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Burn 5X the Calories - Just by Walking

Burn more calories — with the Incline Trainer™.
The greater the incline, the greater the calories burned. It's a simple fact: walking at an incline requires more muscle activity because it requires a greater range of motion — which burns more calories.

How? First, walking at an incline engages the lower body — the body's largest muscle group. Second, walking at an incline forces you to climb the incline with each step — forcing you to exert yourself even more. The combination of these two things helps burn significantly more calories than walking on a flat surface.

Tone Your Muscles While You Walk.
With the Incline Trainer, you won't just burn calories — you'll build and sculpt muscle as never before. This graph illustrates the muscle activity of walking at a 25% incline compared to walking on a flat surface for 20 minutes at 2 mph. With the Incline Trainer, you're just steps away from a whole new you.

Burn More Calories Faster; Expand Your Incline Options

Hill Climbing: Start slowly on small hills or even just the end of your street, if it’s on an incline. Learn to pump your arms for power and fitness. Take smaller steps as you go up a hill. Lengthen your stride as you go downhill. Remember that you use more muscles running down a hill than up it. Wooded areas, golf courses, stairwells and stadiums are excellent options for hills.

Treadmills: Versatile and comfortable, treadmills allow you to set not only the speed but also the incline of your walking or running. Take a few moments to practice as it does require co-ordination hitting the cadence of your stride. Most treadmills can monitor your heart rate, but when you’re in the thick of the cardio workout, try not to lean or rely on the handles and pump your arms to get a good full body cardio.

Stair Steppers: Experiment with a comfort level as you increase the resistance on a stair stepper to simulate the incline of a hill. You get an accelerated calorie burn compared to walking, plus a great muscle-toning workout for the quads, glutes and calves.

Elliptical Trainers: Freedom from joint stress is here. Ellipticals are a great variation on the stair stepper where you take a smooth gliding motion and can pump your arms freely or use the models which simulate cross-country skiing. You can set both resistance and incline to meet your calorie-burning needs.

Cardio Tip

The following statistics are from the Journal of Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition and Human Performance (1991):

• Walk on a five percent incline to induce a 41 percent greater calorie burn.
• Walk on a 10 percent incline to burn 82 percent greater calories