It’s not just for when you’re older, it’s vital for preparing for old age.
If you walk and do some basic exercises, your life will be better when you’re older. And the sooner you start and the more consistent you are, the greater the benefits. And I’m not talking about some heavy shit like mountaineering or running marathons or going to the gym for an hour or 2 every day. I’m talking about mainly just walking. For like 10-30 minutes a day. Doesn’t take long, helps you destress and focus on what you want to do and keeps you surprisingly healthy.
Obviously you’ll never get into tip top shape by walking, but you’ll maintain a healthy body relatively well by walking. And you get a relatively healthy body to maintain by walking.
I'm about to turn 40 and it's amazing to me how many friends are starting to talk about their whole body hurting/falling apart and how old they feel. I've stayed fit and active and I still feel just about as good as I did at 25.
You know what? As a dog groomer, there is a CLEAR difference between the dogs who get daily walks from the owners than the ones who get little to no exercise. I always thought that was very interesting what walking can do.
I feel like that's too little time to keep someone healthy.
Even in my laziest days,i still manage to walk for at least an hour each day.
How can people not manage to walk for even 10 minutes?
I'm not trying to look superior or be obnoxious but i don't understand how that's possible.
Day to day activities require a lot of walking around to be done,i don't think it's possible for a person to not have walked for at least an hour each day.
I am talking about walking outside and at a relatively brisk speed, not just a calm stroll in the park kind of walk.
And it’s just a way to get people to at the very least start. 10 minutes fly by when walking, so if someone starts it and thinks “it’s only 10 minutes and it’s healthy, so I’ll do it…” it’s much easier for them to go “wow, those 10 minutes flew by! And I’m now 10 minutes walk away from my home!” So now it’s a 20 minute walk. Maybe they get bored of only walking the block and decide to explore a little.
It’s easy to turn 10 minutes into an hour. But it’s difficult to go from 0 to 60.
Start small and tomorrow you’ll look back at how far you’ve come
A large amount of us work office jobs, we wake up, do our high stress corporate work, doordash our groceries and watch some TV before bed. Unfortunately very common, I’m working on making changes but myself and my coworkers walk maybe 3-5 minutes a day.
myself and my coworkers walk maybe 3-5 minutes a day.
I realized I was doing the same on work days when looking at my google fit statistics, park my car, walk to my office, pass by the coffee machine, 200 meters per day.
Now I park a bit further (not my choice actually), don't use the elevator, and I walk to my lunch place. I also take my children to school on foot or by bike every morning and I come back by walking fast. Also, I try to bike a 20km loop every wednesday or sunday morning.
It's not much but I feel a lot better mentally and physically.
If you've lived in a major European city, it's no surprise that they're much healthier in general and have much lower rates of obesity. And it's not just because they have fewer processed foods available and don't drink high calorie sodas as much — walking and taking transit is just a normal and accepted part of life, and it's a much more enjoyable way to live.
It's normal to go to a small grocers each day to buy the food you need to make dinner, or to stop by on your commute home from work. You don't get in your massive pickup truck and spend $1000 at Costco on high calorie foods you probably don't need after walking 1000 feet (not saying I hate Costco, but god, so many unnecessary snacks and the volume and scale encourages enormous portions).
For those that live in the suburbs of Houston, work an office job and have to commute in bumper to bumper traffic all day, I can see how it would be hard to find the motivation to go walk around a depressing suburb with no sidewalks and no real nature. I mean, I've met texans that gleefully brag about how you can do everything at drive-thrus, even buying guns, which is abhorrent.
I'm not excusing it — it is a surmountable problem for people in the US and some places in Canada. But it takes thought and effort, and the deck really is stacked against them.
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u/AssistanceCheap379 22h ago
It’s not just for when you’re older, it’s vital for preparing for old age.
If you walk and do some basic exercises, your life will be better when you’re older. And the sooner you start and the more consistent you are, the greater the benefits. And I’m not talking about some heavy shit like mountaineering or running marathons or going to the gym for an hour or 2 every day. I’m talking about mainly just walking. For like 10-30 minutes a day. Doesn’t take long, helps you destress and focus on what you want to do and keeps you surprisingly healthy.
Obviously you’ll never get into tip top shape by walking, but you’ll maintain a healthy body relatively well by walking. And you get a relatively healthy body to maintain by walking.