Walking for Fitness

Your health is the most important thing in your life. Think about it . . . without your health you can’t enjoy any money you make, any relationships you form, any foods you eat, any job you do, any business you start. In fact, without good health, it’s difficult to fully enjoy just about anything.

Maybe your doctor has been encouraging you to get some exercise or maybe you just feel it’s time to get moving. In either case, walking is probably the best exercise you can start with. And, in many cases, it can be the only exercise you’ll have to do for the rest of your life.

Walking is so incredibly flexible and varied because you have the choice of a range of speeds from strolling to race walking, each of which has a different set of benefits and each of which can be done without any expensive equipment. With just a few minutes every day you can improve your overall health, improve your cardiovascular health and lose those extra pounds. Continue reading

If you have been encouraged by your doctor to start moving and exercise, or if you just know that your body needs more movement than you are giving it, you may be questioning exactly what it is that you can do.

What exercise can you fit into your daily schedule, that won’t be difficult to learn, that doesn’t require expensive equipment, that doesn’t hurt your joints, that you can do even outside of the gym and that you can increase intensity overtime as you get better?

Walking is your answer!

Walking is the best option to answer all of those questions and even more. More countries have more and more sedentary workers as technology gradually becomes more affordable and is integrated into more businesses. This means that we get less exercise than we used and probably are eating more food than we are burning off each day. Continue reading