Walking

All too often, we overlook the benefits of the simple things.

When you start talking workouts, you can get into strength training, interval training, yoga, endurance work, skill-based work…and that’s not even touching getting OFF land and into the water, where swimming provides another set of benefits.

One Man Experiment will touch on all of that - I love being active - but it’s important not to overlook the benefits of walking.

Walking is accessible - and provides benefits - to the vast majority of individuals. If you are presently in poor health, walking may be the perfect way to build yourself to where you can take on more strenuous physical activity. If you work out regularly, walking is a terrific, low-intensity supplement to enhance your workouts, and in either case, walking has been shown to stimulate creative thinking and reduce depressive symptoms.

For a focus on the physical side, check out the podcast with The Model Health Show’s Shawn Stevenson, where Shawn lays out the impact that walking can have on blood sugar control, belly fat, blood pressure, and immune system function - the impacts are orders of magnitude greater than I would have imagined.

For a broader look at some of walking’s “subtler” effects, I recommend checking out neuroscientist Shane O’Mara’s book, In Praise of Walking, or one of his podcast appearances; O’Mara’s perspective gave me a much broader appreciation of the virtues of walking.

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