Walking for Fitness

Healthy Habits & Healthy Hearts

Ris Lacoste | Posted 04.25.2012

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Ris Lacoste

My mother passed away from heart disease in 2010 and it was a stark lesson that unless I started to get my heart and body in shape I may be headed down the same path. I dubbed my new personal initiative RIS Walk 60 -- daily 60-minute walks to the heartbeat of DC.

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The Spiritual And Emotional Benefits Of Walking

Beverley Golden | Posted 07.19.2011

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Beverley Golden

I've discovered that walking, in a purposeful and conscious way, is the walking that has the most magical of all benefits, because it connects you to a higher spiritual place, a source of unlimited possibilities.

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Walk for Exercise: A Better Way to Burn Calories

Andrea Metcalf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrea Metcalf

"Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes" should be your mantra while walking--and throw in belly since it's there!

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