Prolonged Walking As Health Promoter

[Elize]

I agree about walking in nature.

 

[Elize]

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I have the tool but am sure you can use any rounded blunt object

 

[David90]

Walking is an underappreciated form of exercise but some claim that extensive walking (several hours/day) can dramatically improve health and fitness. What has been your experience? I'm particularly intrigued by the potential for prolonged walking to improve digestion, as I feel that my digestion is definitely worse in periods when I'm unusually sedentary. Perhaps 10 miles a day like Tesla is enough?

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I find Walking Quite Helpful in terms of Weight Loss and Health in General. Yesterday i have done 20000 Steps per Day. I also have done Manual Labour of Course
(Workplace), so that also adds up to the Huge Number.

I Personally find it easier to be and stay Lean if i incorporate lots of Walking Daily.

 

[Old Irenaeus]

Does anyone have a recommendation for the best shoes for walking, other than barefoot?

 

[laleto12]

Does anyone have a recommendation for the best shoes for walking, other than barefoot?

vivobarefoot

 

[Old Irenaeus]

I found these and was wondering how they'd do for long walks: Adult Hawthorne Chukka - Leather Sole

 

[Lizb]

When walking was a spectator sport....

The Last Great Walk

In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audien...

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[Greg says]

I’m a dog Walker and log up 22km [14 miles] + a day. I’ve done this pretty much every day for 6 years. I also lift weights. I eat a Matt Stone style re-feeding diet with RP principles thrown in. This works for me and I don’t get run down or sick and I feel great [for 50]. Walking and moving are essential, as long as you’re resting, recovering and sleeping adequately.

 

[Runenight201]

As I descended into madness over the past year or so I wasn’t very self-aware as to what was going on. Each day simply felt worse than the previous. But now I’ve realized that I was simply wasting away in stagnate toxicity. Ive begun picking up walking as an activity to do whenever I have an overactive mind, feel sluggish, or otherwise have no idea what to do.

I don’t know how to put it besides it’s simply miraculous. We are not designed to be sedentary creatures. We can adapt to sitting, but only at our own degeneration. Within 5 minutes, I can physically see the blood flow into my hands, my energy picks up, and any anxiety I have begins to dissipate.

To me, walking is an invaluable tool in the toolkit, one that every human being alive in our modern world needs to go out of their way to incorporate daily. The modern lifestyle does not facilitate proper health, and it is imperative to combat the office life with walking outside of it.

I only wish I could spend my life just walking around, eating, being an animal, just chilling out like Diogenes, but unfortunately I have to work to make money to survive. Finding a balance then between working just enough to survive while spending the rest of my waking hours being a metabolic animal then is the way. Perhaps being politically active and working for a resource based economy that Jacque Fresco envisioned can also be rewarding, whereas in my lifetime I may not ever experience it, but I can go to my deathbed knowing that future generations will not have to submit to such degenerative lifestyle constraints.

 

[Dutchie]

I used to walk a lot to and from places, usually while listening to some music. That always was very relaxing to me.
At the time I'd also been looking for work which involved lots of walking.

It makes me very sad that for the past couple of years I can hardly walk without worry if my legs are going to hold up and my digestive system wont act up.
At times it frustrates and angers me that I'm being compromised/robbed of one of the few joys/activities I had left ( and which didn't require any money).

 

[Runenight201]

I used to walk a lot to and from places, usually while listening to some music. That always was very relaxing to me.
At the time I'd also been looking for work which involved lots of walking.

It makes me very sad that for the past couple of years I can hardly walk without worry if my legs are going to hold up and my digestive system wont act up.
At times it frustrates and angers me that I'm being compromised/robbed of one of the few joys/activities I had left ( and which didn't require any money).

That certainly can be frustrating. You say legs won't hold up/digestion will act up, Are the muscles in your legs getting too weak to walk?

 

[Dutchie]

That certainly can be frustrating. You say legs won't hold up/digestion will act up, Are the muscles in your legs getting too weak to walk?

I don't know if they're becoming to weak, bc I thankfully can stand and move around my appartement without problems .
It's hard to describe what I feel.....it used to be that my calves started to really feel stiff (like I couldn't bend them properly anymore)and becoming weak the more it progressed. It felt like lactic acidosis, when paying attention to that the feeling in the calves went away but now it hurts when walking around my kneecaps . When walking and putting my feet down it often feels like my knees are tight and my lower leg is going to swing backwards instead of a forward motion....if that makes sense.
Also when this happens my vision becomes vague, I don't know if it might be a stress reaction from the pain and uncoordinated walking...or whatever's going on inside at that moment.
Sunlight/high UV index worsens this very quickly. (haven't been able to be much out in the sunshine the past couple of years)