Category: Fitness Walking

  • Walking Health – Fitness Assessment

    Walking Health – Fitness Assessment

    If you’re  going to walk, then you need an evaluation that will take activity and walking  into  consideration too.  It provides an  assessment more specific to walking. It takes a look at your  health history and your fitness background and level. In each of the 10 areas, choose the number that best describes you,  then…

  • Evaluating Your Health and Walking Fitness

    Evaluating Your Health and Walking Fitness

    Before you  start a new  activity program, even  one  as  seemingly simple as walking,  it’s important to determine not  only  how  healthy and  fit you  are  in general but  also how fit you are in the  specific activity you want  to begin.  For example, if you are  a very  fit cyclist, you might  not  have…

  • Walking’s Fitness Benefits

    Walking’s Fitness Benefits

    I doubt I need to convince you  that walking  can  benefit your  health. Thanks to research in the  last  decade, most people understand the  benefits of walking. Researchers have  done substantial amounts of work on the  topic of walking  for fitness (not just  performance or biomechanics). And as  the  buzz  grew  louder, what  walkers have…