If you’re trying to be more active but don’t have the time to squeeze more steps into your day, you can make your walks more challenging instead. Using the principle of progressive overload—where you incrementally increase the difficulty of exercise to increase your fitness levels—you can get more from the time you can spend walking.
I spoke to Milica McDowell, a doctor of physical therapy, exercise physiologist and VP of Operations for Gait Happens, to get her expert opinion on how to increase the challenge safely when walking.
