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Just Walk
We make fitness harder than it has to be
Get up, get out and just walk.
No headphones, no phones, no step counting devices beeping on your wrist; just you strolling along a nice street, or wooded trail, being present in your own life.
Try to go for an hour…but it doesn’t matter much if don’t hit that every time.
Today, you don’t need to carry anything heavy, worry about intensity, worry about pace, or worry about the calorie count; just walk and enjoy the moment lost in your own thoughts.
Just walk, and use the time as quiet meditation, or think about your next big change in life.
Your walk is your time to reflect on everything good in life; or use the walk as a quiet time for prayer if you are that person. No music, no distractions; just you thinking about life for an hour, and moving gently along the road.
We sometimes make exercise too much of a big thing, when just an hour walk may do more to heal the body, and especially repair the soul, then believing all exercise has to almost kill us to save us.
Just cruising for an hour a day gets you into the top 23 percent of all Americans, if the goal is a simple 150 minutes per week of movement as recommended by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
