is that while running is great, running is good, running helps you to stay in shape, it is not always the best way to lose weight. If you have sensitive knee joints among other things, it makes it literally impossible to keep doing it. In addition, it takes some serious work, and you could really get the same caloric burning qualities doing something else. They say you should do interval training, but that gets extremely tiring extremely fast, especially in the beginning.
Anyway, back to the alternative. The best thing to do is walking. Now if your knees are really bad, I would suggest just walking on a level surface. But whether you have a hill near your house or a gym with treadmills, the incline is the best thing since some kind of diet pill. A small incline makes a small difference to some degree. But a big incline is somewhat of a fat killer.
From what I’ve seen with myself and with others, the best way to do it sometimes is to put your treadmill if you are going that way at a 15 incline, which is essentially the highest you can get, and it is steep. You can still walk up it, but it’s considerably high up. Anyway, while at a lower incline, you should walk faster. It depends on your leg length in part. While 3.5 is a relatively high walking speed for someone with my leg length, some of you may be able to go up to 4 or 4.5mph. It’s a relative thing. But when you put your treadmill at that kind of incline, you can take bigger steps, not worry about the whole thing of speed, and I started out taking my speed down to 2.5mph and have now moved it up to 3.0mph. 2.5mph seems slow at any time. But with that incline, it can definitely feel different, and everybody I’ve seen has experienced big results with just 15-30 minutes of this. Some lost a lot of weight, but most combined that with quite a few inches and a greater level of general toning.