Hiking: Get Fit, Burn
Fat
Fitness and Fat-Burning
Combined
Hiking workouts are a good
way to improve fitness and burn stored fat. Hiking increases the number
of calories burned, and - if combined with a calorie-controlled diet plan
- will cause the body to burn fat burn it's stored fat - including stomach
fat. In addition, hiking helps to develop the thigh muscles, so you get
fit and reshape your body.
Hiking Improves Fat Percentage
About 45 minutes of hiking
burns about 360 calories. In one year, this daily exercise routine burns
a total of 131,400 calories per year - about 38 pounds of stored body
fat. This fat-burning improves the body's fat-percentage - the muscle-to-fat
ratio.
Hiking: Fat-Burning Health
Benefits
Because it helps to burn
body-fat, a regular fitness workout (like hiking) contributes to better
health in several ways. It helps reduce abdominal fat, associated with
serious illness; it assists weight control, thus maintaining normal cholesterol
levels and blood pressure. Finally, it releases endorphins the
happiness chemicals that improve mood. These health benefits are further
increased by a healthy eating-plan.
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