Here are a few ways to incorporate walking into your day.
1. Use part of your lunch hour to walk around the block or even better a local park.
2. Park at the far end of the parking lot when you shop.
3. If the weather is bad, walk from one end of a mall to the other.
4. Use the stairs. My roomie works in a four-story hospital. He almost never takes the elevator, and he goes up those stairs like a gazelle -- if gazelles can climb stairs easily.
5. Get a pedometer and attempt to add 500 steps to your day.
6. Call a friend and set up a walking date.
7. Many schools have a walking track that is open for the public to use during the summer and evenings.
8. Many churches have family life centers with a walking track.
What walking tips do you have to share? Let’s walk our way to fitness and health.
4 comments:
Thanks Tech! I really do like these word of the day posts.
I prefer walking in the AM, just because it gets me going for the day and the cool air keeps me...cool. But it is all when the weather provides. Otherwise, I walk in the evening, with someone preferably but I can always get on my treadmill. Being outside seems to lend itself to more motivation to do it, however.
I have tried the tricks you listed too. Parking further away (Aha! Rachel says "That's why you have been parking further away!" >:| she is reading over my shoulder) And, walking the mall is never an issue when shopping could be involved. :)
You're welcome, Michelle! I'm glad you like them.
By the way, if you click on the little man in the photo, another browser window should open and he will walk!
Ha! Very cool...
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