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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 4 7:56am | Replies (4374)Comment receiving replies
Hi @angelcats, welcome to the virtual walking group. I hope you saw @gingerw's explanation of how it works.
In brief, get walking at your pace and enjoyment, and share your success by posting about your walk here. You can share things like where you walked, what you saw or how far you went. If you need some motivation by following a schedule, click this link.
– Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/get-walking-with-this-12-week-walking-schedule/
To get to know your fellow walkers, read through the past comments. When you return from your walk, post a comment and tell us how you did. I usually walk first thing in the morning. Rain prevented me this morning, but it has stopped now so I better get out there.
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Hello Colleen. I have thought about starting a virtual exercise group, as you suggested a few days ago. But I'm not sure I could be there daily to recruit people and offer suggestions that fit the needs of the entire group. Right now (today) I don't know if I am able to commit 100%. But I haven't given up on the idea because I like group-sync. I like the energy you find in groups where members encourage each other to try and also to offer help. We are all teachers. We are all students.
Re: walking. There are so many levels to it.
#1. You can't walk unless you stand. Right? (Now let's take walking machines out of the equation). Let's walk with safety in mind. You can stand and hang onto a counter or door and walk in place. Or you can stand and bend and turn while walking about your space doing housework. You don't have to go outside for a walk or get on a treadmill to call it walking. You can begin walking exercises in the safety and comfort of your own dwellings. And that's what I did yesterday.
#2. Housework is exercise.
Yesterday I finally! cleaned out my refrigerator and I mopped the kitchen floor. I was on my feet several hours cleaning and organising the pantry and cupboards. I threw out bottles of expired what-evers in the frig'. I was on a roll. And I consider that a form of walking.
Now for me to take part in that activity, was like a miracle because I generally hurt on and off throughout the day and get little done. And for me to achieve the results from the walking and standing exercises I did yesterday, and not ache today, is worth publishing in the local newspaper. No kidding. I-feel-proud!
So today, my food-for-thought is: Stand and Do It! Allow your positive self-talk to guide you.
Hugs for happiness. CB