Every New Year, most folks resolve to get in shape. But by January 2, a lot of people are already feeling discouraged. But what if there was a simple program to get in shape that took only one week to do? That’s right! One 40 hour work week. Five eight-hour days. No kidding. Not a joke. Not a scam. And it’s free! Would you do it? Of course!
Walk thirty minutes a day. Keep it up for a full 40 hours: a simple work week in half hour increments. Do it and you will see fabulous ROI. Even if you don’t change your eating habits at all, you will burn more calories and that increased calorie burn will burn off fat.
People in study conducted by Duke University lost 1% of their body mass when doing low intensity walking every day over eight months. Compare this to a 1% gain by a similar group that was inactive. (For a 150 pound person, 1% is one and a half pounds.) Want more results? In the same study, people who exercised at high intensity over 30 minutes a day (jogging), lost 3.5% over the same time period (5 pounds for a 150 pound person).
You may be thinking that you don’t have time for 30 minutes a day so here’s the challenge: look at how you’re spending your time right now. What are you doing today? Got five minutes between meetings? Walk around the block. Three minutes early? Park farther away than usual and walk. Going out to get the mail? Keep walking for an extra five minutes before you swing by the mail box.
I’m wiling to bet that you have 30 minutes strewn around your schedule right now that you can put together and turn into thirty minutes of no sweat, easy does it, no-extra-work-on-your-part walking. I’m so willing to bet that here’s my offer. Email me your story about how you fit in walking without actually changing your schedule. I’ll feature the best story on this blog and I’ll give the winner one month–that’s four weekly sessions of one hour each–of free coaching to help them achieve whatever other goals they’ve set for the new year.
Sound good? Then get creative, start walking, and email your story to me. I’ll post the winner no later than January 15, 2007.
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