15-30 minute walk at a comfortable pace.
Warm up with 5 minutes.
Stretching 5 minutes.
Now resume your walk at a comfortable pace.
End with 5 minutes of gentle stretching.
Stretches for Walkers
Splitting Up Your Walking Time
You may not have time to get in 30 minutes or more of walking at a time. Splitting it up into two 15-20 minute segments will still burn calories and reinforce your commitment to walking. For health benefits and to burn fat it is best to lengthen your walking sessions to 30 minutes to an hour. But that can come later - right now we want to get you walking and keep you walking.
Share Your Goals
You've chosen a goal. It is realistic. You have a way to measure it and milestones along the way. You have written it down. Now find someone to tell about it - a spouse, friend, partner, or even our community of walkers here. By sharing your goal you have deepened your commitment to it.
Goal Form
Convenience Food
Fitting exercise and healthy eating and lifestyle reflection into each day is a challenge. But convenience foods are a minefield, often packed with fat and/or sugar and low on vitamins and nutrition. It is best to take the time to pack your own healthy meal and snacks such as packages of baby carrots, nonfat yogurt, apples, oranges, bananas. Many fast food restaurants now have salads - a good choice if you go easy on the dressing.
Recipe of the day:
Anda Bhurji
An Indian-spiced egg and potato breakfast dish that my friends demand for our weekends on the coast.
Word of the day
Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers
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