If you’re looking for a simple and accessible way to improve your overall well-being, the answer may be as straightforward as taking a walk. In fact, there are many symptoms you might have experienced that can be alleviated with commitment to a regular walking practice. In this article, you’ll learn how nine common symptoms can be made better with walking.
I woke up my sophomore year of college to discover two seemingly unrelated issues. First, I had gained not just the freshman fifteen, but more like the freshman thirty, and I’m barely 5’3”. I blame dorm food and a steady stream of 11:00 p.m. pizza runs. Second, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life or even who I really was. I felt like I was constantly in reaction mode, and between classes, homework, and living with dozens of people on the 8th floor of Denton 8 (my dorm), well, the picture wasn’t pretty.
A long staple of military training, in its most basic form, rucking is simply walking with a loaded pack. The term comes from “rucksack,” the durable pack the military uses to carry equipment. Recent research has confirmed what our military has long known: rucking is a powerful form of fitness, whatever your mission.
Highly versatile, the weight you carry can vary based on your fitness level and training goals, and the right pack makes it easy to increase the weight as you get stronger. And get stronger you will, along with a host of other benefits that make rucking something we should all add to our walking practice.
If rising temperatures have you sweating about how to keep up with your walking practice, find relief with nine tips to keep you cool and crush your miles.
It is said that variety is the spice of life, a lesson you should consider applying to your walking style. Varying your routine helps to keep you from getting bored and presents the opportunity to challenge your body in new ways that can lead to stronger muscles and a healthier you. Here are nine ways you can switch things up and add a little spice to your walking workout.
You’ve probably heard it said that roots run deep, so get a group of people together scattered all over the country with heritage from vast different parts of the world and you’re bound to discover some odd, and often humorous, verbiage. With this month’s theme of “Walk in the Rain,” we couldn’t help but learn all the different ways a person could talk about rain. Here are nine of our favorites:
Last week, a guy whose official title is “Chief Happiness Officer” tweeted:
“I had to relearn how to walk in 2009 and it was a very slow process. But the things and the details that I noticed from walking so slowly around the same block each day gave me an entirely new view of my neighborhood. I had been racing by those people and places every day prior.”
Before, and you all know what I mean by “before,” most of my days went like this: Wake up at 5:00.
Happiness Lab Podcast, the things that we think will make us happy often don’t. But there’s one thing we know: Walking makes you happier. Here are nine reasons why.
Normally, little moments throughout our days deliver little jolts of the four so-called “happiness hormones.” We arrive at our office and warmly greet a co-worker: thank you, oxytocin. We drop our kids at school and hear from their teachers how well they are doing: hello, serotonin. We complete a work task and check it off our list: ahh, dopamine. We go to the gym and work out with our usual 5:30 p.m. crew: bring on the endorphins.
When the rain is falling, your instinct might be to stay indoors. But in reality, there are added benefits to walking in the rain. Here are 9 of our favorites:
Many months ago, we selected “Walk in the Rain” as the theme for April. We called it “a fact and a metaphor.” Little did we know how incredibly appropriate it would be by the time April rolled around.
Cars aren’t the only way we move through the places where we live, work, and play. Today, more and more cities and neighborhood associations are focusing on walkability, or more generally, how people move around an area without the use of a personal vehicle.
You’re home. Your kids are home. You’ve been power watching the news and maybe feeling a little helpless or confused. But as we are socially distancing ourselves it is still important to take care of ourselves, maybe now more than ever. 99 Walks is encouraging you to get up, lace up and go for a walk. And here are 9 really good reasons why.
The “growth mindset” has swept the world of everything from parenting and education to professional development and preschool over the past several years.
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and it is a celebration, a movement and a call to action. Here are nine things you should know about it:
What the heck is it? “International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women - while also marking a call to action for accelerating gender equality.”
Well, you’ve done it now. You've committed to becoming a Goal Crusher. To be a person who doesn’t just talk about what she wants, but who goes and gets it. You’re not just an “idea person," you are an idea activator. There is something in your life you really, truly want.
February provides the perfect opportunity to focus attention on some of the amazing history of the African American story and the chance to focus on some amazing women. Here are nine who inspire us.
The theme of the month is love fiercely. And by that, we mean strive to love with your whole heart. With honesty and without reservation.
For many of us -- maybe for all of us -- that kind of loves feels incredibly risky because somewhere along the line, we have all learned that opening your heart opens you to heartbreak. And seriously, who wants that?
It seems as though everywhere I turn, someone new is sick. Last week, my son’s teacher sent home an urgent request for donations of tissues and Lysol wipes. Yesterday, two of my meetings got canceled -- one because the person I was supposed to meet with was sick and one because, yup, her kid was sick. And high school and college sports games across the country and being postponed because they don’t have enough healthy players.
Walking has countless benefits for your love life, and yes, that even includes better sex. Here are 9 reasons you should take a walk with your partner today.
What happens when you miss a day of walking? What happens when one day becomes two days and two days becomes five days?
Many of us suffer from an all-or-nothing mentality. We think in absolutes: good or bad. Active or couch potato. Fat or thin. Fit or not. Dieting or binging.
My flight was delayed and I was killing time in the airport bookstore when I spotted a book that had been recommended by a friend. I pulled it off the shelf. It looked like a short read, something I could get through on my flight to California if I ever managed to get on the plane. Excited, I bought the book and began to read it while I continued to wait for the fog to lift and the plane to board. What I discovered was a simple practice that has changed my life.
Enough people abandon their New Year’s Resolutions by January 17 that the day has officially been dubbed “Ditch Day.”
But not around here.
Around here, we don’t give up on the promises we make to ourselves. We don’t quit on our dreams. We don’t have an all or nothing mentality which means when we slip -- when we skip a walk, eat ice cream or snap at our kids -- we don’t throw in the towel. We keep going.
We all strive to be better. It is one of the best things about human nature. And the start of the year is a moment in time when many of us take stock and make commitments to ourselves. For those of you awesome members of the 99 Walks Pack, that commitment involves more movement, more walking … a commitment to walking our way to better this year.
But life happens. Kids get sick. We stare down five straight days of rain. And then there’s the flu, work deadlines and the days when we just “don’t feel like it.” It gets hard.
Here are my top nine tips for sustaining your walking practice in 2020.
It is time to start talking Goal Crushing 2020! A new decade presents the perfect time to begin working toward new dreams. And while I know it seems hard and big and scary, I encourage you to take some time over the next few days to really think about where you want to be at the close of this decade. What in your life would you like to change, shift or evolve? What are your dreams and your goals for the next decade?
This Goal Crushing plan has 9 steps. You don't have to do them all at once. In fact, you probably shouldn't because you may have to give your mind time to percolate. But you do need to work through them, preferably in order. Ready?
Here. We. Go.
