Walking Works your Body Inside and Outside
Walking helps cleanse your whole system. It gets your lymph fluid and blood moving through your body and it uses almost all of your muscles. We have over 600 muscles and most of us since we have grown up use only about 60 or so every day. With walking you are using your legs getting them in front of you and in back of you and you are using muscles in your feet; get down on your heels and roll to the top of your toe and by swinging your arms you are almost using every muscle you got. You also get fresh air and sunshine into your body and there are a lot to be said for the sunshine once you get it into your body and you will want to get it in your eyes; on your skin; it generates vitamin D; creates mental health. You don’t want to get sunburn, but you do want to get sun on your bare skin. If you walk earlier in the day or later in the day and you aren’t going to get sunburn you can skip using that sunscreen.
Many of people understand that weight bearing exercises strengthens your bones. Walking is a weight bearing exercise; you are supporting all of your weight on your feet and bones and are carried by the bones in your legs. The other reason your bones get weak is because of the position we are sitting in and we are not using our muscles to support us so the muscles aren’t pulling on our bones. Our bones were designed to be the support for our muscles when we are walking, running and moving the bones. So walking will even strengthen your bones and that just plain feels good. I know when I first started walking, I would go out for a walk everyday and now days my body says lets go for another walk. And it is because it is a good thing that I have adapted from where I was when I first started out to walk and it felt more like a strain to where I am as of today.
