Hardcore routines and vein-popping faces keep readers like you glued to every word. Triggering your curiosity by hinting at something big and impressive that is going to be shared. They are effective, but today you are going to learn about something else.   This underrated exercise, is so easy, you will find it hard to believe how powerful it actually is. And the best part? It does not require anything.   There is just one problem, you don't know how potent it is yet. And once you do, everything else only gets better. Today, you'll learn how one simple exercise can become your hidden superpower.      

Walk To Improve Your Mood

  I know what you are thinking: "Walking, really?" Stick with me here, because once we have walked through this, you will change your mind. Here is why: Physical activity improves your mood, but to stay physically active you need to enjoy it and not make it too physically demanding (1, 2). This makes walking an outstanding choice for calisthenics beginners on top of your regular routine, because it is a moderately intensive calisthenics exercise that you can do every single day. And that is more likely to motivate you as a calisthenics beginner or to put you into a mode of action, rather than discouraging you to give up. But that's not all...      

Walking Can Easily Be Tracked And Has Huge Benefits

  You see my point right? You need to knock over a small domino every single day and walking is an extremely small habit that is easy to incorporate. It will allow you to act yourself into motivation. And the best part is that recent evidence shows that an adequate increase of daily steps leads to important health outcomes, including all-cause mortality, cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes (3). How awesome is that for such a simple exercise? It is easy. It just takes a small step. And you have a wide variety of accessible applications that you can use to monitor and set your daily step count. So what's next?      

Add Walking To Your Daily Routine And Unlock Your Hidden Superpower

  Finishing the first part of this post and discovering that it was about walking probably came as a surprise. An anti-climax. A disappointment. A sour aftertaste. But here is the sweet part, you probably haven't heard anyone tell you yet that not all calisthenics training is about vein-popping. Don't get me wrong; walking is not magic. It will not turn you into a ripped machine.   But it can become the glue that gets you started and that keeps you going.  You still have to put in the time, do the calisthenics routines. But if you do and add walking as much as you can on top of that. The small steps matter.   So sprinkle some walking into your life: walk to work, walk to the grocery store, walk after dinner, walk the stairs instead of taking the elevator. That's how you turn walking into your hidden superpower. Sounds like a walk in the park, right?   *Fist bump*   Now I’d like to hear from you: Did you like this post? Or maybe you have a question. Either way, leave a quick comment below right now.