Backward Walking Is the Best Workout You’re Not Doing
TimeIt’s a low-impact way to burn calories, strengthen your legs, test your coordination, and even improve pain.
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From the ancient power of labyrinth walking, to the totally serious benefits of adding a ‘fart walk’ to your day, switching up your stroll can have a bigger impact than you might expect. Keep reading for the many paths to a more inspired step.
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It’s a low-impact way to burn calories, strengthen your legs, test your coordination, and even improve pain.
When I was told I could reap huge health benefits by learning to walk better, I was skeptical. I was already pretty good at walking, I thought. It turned out I had a lot to learn.
Ecotherapy involves reconnecting with yourself and the natural world around you—while honoring the legacy of land and its caretakers.
Hot girl walks went viral for a reason — here are some of the benefits.
Do you love the idea of running—getting outdoors, burning calories, building cardio fitness—but you wish you could do it without, you know, running? Try walking with a weighted pack instead—an activity that’s become known as rucking.
Walking labyrinths has become an increasingly popular global method of reducing stress by integrating the mind and the body.
Shopping malls won over a wide range of admirers, from teens to seniors, by providing something they couldn’t find in their public parks or sidewalks: a safe pedestrian experience.
Windy walks and gassy gaits. How exercise may have benefits for your gut health.
These oft-overlooked records invite us to imagine what has been and what might be.
Leave your map at home – here’s why ‘aimless walking’ is the key to boosting the mental health benefits of your daily walk, no matter where you live.
If you’re out on a walk, you will see a different world to your dog, a bee, or an ant. Here are three reasons why that matters.
Dacher Keltner, who served as the scientific adviser behind Pixar’s Inside Out, said it can be as simple as taking what he calls an “awe walk.”
Do you have your best ideas while running to the bus stop, or walking the dog? You’re not alone. Researchers are finding remarkable links between movement and blue-sky thinking.
As American interest in walking trips grows, we take to the mountains of western Massachusetts.
The myriad benefits of walking are well-documented, for health and happiness. But if we force the kids to tag along, is it still a good walk?
Here’s what you need to know about walking simulators and the psychological benefits of how games can offer a much-needed escape.
“That something exists outside ourselves and our preoccupations, so near, so readily available, is our greatest blessing.”
You can absolutely burn fat and improve your overall health by walking.