While this may look like a silly activity to some but reverse walking gives you a nice break from your usual workout routine. It offers great physical and mental benefits and it also allows you to challenge your mind to do something different but not too difficult. You can easily start including reverse walking in your fitness journey by doing it a few times a week for anywhere between 10-20 mins to reap its benefit.
- It helps improve the sense of awareness in the body as you exercise different muscles.
- It has a positive impact on mind and body coordination.
- As you grow comfortable, it changes your mood since you accomplish a new task.
- It helps you step out of your comfort zone and it is not too difficult, to begin with.
- Reverse walking is known to improve the sleep cycle in people.
- It also helps improve vision as you change directions
- It helps exercise the leg muscles which may sometimes get ignored.
- It helps improve balance
- Helps burn a moderate amount of calories
- A great option for people who want to maintain their weight
- Boosts the energy level in the body after it is done for a while.
- Helps improve the body’s metabolism.
Apart from the listed benefits, it also great for improving aerobic capacity and people who have just started to exercise must consider this. You can start doing it on your lawn, terrace, or even drawing-room before stepping out in public parks.