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Category: Injury Prevention
Prevent 4 major causes of burnout and overtraining for happier walking
Feeling burnout from your walking routine? It’s natural! Whether you’re walking too much, feeling sore, or need a change – you can make your walks fun and rewarding with these simple tips!
Injury Prevention 101 for walkers – 7 tips to stay injury free and walk more!
The key to staying active and getting more steps is staying injury free! Prevent injuries before they happen and stop existing injuries from getting worse with these walking injury prevention tips!
Hand and ankle weights – why you shouldn’t weigh down your walks.
Walking with hand or ankle weights burns slightly more calories per hour, but it actually puts stress on your joints which can lead to soreness, joint damage, and injuries! Instead, build strength and flexibility safely.
Why you should walk for cardiovascular health and keep your heart healthy!
Walking is the most recommended form of cardio for its heart health benefits – both for people dealing with cardiovascular disease and those looking to prevent it. These safe walking tips will help keep your heart strong with less risk.
7 Sources of Foot Pain from Walking (and how to feel better!)
Your foot pain from walking could be normal soreness or a more serious injury. Learning the difference means treating your foot pain so you can walk longer distances and have more comfortable walks.
Here’s how walking can help to lower your blood pressure!
Walking can actually help to lower your blood pressure, in addition to all of walking’s other benefits to your health. Walking improves your fitness, strengthens your heart, and burns calories.
How walking can help back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia and more!
Walking and staying active can actually benefit people dealing with back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and other chronic conditions. Find out why walking promotes healing, and how to walk with less pain.
6 Important Stretching Exercises for Walkers
Stretching exercises can be an important part of your daily walking routine! If you experience soreness after walking, or just want to get more flexible, then leg stretches, calf stretches and back stretches can help you recover, feel great and get back to walking!
Simple Solutions to 4 Causes of Pain When Walking
If it hurts when you walk, figuring out the problem and treating your pain is essential to maintaining your steps. Here’s how to treat common causes of back, shin, foot and calf pain that might be interfering with your steps.