Re: hand weights
Actually, just walking with smal hand weights will not do a whole lot. They are meant for specific muscle exercises such as bicep curls, shoulder presses, etc. and just walking with them will not do much of anything. If you decide to use weights, then you need to use them with a dvd or book or something that goes through specific exercises to do with them.
I would say since you are doing 10 minutes of walking a day now, that you go for 15 minutes a day this week. Take it up to 20 minutes a day the week after that, and so on until you are doing 30 minutes a day.
After you are continually doing 30 minutes a day for a while, start replacing a walking session each week with a different activity-a yoga video, swimming, a dance class, a dvd using weights-something different to work your muscles differently.
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