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Should I Wear a Weight Vest for a Better Walking Workout?
Should walkers wear a weight vest to get a better walking workout?

How Much Exercise Do You Need? And What Kind?
How much exercise do you need - and what kind? The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association updated their recommendations in August, 2007.

Weekly Walking Workouts
Walking workouts to achieve your goals.  From your About.com Guide.

Fitness Toolbox
Fitness analysis, workouts, heart rate calculator, pace calculators, track your walks and more.  From your About.com Guide.

Walking Logs and Journals
Use our free monthly, weekly, and daily walking and logs to print out, plus an Excel spreadsheet to track your walking.

Fitness Calculators
Online calculators for body mass index, ideal weight, heart rate zone, and other fitness indicators. From your About.com Guide and FitWise.com.

What's the Best Time of Day to Exercise?
What's he best time of day to exercise? There are pros and cons for each time.

Over Age 65: How Much Exercise Do You Need? And What Kind?
If you're over age 65, how much exercise do you need? What kind? The American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association updated their recommendations in August 2007.

Beyond 10,000 Steps: Adding Moderate Intensity Increases Health Benefits
Moderate intensity exercise was seen in one research study to improve fitness better than walking 10,000 steps per day.

Amount of Exercise More Important than Intensity - Keep Walking!
Research shows that walking briskly for 12 miles a week has as much aerobic benefit as exercising at a high heart rate, and longer is better.

Did Walking Give Me Big Calves?
Will you get big calf muscles from walking? No, walking does not produce big leg muscles, it tones lean muscle. Bulk generally comes from overlying fat, which walking and diet can reduce.

Will you get Bulky Legs from Walking on an Incline or up Hills?
Will your get bulky legs from walking on an incline or up hills? No, Lorra Garrick explains how aerobic exercise such as walking, running, or hiking tones lean muscle and will not give you big leg muscles.

When Walking isn't Working
When your fitness walking isn't working to help you lose weight and gain fitness, you must step up the intensity.

From Walking to Running
How walkers can start adding jogging and running to their workouts.

How Far is That? 
How far and how long will it take to walk 5K, 10K, a half marathon, a marathon?  Kilometers to miles and back again, with fast, moderate and easy paces.

Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Exercise Workout
Use these top 10 ways to improve your exercise workout, from the American Council on Exercise

Fitness Walking Grows to 40 Million Walkers in USA in 2004
Fitness walking continues to be the most popular fitness activity in America as it grew to over 40 million walkers in 2004.

More Are Exercising, But Only Half of U.S. Exercise Regularly
The CDC reports that more people are exercising, but still less than half of those surveyed were exercising regularly as of 2005.

How to Breathe: Breathing and Walking
Taking a full, complete breath can help exercise performance, as well a energy and stress relief. How to breathe correctly. Breathing and walking for energy and stress relief.

My Exercise Ball Chair
My desk chair is an exercise ball. I made this conversion a few months ago when I realized I was not getting enough crosstraining other than my walking. Walking does nothing to strengthen the abs, and posture is also very important for walking. Walkers need to work on those areas.

Strength Training Basics
Strength training basics - how to include weight training and strength training in your overall exercise program.

Strength Training Principles: Repetitions and Resistance
Strength training principles and guidelines: Resistance and repetitions and progressive resistance