- It has an effect on every part of your body.
- Walking can help kick-start a weight loss program and keep it going through the plateaus and rough spots.
- It can help you to quit smoking.
- It will lower your blood pressure and balance your cholesterol.
- It will help those with arthritis, diabetes, obesity, heart and circulatory difficulties, depression, mental instability, anxiety attacks, and circulatory disorders.
- Walking keeps the cardiovascular and immune systems working at peak capacity.
- Walking helps keep your arteries young and healthy, warding off cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and memory loss.
- Physical activity keeps your immune system youthful and powerful. Many forms of arthritis are regarded as a breakdown of immune function.
- Walking will decrease your risk of cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, macular degeneration and even cancer.
Walking is the best thing you can do for your body, and for your health in general. You will find that once you are established in a daily walking habit, your life improves in many little ways as well as the big improvements mentioned.
Make 30 minutes of walking your priority every day. Just walking. Don’t worry about speed, pace, heart rate etc. Just start walking. Warm up by walking slowly for the first 5-7 minutes. You need to prepare the body for this powerful medicine, increasing the depth and rate of breathing, elevating the body temperature, warming up the synovial fluid in the joints, and increasing circulation throughout the whole body.
Now you’re ready for the walk. Just get going. Keep going for 15 minutes, turn around and walk back. After you finish, mark the calendar, and continue to do so every day for the next month. That’s all there is to it. Put on a jacket if you need it. Sun hat and sunglasses. Lace up your sturdy walking shoes and go for a walk. Give yourself and your family the greatest gift there is–a happier, healthier, more youthful, stronger and more energetic you.
This is your prescription and your priority, a daily 30-minute walk. If you need to, reward yourself for daily continuity- a star on your calendar, a prize for the first week of achievement, whatever it takes to keep you going for the 30 minute walk a day.
Keep it up for 21 days and it will be a habit!
Now you will feel so much better you won’t even think of giving it up. You are on the road to health and vigor, keep on trucking! I’d love to hear from you as you go along, to cheer on your successes and listen to your complaints–I’m behind you all the way!