Walking

Speaking from recent experience, I've been hiking and walking, but not doing much for my upper body and it shows. My legs are well toned, my arms are really flabby looking. I think a minimum of 2x per week for strength training. If you are eating at a deficit to lose weight, maintaining what muscle you have is very important.

Walking is great. It is good to do some sort of strength training atleast 2 days a week. Good Luck

Lift weights and walk. Great plan. Read a bit of Jim Wendler.

I walk about five miles every day, but am trying to throw in some running intervals to amp it up a bit. However, just increasing my walking from a mile a day to five miles has helped me lose about 20 pounds so far. Lost 9 since joining this site, and 11 before that. I also do upper body strength training twice a week, though, because walking doesn't do much for upper body.

I love walking for exercise and try find routes with a few steep hills to walk up and down to work different muscles. I've recently started doing strength training too and noticed my strength in walk has increased going up those hills.

We lost a lot of weight with diet and walking(down 50 pounds each), but were flabby. Lifting is great, goodbye flab. When DW started lifting she was a size 8, few months later and only a couple of pounds down she's a size 4!

Hi all, pls add me as friend. Could use some motivation re walking. Not big fan of excercising, hence current weight, but realised i can trick my brain into 'not hating' walking lost 20lbs but off the wagon last 3 months -back again. Also using -map my walk

Another huge yes to strength training in addition to the walking, maintain lean muscle mass and bone density, a win-win.

I've been trying to lose weight with just walking as my exercise of choice, this time. I use to do some running a few years ago. I lost some weight with it but hated it. When I stopped, I gained back over 35 lbs. My question is: if I were to add some strength training, exactly what exercises do you guys recommend?? I have no exercise buddies to keep me motivated and on track, so it has to be something that's easy to stick with and won't be discouraging if I'm not good at it right away. Any suggestions???

Personally I think for beginners circuit training is the best way to loose way and maintain/gain muscles. It basically means you do one exercise after another, targeting different groups of muscles in each exercise.

You need some back and leg exercises because they are the biggest muscles and will have the biggest impact on metabolism when exercised. Core muscles to develop core strength and stability. And then some chest and arm exercise to make sure you give your whole body a nice workout.

If you are a member of a gym, ask the resident personal timer to design a workout routine for you. If not, buy some kettlebells or dumbbells and grab a book from Amazon with a complete body workout for one of those specific weights and you're settled! Have fun and good luck!