All Entries in the "walking" Category
Running the Trails with my “Cheap” MP3 Player
My “cheap” or better budget friendly MP3 player let’s me skip through tunes easily without looking while running or doing any other exercises.
It doesn’t miss a beat as with the old portable CD player did. A feature vitally important to me because running to music helps me unwind and deal with every day stress.
While running and breathing grows ever more strenuously, music lifts my spirit. It helps me keep the strength needed to move on to reach my goal. Music indeed is great self-help motivation to push on much more easily.
Lose 20 Pounds In 30 Days: As In Walking Naturally
Question: Can you stick to a weight loss diet plan more than two days? If the answer is no you may find the idea of walking as described in Women World’s magazine the tipping point to an all around healthier and ultimately thinner you.
Losing 20 pounds of body fat or more can be done faster than you ever thought possible. Walking briskly any chance you get metabolizes fat or sugars to glycogen and feeds it to muscle tissue rather than storing it away in fat cells as belly fat.
Time to Get the Hiking Boots Out
Happy Easter to you all… and may something motivate and inspire you today. After all spring is the time when wonderful new ideas flood your head when you least expect it - or simply while salvaging the old hiking boots out of a closet. [tag-tec]Hiking boots[/tag-tec] and skipping along with crickets, what could be finer? For now, the snow still piles up to my knees to sink me away. But when the sun hits Marquette and starts melting down the white stuff, Buttercup and I will brave the trail once again behind our house. To give you a little idea on what we are facing read on.
Glancing over my shoulder, I see little Buttercup struggling out of the deep boot prints I leave behind. Watching my every step and against her better judgment she follows me, slowly and laboriously. However, much too soon she stops dead in MY tracks, turning the coin instantly - smiling (yes, a yorkie hound can smile) as I am laboring back retracing my steps one at a time.
Try matching up a right foot ditch with your left… this is not as easy an exercise as you might think it to be - kind of like climbing a 4 story building in a matter of seconds - then lifting her ten pounds - that felt like a hundred - up and over my shoulder. I tell you, it’s cardio workout muscle fitness pure … it’s nuts – finally, after two stair-climbing hours (saves me the cost of a stepper exercise machine) I was glad when we got back to the house. Buttercup didn’t care too much… she enjoyed an easy ride. Yet, it felt great… yes… we’d actually beat nature on hiking boots. What relief after fleeing winter for so long.
I can’t wait to be out there again, on the trail behind our house, getting my heart pumped up, watching Buttercup amidst a sea of glittering white… watching it melt away… drop by drop. Spring is here to stay…
Now it won’t be long until we can go for the actual hike or run – and yeah - hurray - on solid ground. Buttercup chasing chipmunks, me chasing crickets and stepping up to the rhythm in my ears… never catching anything:)
Here is a wonderful poem I just had to re-post here.
A Runner’s Poem
Author: David Estrada, Murrieta, Calif.
The questions are simple, the day may be not,
or is perspective to see what you’ve got?
I see a cloud, a gust and some rain.
Her tail wags, “showers make puddles and puddles mean play!”
I’m tired, it’s dark, and the pizza’s been ordered.
She waited all day, her gaze says to me,
“a run would be better, a time to unwind.”
The street lights are beacons, and she is my drive.
Dash off the fatigue…We have found our stride!
We run to stay fit.
Our ipods have wings.
Inspired by movement and the reward that it brings.
So when I forget and want the day to be done,
I see Abbey’s perspective, her’s is to run.
Fitness: Healthy Body Fresh Air Fund
People spend a lot of time indoors every day. Kids spend six hours a day in school. Many adults spend at least eight hours inside of the buildings where they work. We spend all night in our homes: eating, playing, and sleeping. When do we take the time to enjoy the great outdoors? Fresh air is highly underrated. Getting out of doors on a regular basis can improve ones health and sense of well-being.
The air that we breathe on the inside is not as fresh as we need it to be. Dust is a fact of every day life. It collects on every surface. As we try to get rid of it, the dust swirls around us and makes its way into our respiratory system via nose and mouth. In your homes, if you cook and occasionally burn a meal or two, those fumes get inhaled also. We need a break from the indoor air. Companies try to sell us products to clean our home or office air which is fine, but there is just no substitute for fresh air.
Fresh air cleans our lungs. We may cough a bit at first as our lungs are getting rid of the impurities that we suck up on a weekly basis. But, after a while well begin to breathe deeper and deeper which brings more oxygen to our cells. The increased oxygen brings with it increased energy to do the things we need to do. More oxygen brings greater clarity to the brain, which needs twenty percent of our bodys oxygen to function. We can think better than we could before.
Exercises performed outdoors in fresh air offer increased aerobic benefits. More clean air in, helps improve our breathing technique. Better technique increases stamina. More oxygen to the muscles reduces that lactic acid build-up in the muscles which leads to cramping.
Fresh air cannot be found everywhere outdoors. In large cities where factories operate day and night, spewing smoke and particles into the air, fresh, clean air is at a premium. For these people, getting away from where they live will bring their bodies the benefits of fresh air.
A program called The Fresh Air Fund was started in 1877 by a non-profit organization. There goal was to introduce disadvantaged children living in the inner cities to the great outdoors. The program was started in New York to [tag-tec]benefit the citys youth[/tag-tec]. A man, by the name of Reverend Parsons asked his parishioners to volunteer to host inner city youth for a time away in the country. They agreed and The Fresh Air Fund was born. The program still flourishes today, offering a choice of five [tag-tec]camps in upstate New York [/tag-tec] for the citys children to enjoy time away and learn about country life.
Fresh air produces a healthy mind, clean lungs, and a calmer constitution when we actively use it. Getting [tag-ice]outdoors[/tag-ice] should not be a chore, but a privilege. Enjoying the earth and get your dose of fresh air.
