25-45 minute walk at a comfortable pace, concentrating on your walking form.
Warm up with 5 minutes at a very easy pace.
Stretching 5 minutes.
Now resume your walk at a comfortable pace.
• Good posture
• Use your arms.
• Strike with your heel and roll through each step, pushing off with your toe.
• Stride is longer in back than in front.
End with 5 minutes of gentle stretching.
Shoes
Now that you have been walking for two weeks, and have learned the right walking form, it's time to assess your shoes. Getting the right fit and getting shoes suited to your walking style is essential for walking comfort. You also need to replace your shoes every 500 miles - which is every 3-6 months depending on your mileage. Our Walking Shoe Guide tells how to find the right shoes.
Walking Shoe Guide
Emotional Eating
Many poor food choices are made due to emotion. We may eat comfort foods when sad, angry, bored, feeling unappreciated. A food diary can help pinpoint these emotional eating habits. Knowing your pattern can help you break it - or at least replace the poor choices with better ones.
Food Diary
Emotional Exercising
How does your mood or emotion affect your commitment to walking and exercising? Do you walk anyway? Do you not walk because you are angry, sad, stressed? What moods trigger you to decide to walk or not walk?
Recipe of the day:
Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins: These pumpkin oatmeal muffins pack a powerful nutritional punch and provide us with much-needed energy on those dark fall and winter mornings.
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