52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

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Time a 12 minute walk from your front door, and take it as often as you can (without overthinking or overcomplicating anything).She shows me her walking boots which don’t taper, as most shoes do, but let your toes splay naturally. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.

Dog walkers do this as a matter of course but in my experience, it’s becoming otherwise increasingly rare. Memories start to sort of be shifted around and be processed … so it’s been really effective with veterans and people who have got PTSD. Modern life has rendered walking an optional pursuit, but Streets makes a compelling, evidence-based case for the benefits of a daily stroll. Take them out and listen to the birds, the trees rustling in the wind, the babbling brook, and you won’t make other walkers feel awkward when they speak to you by having to wait while you take them out! Photograph: Kate Peters/The Observer ‘Terpenes are the trees’ own immune system and when you walk underneath them you breathe that self-protection mechanism’: Annabel Street.Streets carefully breaks down the psychological and physical benefits of [walking], and makes a solid case that getting some movement in outside can help one “appreciate the exquisitely complicated and beautiful world we inhabit.