Learn an easy trick to boost walking and lose weight faster –

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There is a way to further leverage the results of your walk in the park (or on the treadmill) and make your body burn extra energy. And the best part: it’s easier than you might think!

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To raise the number of calories toasted during strides, just set small goals during exercise. For example: pace for a set amount of time – and it doesn’t have to be very long. Accelerating the movement for just a few minutes and repeating the tactic more than once throughout the workout already pays off.

If walking outdoors is more your thing, use the scenery to your advantage to make the experience more fun: commit to walking until you reach the park exit or walking as fast as you can until you cross a specific street sign.

In addition to the feeling of mission accomplished, you’ll notice that time seems to pass much faster when you use the tactic. “Not to mention the fact that these mini-goals make the activity more interesting, making you perform the exercise longer and more intensely, which ends up raising the caloric expenditure”, explains Lis Oliveira, physical educator at Formula Academia Brooklin, in São Paulo.

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Other challenges to include in training: taking an extra lap around the square each week, choosing a path with ups and downs, setting increasingly distant points of arrival, alternating speed on the beltetc… Proof that walking doesn’t have to be monotonous!