A heart rate monitor can help you achieve the maximum benefit from your walking program. I use the Omron HR-100C Heart Rate Monitor. I have to admit that I like Omron products. I now own an Omron pedometer, blood pressure monitor and heart rate monitor. One benefit to Omron products is that their manuals are all available on-line so I don’t have to remember where I put them.

The Omron HR-100C Heart Rate Monitor

If you work in an office you need to use all of your willpower and walk away from the food. This time of the year it is difficult to maintain good eating and exercise habits.

With the double whammy of it being dark when you leave the house and dark when you get home and in most places colder, walking outdoors is difficult. That combined with the fact that food is everywhere especially in

Are you trying to burn more calories without spending more time at the gym? If your answer is yes, then get yourself to the nearest set of stairs!

Walking up and down the stairs is great exercise and burns calories. You can burn about 300 calories for 30 minutes of walking the stairs depending on the intensity of your workout. But, beware, 30 minutes is a lot of time to spend

Walking gifts are perfect for the walker in your family, office or circle of friends. We all struggle with what to buy someone that will be used and appreciated rather than stuffed into a closet.

I looked at the list of items people have purchased through Discover Walking over the last year. Three products have proven to be most popular and all three make perfect gifts.

The biggest seller has been the Omron HJ112 Premium Pedometer This is no

Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv was brought to my attention by a reader of Discover Walking. The book received such rave reviews by readers on other web-sites that I had to mention it here.

Richard Louv is the author of seven books that deal with family, nature and the community. Mr. Louv is a columnist with the San Diego Union-Tribune and has written for magazines and

Finding the right shoe and getting it in the right size is the best way to avoid foot pain. Foot pain is very common and is one of the primary reasons people give for not being able to walk long distances. The average person walks up to 115,000 miles in their lifetime which is about four times around the world. Each foot hits the ground around 1,500 times every mile, so you do the