? It is reported that people no longer need to rely on dieting or weight training to lose weight. In fact, there are simpler ways to burn calories. Research shows that changing your walking speed will burn more calories than walking at a constant speed, but this study does not calculate the starting and ending moments of walking and the calories burned when changing the speed. In view of this, people may underestimate the calories they consume when walking or exercising.
In order to burn more calories when walking, people should walk in a way that makes them feel unnatural, for example, choose to follow a curve when walking, or consciously press their weight on their legs at the beginning and end of walking.
The researchers pointed out that most of the existing literature is about uniform walking, while the research on variable speed walking is still a blank point. It is of great significance to measure the metabolic value of variable speed walking, because it is impossible for people to exercise on the treadmill from morning till night, and they will not walk at a constant speed all the time.
The research shows that variable-speed walking can fundamentally increase the metabolic value of human body during walking, and the heat consumed at the beginning and end of walking in daily walking is even as high as 8% of the total heat consumed during walking.
There is no denying that walking at any speed will consume a certain amount of heat, but when you change the walking speed, you will burn more heat, just like stepping on the accelerator while driving. Because changing the walking speed will require the legs to play a greater role than usual, this process will burn more calories.
As part of this study, the researchers measured the total number of calories burned when people changed their walking speed. The researchers asked the tester to change the walking speed of the tester while exercising on the treadmill without changing the treadmill speed. They pointed out that the previous experiments made by researchers directly changed the speed of the treadmill, but it turned out that such experiments were difficult to draw correct conclusions. When the speed of the treadmill changes, it is the treadmill itself that is doing work, not the people themselves. Another function of this study is that it may inspire the future work of physiotherapists. When they measure the speed that patients need to move forward for a certain distance in the process of resuming walking, they can take variable-speed walking as an indication.
So in general, if you want to burn more calories when walking in your daily life, you can change your walking style from the following aspects: First, change your walking speed; Second, start and stop frequently when walking; Third, walk in strange ways (such as taking a curve or leaning your whole body weight on your legs when walking).