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The Times of India
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TOI Lifestyle Desk | etimes.in

6 ways water walking can promote weight loss and wellness

Walking in water is a wonderful way to speed up weight loss and turn the simple act of walking into a full body workout. An aquatic workout, water walking helps burn more calories than ground walking as water is denser than air and thus walking inside water requires more effort. Besides losing weight and working out joints and muscles, water walking can also be deeply relaxing and helps beat stress and anxiety.

For doing this aquatic workout, one needs to stand in waist or chest-deep water and keep the shoulders straight, and slowly move forward unless you put your foot ahead in the water on the bottom of the surface.

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