Walking And Walking For Excellent Exercise And Health!

Walking And Walking For Excellent Exercise And Health!
Walking can certainly add years to your life by improving your overall health. Lower blood pressure, fewer heart attacks, and lower risk of cancers are all possible when you have better overall health...and this can partially be obtained with daily walking...for exercise!

I have always done volunteer work with seniors, and I have often asked the folks who were 85 years old and older, about their advice for living a healthy and long life. Overwhelmingly they respond "I walk every day." They also said that they have walked daily...all of their lives. Because of their good health, they were also usually people who took very few medications and sometimes none at all.

Walking Daily Helps People Lose Weight
Walking burns calories. Most people only walk between 3,000 and 5,000 steps per day as part of their normal routine. If you were to wear a pedometer every day, and strive to walk 10,000 steps or more...every day...this could help you substantially.

To start walking for fitness, try to begin with a 20-minute walk every single day. If that’s too much, then start slower, but set a goal of eventually walking 30 minutes a day, every day. You can increase that to 40, 50, and eventually sixty minutes, over time.

Walking Daily Will Improves Your Sleep
Walking improves the quality of your sleep. People who walk routinely also have increased energy. They feel better, and are better able to handle the challenges of the day. Then at night, they are tired and are better able to sleep! Have you ever visited Walt Disney World for a few days? You did so much walking, that at night you were able to sleep like a baby in the hotel room...right?

Walking Daily Lowers Your Risk Of Heart Disease

Regular walkers have fewer heart attacks and strokes, lower blood pressure and higher levels of HDL (healthy cholesterol) than non-exercisers do. This is because of the fact that the daily physical activity, like walking, can lower blood pressure and LDL (bad cholesterol), decrease the risk of many cancers and improve immune system function.

So get busy and get out there and start walking...do it today, not tomorrow...start today! Remember that as Lao-tzu said, 2500 years ago, "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Take that first step today...on the road to a healthier life!

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