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In this series, Surprising Ways to Slash 500 Calories, we discuss a variety of ways you can easily eliminate 500 calories from your daily routine resulting in an easy weight loss of one pound per week. You may not even think these food or beverage items “count”, but they do. Our job is to help you in your weight loss goals and even if you were to burn one less calorie day; it would add up over time.
Next time you’re at the gym, hop on the treadmill and give the incline a shot. Walking on a flat surface serves it’s purpose of burning calories at a steady rate, but most would be surprised that adding the incline into the mix allows your body to burn up to %60 more calories during your workout. Walking uphill is simply harder that walking on a flat surface and requires your muscles to exert more effort. Makes sense, right?
- Be sure to maintain good, upright posture during this workout, so that you don’t strain your back.
- Warm up for about 10 minutes before adding the incline to get your muscles ready.
- Start by alternating walking on an incline and walking on a flat surface. You’ll work your way to full-blown incline workouts eventually!
Check out this video to see what else you can do with a treadmill – abs!
