Guest Post – The Top 30 Tips and Benefits Of Walking For Your Life
The benefits of walking are two-fold! Have you ever really thought about them?
Brisk activity is excellent for the heart, brain, muscles, blood flow, digestive tract, and many, many other things. A brisk walk every day is just a nice healthy thing that you choose to do for yourself and your over-all health. Even just walking at a normal pace is highly beneficial.
Walking does a body good at any age and it’s never, ever too late to start doing it on a daily basis.
Warning Tip: Of course if it’s summer time and the temperature is in the triple digits (right now for us), or even 85 and above, one should use caution. This goes double for the elderly. You could walk in the very early morning hours or in late evening to avoid the heat and sun.
You could also invest in a good treadmill and do the walking indoors. 
Another Tip: Before you start on a walking regimen, always do light stretching exercises before and after. This decreases the risk of any injuries.
Below are the 30 benefits of walking.
(You are encouraged to add to this list by comments. However, please don’t post spam)
I’m looking for real, additional benefits of walking to be added to the list.
Weight Control
Improves Blood Pressure
Reduces Stress and Anxiety
Decreases Depression
Releases feel-good endorphins
Good for the heart
Good for muscles
Improves blood flow
Aids with a healthy digestive tract
Improves memory brain cells
Helps melt abdominal fat
Walking is good for your bones
Walking helps prevents type 2 diabetes
Walking reduces the risk of breast and colon cancer
Walking improves fitness
Burns calories
Improves sex life
Helps skin complexion and glow
Reduces stroke risk.
Improves sleep
Gives you more energy
Improves self esteem
Helps heal and good for your joints
Helps socialize with friends and family
Helps to diminish the cabin fever feeling
Helps you catch some rays
Helps Arthritis
Walking is anti aging
Improves your mood
Improves sense of balance and focus
Can you add to this list?
You can find more articles and tips by Tammy at Grandparenting Articles and Tips
July 20th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
I think you pretty much covered all the benefits of walking. I would like to add walking boosts immune function, helps increase flexibility and coordination, improve bladder control, build muscle tone, prevents constipation, reuces the risks of gallstones, relieves back pain, improves breathing and lung function, increase stamina, and have great looking legs!
July 20th, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Oops. Reduces the risks of gallstones.
July 21st, 2012 at 7:21 am
Thanks Sophia! I like the great looking legs benefit. lol
All those are great that you mentioned. Hope all is well.