How to make time each day to walk

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It’s one thing to walk to lose weight or keep your weight or just walk for your mental health. But I’m finding the struggle to walk because of time. 

Time is so precious in our lives and sometimes finding time is difficult. So it’s about getting savvy with finding time to walk for your health.

Here are ten ways to fit in time to walk for your health:

1. If you have children and they play a sport, while they are at training, walk laps around the soccer field or walk around the outside of a basketball indoor court. Find a way to move your body like walking when taking your child/children to training. That way you aren’t just sitting for an hour or longer and then go home cook dinner and prepare for bed. You are utilising that hour to benefit you for walking for health.

2. Get up thirty minutes before your normal alarm and walk on a treadmill or go for a walk. The benefits to waking up early before you normally start the day, is impressive. First you will find walking in the morning helps you get more time to start the day walking. Secondly, walking in the early hours wakes you up. And thirdly, you will have more energy in the day because you have done some exercise. 

3. If you work from home, you may get one or two twenty minutes before breaks as well as a lunch break. Use this to quickly jump on the treadmill or walk around cleaning your home so you aren’t moving your body. Go outside in your lunch break for a walk to help you recharge for the day. This not only helps get your body moving from sitting down all day.

4. If you catch public transport such as a train (I would probably only recommend this on a train not a bus), you could walk up each carriage to the end and back again. Some of us sit on a train between 30-60 minutes each way, instead of losing time, use this time for walking for health. You may think people on the train will think you are weird but if you really look, 90% are looking down at their phones and won’t even notice you. Just be careful of bags laying on the floor. 

5. Evenings. Yes, evenings. After you have dinner or before you have dinner, aim for a 30-60minute walk. This will help you mentally wind down from the day. It will also highlight anything to focus on tomorrow. It’s healthy for you to walk after work in a safe environment (if outside walk where there is good lighting and lots of people around and make sure you take your mobile with you). It also helps tire your body out for bedtime. Evenings can be harder because the days toll can get to us and it’s much easier to sit down and watch TV. However, if night time is the only available time you have, take it! A treadmill might be a good idea also if you don’t want to walk outside at night. 

6. Try walking somewhere new. Go somewhere on your weekend and walk somewhere new. This could be a walk along the beach or a hike in the woods. Just really challenge yourself to go for a long walk. It is best to do daily walks but it’s also a good idea to spice up your walking locations with some adventures, so you forget you are even exercising! 

I hope you find at least one walking tip to help you find time to walk! 

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