Walk For Health

Bike Hashing Hounds

Sunday was a perfect sunny, winter day for outdoor activities.  There wasn’t any wind and the temperature was in the fifties.

As we were walking along a creek near Roswell Mill, hares surprised us

Hot on their trail was a pack of hounds that had to cross a treacherous pipe spanning a creek carrying their bikes.  Amazing feat since bike cleats and slippery pipes are not a good combo.

You might ask when do hounds

Discover Walking Blog – Health & Weight Loss Tips

2 Comments - What do you think?

Posted by

Category: Walk For Health

Need Energy Get Some Sleep

If you are exhausted, could be you really are exhausted

 

Your body and brain might be trying to communicate to you.  Are you listening?

 

Woke up the other morning with incredible energy

Wondered what was different since I am usually a night owl.  After going through the list of possible suspects of renewed energy, I realized that instead of my usual 4 hours of sleep . . . I had gotten 7 glorious

Discover Walking Blog – Health & Weight Loss Tips

Comment - What do you think?

Posted by

Category: Walk For Health

When A House Becomes A Home

When you walk, you connect with your neighbors and neighborhood in ways that will never experience speeding through in a car.

 

For years I have been walking the same route every morning. I started with my old Golden Retriever Zoey and now with “Wacky Jaycee”.  As we walk, we get to know our neighborhood.

Every morning we passed an empty house located at the end of the road near the water plant. The house

Discover Walking Blog – Health & Weight Loss Tips

Comment - What do you think?

Posted by

Category: Walk For Health

How To Do Walking Lunges Indoors

 

Now that we are getting into the winter months, walking lunges are a great way to exercise indoors.

Many people vow to exercise for 1 hour every day.  They start an exercise program and are faithful for a week or two but soon the demands of life get in the way.  

Instead of time consuming goals that are often not achieved, set easy goals for yourself like 5 minutes of exercise.   If you work

Discover Walking Blog – Health & Weight Loss Tips

1 Comment - What do you think?

Posted by

Category: Walk For Health

Watching TV Can Be An Opportunity to Walk

Instead of being a couch potato . . . watch your tv while you walk.

To use our treadmill while we watched our favorite tv programs required a little high tech ingenuity. Our basement houses our treadmill and a cable tv with no DVR box.

Once you have had the convenience of watching shows on your own schedule and fast forwarding through commercials, it is hard to return to the dark ages with a cable

Discover Walking Blog – Health & Weight Loss Tips

8 Comments - What do you think?

Posted by

Category: Walk For Health

Tags:

Silver Sneakers: State of the Art Gym Membership For Free

Our friend, John, exercises for free in a gym with cardio cinema room complete with surround sound, theatre quality video and the latest equipment. John is always sharing his latest reviews of movies since he works out to the length of whatever movie is playing.

John’s health insurance has a Silver Sneakers program which gives him free health club memberships at over 9,000 locations. If your health insurance has Silver Sneakers and you are a senior citizen, you

Discover Walking Blog – Health & Weight Loss Tips

2 Comments - What do you think?

Posted by

Category: Walk For Health

Tags:

Page 1 of 712345...Last »

Discover Walking provides health tips and information about walking lose weight.