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National Walking Month

This entry was posted in General May 16, 2022

National Walking Month

Can you believe it's May already? Where is this year going?

As it's National Walking month here at Ableworld we feel it's relevant to mention the benefits of walking a small amount every day and how doing low-impact exercises can not only improve your physical self but also your mental well-being.

The one constant we have here in the UK is the weather and how unbelievably unpredictable it can be – you can be out one day enjoying the sun and the next sat at home cooped up with a cup of tea watching the rain. So, we need to have the option of doing walking exercises indoors and outdoors.

Light walking exercises for outdoors:

  1. A simple outdoor walk – Go to the local garden centre or to a park, this offers so many benefits, it can increase your blood flow, help your heart, strengthen your bones and improve your mental health and wellbeing. Try to increase your walking speed on every walk you do, this will slowly help build up your fitness.
  2. Gardening – It gets you into the fresh air and the different aspects of gardening i.e., mowing the lawn, weeding, planting flowers, watering the plants – moving your body enough that it can keep you active and help prevent some diseases. If you need extra support getting up and down from the floor to do your gardening, we have a great gardening tool to help with that.

Light walking exercises for indoors:

  1. Walking up the stairs – Whether that be at home or at work, take the stairs instead of the escalator or lifts. Even a very small amount of walking up and down stairs can increase your cardiovascular health and also your mood. Start by adding just one extra trip up the stairs each day and then every other day add another.
  2. Doing the food shop – You might not notice the benefits of walking around a supermarket may do for you, but that extra outing in a day can help improve your fitness. Brisking your way through the shopping aisles with a trolley on a Saturday afternoon, you may not consider this to be exercise but on average people walk more than 2,000 steps just to do their weekly supermarket shop. Or if you need the extra support, we have a 3-wheel lightweight walker which is ideal for indoor and outdoor use and also has a handy removable bag great for shopping and storage.

It’s recommended that you do 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise 3 times a week. But moving in a way that’s safe and beneficial to you is the best way to go – if you need to ease yourself into light exercise standing for longer periods of time than your body is used to and repeating this a number a few times a day or using a chair or stool to do simple gentle exercises that won’t exert you too much is a great start.

We have numerous walking aids at Ableworld if you need a little extra help getting out and about this spring/ summer period, from walkers to walking sticks to crutches and trolleys.

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