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Incline Walking

Looking for a workout that will let you burn the maximum amount of calories in a minimum amount of time?  Treadmill walking or walking up an incline might be the solution.  The benefits are impressive!

• Increase Your Calorie Burn Rate. It's simple, walk for 30 minutes at 4 miles per hour and you'll burn 145 calories... raise the incline for the same distance and time and you'll burn 345 calories!
• Improve Cardiovascular Health.  Walking on an incline increases the workload on your system, and increases your the heart rate!
• Burn Fat. When you walk on an incline, your body uses a greater percentage of fat.  Studies have shown that walking 3 miles per hour on an inclined raised  between 16 and 18 percent will burn 70 percent more fat than running on a flat surface.
• Treadmill walking on an incline works the muscles of the calves, hamstrings and glutes.  For optimal benefits increase the incline fifteen percent or  more!

Incline walking is stunningly effective!  A one hundred and sixty pound man walking a treadmill at just two and a half miles per hour burns around four calories a minute.  That burn amount surges up to seven calories a minute when walking up a ten percent grade and ten calories a minute when walking up a twenty percent grade! Help yourself succeed. Start off slowly and work your way up!  If you use your treadmill effectively and gradually increase the incline, it could give you just the kind of lift you've been dreaming about to help shed those unwanted pounds!