Sunday, December 07, 2014

Walk It

  Yours truly owns a dog so walking is a big part of my daily activity. I just got back from a 30 minutes walk with the doggie in the cold morning air and it really brightens you up.

AlterNet: The Incredible Benefits of Humankind's Most Basic Form of Exercise—Walking - Four reasons walking has become America's 'untrendiest trend.' Hint: It's not just health.
2. The accelerating costs of owning one, two or more cars, which many Americans, especially younger people, find a poor investment of their resources. Transportation is now the highest cost in family budgets (19 percent) next to housing (32 percent). In auto-dependent communities--where walking is inconvenient and unsafe-- transportation costs (25 percent) approach housing costs (32 percent).

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

I try and get out and either jog or walk daily. The weather though goes downhill about now, so I probably will be in the gym for much of the next four mos. as well. I greatly refer being outside in the fresh air though. Gyms are disease breeding grounds in the winter.

Jim Sande said...

We got a Y nearby and I really like the dry sauna in the winter. It helps keep the winter blues away for me.