Tag: walking
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Should I get 10,000 steps per day?
Science-based, health promotion or marketing ploy? If you have some sort of exercise watch or gadget, most likely you’ve heard of the goal to get 10 000 steps each day. Even if you don’t, you probably know someone who talks about their daily step goal. They’re walking every chance they get, while watching TV (like…
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This Summer Try Active Commuting
Many cities around the world are promoting active commuting and transportation. For the cities it reduces costs for road and infrastructure maintenance, and meet their climate change goals. But It also has many health and other benefits to the person actively commuting. Active commuting is transportation generated by the human body. Bicycling and walking are…
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Keep up Your Exercise this Winter
Winter is upon us and brings it’s own unique opportunities for being active and getting exercise. Yes, many of us are waking up each morning to darkness. And it can be hard to get out of bed knowing the sun won’t rise for another hour or two. But being active year-round is important to your…
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Turn Your Exercise Program into a Lifelong Habit with Fitness Coach Karina Inkster
Regular exercise can reduce your chances of getting disease and also make you feel better. Yet nearly three-quarters of us are not active enough. For most of us, it’s not the starting of the exercise program that’s the problem, it’s keeping it going for the weeks, months and years, and building it into a lifelong…