It has long been known that dai­ly ex­er­cise that rais­es the heart rate can great­ly im­prove your health and help you to main­tain a healthy body weight. Well know­ing that is easy, the hard part is find­ing the time in your busy sched­ule to ex­er­cise. One easy so­lu­tion is to start tak­ing a dai­ly walk, this is cheap­er then sign­ing up for class­es or join­ing the lo­cal gym and can be done in as lit­tle as 30 min­utes a day. By walk­ing for just 30 min­utes a day you not on­ly help your weight but al­so re­duce stress, tone mus­cles, re­duce your risk of de­vel­op­ing type 2 di­a­betes and age re­lat­ed mac­u­lar de­gen­er­a­tion, low­er blood pres­sure, and strength­en your bones. So start get­ting up a lit­tle ear­li­er in the morn­ing and go­ing for a walk around the block, dri­ve to a lo­cal park on the week­ends, or sim­ply walk loops around the mall dur­ing your lunch break. You will have to con­tin­ue to in­crease the in­ten­si­ty of the walk to keep your heart rate go­ing at an in­creased pace, so what may start as a leisure­ly walk around the clock will turn in­to an all out pow­er walk! Walk­ing is not a to­tal body work out and will not leave you with per­fect­ly toned abs, arms, and legs. There are things you can do dur­ing the walk to make for a to­tal body work­out, if you are walk­ing in the park stop at a bench and do dips and push ups. If you are walk­ing around your block stop and do toe touch­es on the curb and do some old fash­ioned push ups right on the side­walk. If you are walk­ing in the mall sim­ply tight­en your ab and glute mus­cles dur­ing the walk. (shes­got­groove.com)