The idea is simple: you need to walk briskly for shopping centers, climb stairs and escalators, and at the same time a little to stare at the windows. In the US and Canada this kind fitnesca so fond of people that shoe manufacturers are now offering special shoes -mall-walker shoes with "special soles roughness not to slip on the smooth floor of shopping centers."
Fans of the fitnesca emphasize: "Shopping-walking" The good news is that, in shopping centers does not interfere with pedestrian or traffic or weather or potential burglars. During the thirty-minute session brisk walking, including assault ladders and short run, you can burn about two hundred calories.
Physiologists from the Canadian University of Calgary examined the effects of an eight-week program of shopping walk for health and wellness.
It turned out that after two months of training participants already done the more distant path and lost weight compared with that in the beginning. Perhaps more importantly, that they were engaged in this kind of fitness willingly, sixty-three percent of the participants were engaged in "shopping-walking" three, if not more, days of the week.
The average age of participants in the experiment in Calgary was sixty-six years. This led the researchers to conclude that this type of fitness is perfect "older people who need a safe place to walk flat to improve functional mobility of joints, to support myself in shape and increase the feeling of self-reliance."
For greater efficiency, "shopping walk" even developed a special high-tech truck that turns an ordinary shopping trip in burdensome training on simulators.
It is believed that for a typical forty-minute visit to the supermarket shopper burns about one hundred and fifty calories (unless, of course, goes pretty fast and he carries bags to the car). And pushing a cart "Slim" during the same forty minutes, the average person will burn two hundred eighty calories, which is equivalent to twenty-minute swim.