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Rosalie Lynch has spent well over 20 years as CEO of a professional trade association. She has experience in being editor of a monthly magazine and newsletter. The Governor of Indiana bestowed upon her the Sagamore Award, which is the highest level of recognition for her success as a lobbyist and for her contributions to the citizens of Indiana. Her credentials as a Certified Coach provides her the avenue to faciliate coaching kids and parents ... [More]

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Do Your Kids Believe in Themselves?
[Kids-and-Teens] As a parent you need to let your kid know that you do not expect them to be perfect. You know they are going to make mistakes and have behaviors that are not acceptable. You do not want your kid to be afraid of making mistakes.

Who Are the Trusted Friends of Your Kids?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Now that my grandson is entering the Tween age and it became important to make a list of people in his life that he can go to for help. We listed the names and telephone numbers for him to put in his backpack. When he is pressure by his peers or at risk for his safety he has a list of friends to call immediately.

Keep Kids in a Positive Attitude Mode
[Kids-and-Teens] Kids do have bad days just like adults do. They just do not have the copying skills to get them out of a bad day. Accept the fact that your kid may be having a bad day and their behaviors are going to give you a clue to this fact.

Build Kids For Challenges
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Physical and mental health will be the biggest issue over the next few decades for kids and adults. Our kids belong to the next few decades, don't they? What are we parents doing to ensure that our kids will be able to cope to their future pressures?

Kids Want to Behave Well
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] You may be surprised to see that I think kids want to behave well. We know that sometimes bad behaviors are intentional on behalf of the kids and we question if they will ever learn good behavior.

The Family Dinner Table
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] I can remember growing up in a family of 4 kids and 2 parents that meal time around the kitchen table was a fun event. We talked and laughed; we told stories of our day and always started the meal with a prayer. We kids looked forward to spending time with mom and dad together in the evening before homework time and bath time.

Creating Family Traditions
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] Kids need to know that your family has "family traditions". When my two daughters were growing up every Christmas Eve we would have a fondue feast. If I recommend having ribs instead of fondue, you would think I was destroying the family so we have continued to have fondue for over 45 years.

Challenges Make a Difference in Our Lives
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Meeting challenges in life is the foundation in building our lifestyles. Our lives would be empty without the challenges we face everyday. Everyone has experienced simple challenges that are easy to conquer as well as challenges that nearly dropped us to the ground. Some of them we have no control over when and why they happen. And, believe it or not, there are some we sign up for because we want to accomplish something important in our lives.

Kids and What They Say
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Listening to kids will always pay big benefits to adults! Kids are very direct in asking questions and we as adults should be prepared to answer no matter how uncomfortable we may feel at the time.

Walking - Whatever Your Motivation Might Be!
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] I was talking with a lady who is always trying to drag her husband out for a walk after dinner. He never seemed to want to go. She asked one of her lady neighbor friend to walk with her. Her neighbor came by in short shorts and a cute blouse and she announced to her husband they were going for a walk. He jumped up out of his chair and announced he was going to join them. What was his motivation?

Is Walking a Seasonal Activity?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] We are excited that football season has arrived and we cheer our favorite team on to victory almost every weekend. Baseball season has just ended. We are getting ready for the seasons of Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are finishing up the fall season and heading straight into winter. We love seasonal sports and holidays and plan our lives around them.

Can Driving Or Riding in a Car Build a Healthy Body?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] We should have never put walking on the back burner when the automobiles became so popular. Driving and riding in a car has successfully contributed to us having an overweight and unhealthy body. While we are driving our cars, we stop by the local bookstore to purchase books on losing weight.

Business Walking Meetings
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When you have a scheduled meeting with a person, or a group of people, announce that you want to have a walking meeting. I know I had to conduct staff evaluations annually and often thought there has to be a better way, particularly if there is a conflict issue and you want to diffuse a difficult situation.

Walkers Eat Wholesome Foods
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] My podiatrist is a runner. We were talking about wholesome foods and he quickly responded by saying "eat fruit, vegetables and whole grain-that is all you need". I thought he was nuts. I started studying the "wholesome foods" and quickly realized he may be right.

Walking - Does a Walkable Community Appeal to You?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] People ask what a walkable community is and why I am an advocate to finding a residence in a walkable community. That is a great question and I would like to answer it. It provides the unique ability to get around on foot and provides places to walk to so we do not have the expense of a car or we can leave our car parked, except for long distance.

Walkers - Taking the First 10,000 Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] People who have a lead a sedentary life for many years need someone to inspire them to get up and move their bodies. There is a misunderstanding that a person has to walk no less than 10,000 steps a day to reap healthy benefits.

Walking - Can Employers Mandate Walking to Earn Insurance Benefits?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The government trying to figure out our national health coverage is amazing to me. At times they relate bad health to taxation. Suggestions such as: taxing diet sodas, cigarettes, alcohol, fast foods and other items have been mentioned. I'm not sure anyone cares that our bad health is often the result of lack of physical activity.

Determine Your Walking Level Before Creating Your Goals
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It is important to understand if your walking level and goals match your abilities to achieve your objectives. The reason a walkers motivation weakens is because they are on the wrong track.

Walking - How Can I Walk In Cold Weather?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The calendar says it is fall. The weather says it is 32 degrees. The arrival of winter will challenge your commitment to walking outdoors. You can keep walking outside during cold weather if you choose; however, you need to follow a few safety tips to help keep you stay safe and warm.

Walking - What Does it Take to Get You Walking?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It is exhausting to coach clients who have a million and one excuses for not taking care of their health. One client explained to me that she does not have the time to even walk. I do not think it dawns on her that she walks every day going about her daily schedule.

Identifying Yourself For Emergency Help While Walking and Exercising
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Do you like to adventure to new walking places? Do you have a medical condition that strangers need to know, if you need help? I have directed people to carry 3 x 5 index cards with their information written down in case of an emergency.

Planning For a Long Walk
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Making plans for a vacation trip is common to most of us. We pick a location; search for interesting activities; make hotel reservations and wash and pack clothes for everyone in the family. There are many walkers who want a "vacation" day of taking a long walk and know they need to plan for such an event.

Kids and Birthday Return Gifts
[Kids-and-Teens] I was reading an article on birthday return gifts and I thought this meant you receive birthday gifts that did not fit; you did not like or just did not need and you would return them. This is NOT what "birthday return gifts" mean in this day and age at all.

Kids Blamed For Depression of Parents
[Kids-and-Teens] The author of the study said the finding suggest that being a parent is far more stressful then most people expect and that the benefits of parenting do not outweigh the negative effects in terms of mental health.

Kids - Are They "Builders" Or "Destroyers"
[Kids-and-Teens] In the movie "South Pacific" there is a song titled "You've Got To Be Taught". Kids are taught, or not taught, to be a builder or a destroyer. I do not mean that we adults set out to teach our kids the "builder/destroyer" concept.

Kids and Building Self Esteem
[Kids-and-Teens] By complimenting a kid you will build their self esteem. The one thing that I have noticed in interviewing kids is their lack of self esteem. They are insecure little people who need reassurance most days that they are OK.

Kids and Making Decisions
[Kids-and-Teens] During the first few years in the life of a child, parents make all of their decisions for them. However, there comes an age when parents must teach the child to make some of their decisions so they will learn how. Living with the consequences of the kids decisions may prove challenging.

Disciplining Your Kids
[Kids-and-Teens] If you ask parents if they enjoy dishing out discipline to their kids, the answer will always be "no" they do not enjoy it. After all it makes them feel bad and of course it makes the kid feel bad. You may be surprised at the attitude of some kids toward discipline.

Shake Up Your Walking Routine
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When people say they get bored with walking, I believe it is because they do not advance to the next level they are capable of achieving. They walk the same route, wear the same clothes and shoes, walk the same time of each day and are stuck.

Walking - Look For the Little Things to Make a Huge Difference in Creating a Healthy Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] There are little things that I have discovered that will make a big difference on your walking experiences. They are simple things that you may not think of doing; however, they are natural movements to your body. So, get your mind in tune with your body and make your walking more interesting.

Walking - Five Tips For Proper Posture
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Walking posture is something do not pay enough attention to. We put on our sport clothes, pair of tennis shoes, open the door and start walking. It has been discovered, and reported, that it is more than that in benefiting from your walking exercise. Posture has a lot to do with preparing and keeping our bodies in tack for the purpose of achieving healthy benefits.

Kids Listening to Adults
[Kids-and-Teens] As adults we strive every day to teach our kids about life. Sometimes we go into long explanations or sometimes just shout out our point of view. We blame kids for not listening to us and tell them: "you never listen to me". However, have you considered that maybe they don't know what you are saying-it is above their comprehension?

Are You Walking With a Purpose?
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The difference between a walker and a walker with a purpose is the reason they step one foot in front of the other. We have seen thousands of people walking for their favorite charities every year because someone in the life has died or struggling with a particularly deadly disease.

Walking Hats to Prevent Head Skin Cancer
[Cancer:Skin-Cancer] Walking early in the morning or in the evening should be safe for us to get our Vitamin D from the sun without the fear of skin cancer. However, in the heat of the very hot summer months everyone needs to protect their heads. Men who are privilege to have bald heads must be aware of protecting their skin from the sun at all times.

Walkers - Are You Tired of Getting Tired?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] For years we have heard that exercising will give you more energy and that is true. However, a lot of people do not even get started walking because they are too tired. If people would understand all it would take is a fifteen minute walk to relax their brain and their body and they would be energized. Reducing fatigue will help to enhance your performance and endurance to accomplish your goals.

Walking and Running Shoes - Forget Your Size and Go For Proper Fit
[Recreation-and-Sports:Sports-Apparel] It takes effort to find the properly fitted shoe. Normally, one foot is a little longer or a little wider than their mate and this could cause a problem in fitting both feet correctly. At some running stores, they will let you put the shoes on and walk/run outside to determine how they fit.

Walk Away from the Prescription Medicines
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] It has been researched, and proven, that for the first time it appears that half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems. It was hard to believe when I read that 51% of children and adults are taking one or more prescription drugs.

Changing Your Attitude Toward Walking, Exercising
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Having a bad attitude toward exercising brings bad health. There are a few different ways you can change your attitude and actually enjoy exercising. However, it takes a plan to develop a new attitude.

Creating a Mindset to Walk
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Why do some people hate exercise? I have observed some people speaking in an angry voice if they are asked "why don't you exercise". Most of the time it is because they forgot to prepare their brain they enjoy exercising.

Why Walking Can Be a Challenge
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] "I start walking and then I stop, why does that happen?" is a question I am asked quite often by unhealthy people trying to become a healthier person. When asked the question "Why do you want to walk-what is your goal?" They look blankly into space without an answer!

Walking - Let Inspiration Control Your Exercise Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You do not have to supply yourself with the inspiration to keep motivated with your walking activity. Let other people inspire you; surround yourself with positive messages and people; wear t-shirts with inspiring messages when you dress for your walk. You can post motivation messages on your computer to read everyday.

Walk Training - As a Supporter of a Marathon, You Need to Train Your Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Everyone is our family spent 16 weeks encouraging our marathon runners in the family as they were going through their training. I think our favorite slogan was "You can do it".

Walking Barefoot in Shoes
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Remember the television commercial "It is Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature?" Well, Mother Nature intended for us to walk in our bare feet on soft surfaces such as dirt or grass. Two or three times a year we buy walking/running shoes which costs hundreds of dollars. We spend this money to protect our feet because after we flattened the earth and covered it in concrete, the ground was suddenly too hard for our feet to take.

Walking Toward Your Own Aging Process
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many people drift into old age and do not give consideration to a physical plan in order to stay healthy in their aging years. Getting started now and making small changes to your lifestyle with a physical/exercise plan and eating healthy will give you a head-start with your aging process. And the easiest way to do this is to walk regularly.

Tracking Your Walking Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] For the purpose of increasing your momentum, a designated walk is extremely important. However, you are accumulating steps throughout your day that you are not claiming. Do not take your activity for granted. There are two ways to account for the distance you are walking:

Can You Walk Off the Harm That Diet Sodas Put on Our Bodies?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] It happened today - I read another health article that diet drinks are bad for a person if they are trying to lose weight. After reading the article, I became very sad because I love my Diet drinks. Diet drinks are calorie free and that is what I like. The criticism is the artificial sweetener that is put in diet drinks.

Checking on Our Aging Parents
[Home-and-Family:Elder-Care] I'm an advocate of kids, usually our Baby Boomers, check on their parents and the level of their activity. Our parents made sure we receive the appropriate exercise when we were kids and always made sure we ate our vegetables because they wanted us to be healthy. I believe, with all of my heart, that it is now time for the kids to make sure their aging parents are getting their appropriate exercise and healthy eating to remain healthy.

The B & B Exercise Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercise is one of the greatest stress relievers. It has the power to change your mental or emotional state, thus making you more productive and able to meet the challenges in your life. Many studies provide proof that walking is an excellent exercise to relief stress. I call this the B & B (brain and body) exercise program.

Stretch You Body Daily
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You can go to a zoo or look at your favorite house pet and you will notice that they are stretching their bodies. Stretching to an animal is a common activity to ensure their quick movements, when needed. A person needs to find ways using the full, unrestricted range of motion of every muscle group in the body.

Decisions Equal Consequences in Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] A person is forced (yes, I said forced) to take actions each and every day. These actions could be professionally driven or personally driven. We know when we make decisions that every single action we take affects our life and most times other the lives of other people.

Rainy Day Walking Exercises
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] We advise people who walk outside to put a variety in their workout. The same is true for people who find it impossible to go outdoors and walk because of the weather or their safety. It is important that each day you have a variety of techniques to build your strength and endurance.

Do You Want a Healthy Brain? Go For a Walk
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] We are learning the healthy benefits your body will receive by walking daily. Let's examine some of the benefits your brain will enjoy as well. Walking for relaxation is a great way to reduce your stress, tension, fatigue as well as release some of your anxieties. With each step you take, practice breathing deeply-inhale and exhale with each step. You can even leave your pedometer behind because you are out for relaxation walk so there are no strings attached.

The Hidden Secret of Losing Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many books, personal trainers and television stars say, in various fashions, all you need to do is exercise to burn calories and you will lose weight. This is true; however, people keep jumping on the bathroom scales to see how much weight they lost by exercising. One day the weight goes up and the next day the weight goes down which reaps disappointment in seeing results. There is a secret to stop this yo-yo effect which causes many people to just give up.

Three Places to Walk When Traveling on Business
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] People complain that finding the time to walk is hard to do. Time management is important to a schedule that includes creating a healthy body. However, there are places to walk that you may not have considered. I know my job took me on several trips per year and exercising was not on the schedule. The opportunities were there all the time and I did not recognize them.

Sneaking Exercise Into Your Busy Life
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You can not be too busy to exercise. A lot of people begin their exercise routine--oh, that is the problem calling it a "routine." People start off great with their exercise of choice and then fail to keep the spark going so they stop with the statement, "I'm too busy." What they are saying, I believe, is "I set a specific time to exercise and something always interferes with it."

Walking Might Save Relationships
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] One of my purposes for going for a walk today was to say "hi" to as many neighbors I could and reach out to those I did not know personally. As I was strolling I came upon a lady who was crying and I said, "Oh, my goodness, you are crying. Are you hurting somewhere or can I help you?"

Safety When Walking
[Health-and-Fitness] As you walk, enjoy yourself; however, be prepared when it comes to your safety if you choose to walk somewhere you are not familiar with as you may run into unwelcome trouble. There are several items to consider when a person takes the time to analyze their safety in walking.

Exercise Can Be a Selfish Commitment
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It appears everyone is too busy to pay much attention to their health until they experience a medical disease. It would be wonderful to change this attitude; however, it is hard to learn to be selfish!

Going to the Doctor to Feel Better
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When it comes down to it, people go to their doctor to "get help so I will feel better" and to their dismay their doctor writes a prescription for "get exercise - start by walking". We have at our finger tips evidence linking obesity to the risk of many serious health problems such hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and many other illness.

The Importance of Rhythm When Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Why is it important to have a body rhythm when you walk? When a person holds their head straight and laying softly on their shoulders, swinging their arms in a rhythm without any effort the feet will follow. A walker has the flow of rhythm at that time.

Airport Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The great thing about walking is that you can walk most anywhere you choose. Working as Executive Director for a state association for over 25 years I had to fly across the USA several times a year.

Helpful Tips to Get Started Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] One of my clients wrote to me saying she just got back from a session with her medical doctor for an auto-immune problem that flares ever so often. Her doctor said that "walking is the perfect exercise for her". She wanted to know how to start a walking program. You would assume people would just get up, go outdoors and walk and that is not always true. Or, their first walk it is a bad experience for them and they want to quit. Is there a way to get started effectively so it is a healthy experience and a fun experience? The answer is "yes".

Helpful Hints to Expand Your Walking Activity
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Starting slow and easy is important to the beginner walker. However, after a couple of weeks it is important to expand your steps and add speed, endurance and strength.

You Wimped Out of Your Walking Program - Now What?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It happens to all of us at least one time in our lives. You are going strong in your exercise program and an issue in your life gets you off track and it is hard to get going again. Now what do you do? There are four action steps you can take to get back on track.

Every Health Walk is Different
[Health-and-Fitness] "I walk for my health" is a statement you will hear from people who feel they have to explain why they are walking. The short definition of a health walk is: "a purposeful, brisk walk undertaken on a regular basis" and it can include any style of walking which is specifically designed and carried out for the purpose of improving health.of each individual person.

Do You Give Your Muscles Time to Recover?
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] We have been taught that strong muscles give our bodies energy. We hit the gym and lift weights and do what I call "machine exercising" to stimulate them make us strong. Some people are so enthusiastic about this that they go once in the morning and once in the evening not realizing that our muscles have to have a "recovery" period.

Walking - Being Active As You Age
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] The fact of life is with age, our bones tend to lose density and our muscles start to weaken. Even though it happens to everyone you don't have to give in to the effects of aging. However, we are not the young athletics who can meet most physical activities they choose.

7 Reasons to Walk in Your House
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] You may not walk outdoors; however, you can indoors and still reap the healthy benefits. Would it surprise you if I told you that walking-in-place, in your living room, allow you to use a wider range of steps to work all of your muscles instead of the muscles you use over and over again by walking outside?

Stress Hormones - Do Not Over Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Everyone has their opinion on how often and how much a person needs to exercise to gain and strength muscle or to loose weight. The growing consensus seems to be to take it slow and steady and you can achieve both. You absolutely need to exercise and/or do your chosen workouts for the purpose of have a healthy body and living a healthy lifestyle.

How to Renew Your Momentum
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Why do we stop and start in reaching our goals? So many people achieve their momentum and a crisis in life stops our momentum. It is almost impossible to get started again and re-gain our momentum. Gaining momentum in our lives runs into difficulty when we run hot and then run cold.

Living in a "Walkable" Community
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Do you recognize the attitude of Americans may be changing, even under protest? A college student was telling me how expensive it is to own a car, maintain a car, and gas up the car that she is considering walking and riding a bike. She appeared to be angry about the whole transportation issue.

Obese People Make Athletic Endeavors Everyday
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] I have known a few obese people who are just as active than normal weight people. It is rare that you see an overweight person running in the Chicago running marathon. Being overweight is not healthy for many reasons and I am not advocating people become obese.

Take Off Your Shoes and Walk Barefoot
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] I grew up when life was simple and natural. As a kid it was normal to go outside and play in our bare feet.

Kids and Fresh Air
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] I am an advocate for kids getting fresh air and sunshine. During the school year they are mostly inside their classroom breathing stale air like we do working in an office or at home. There is a new study released emphasizing that kids who get to go outdoors throughout the day in short periods of time make better students.

Staying Motivated With Your Health Program
[Health-and-Fitness] The main issue of starting any type of exercise program is staying motivated. The problem is not staying motivated, but understanding why you would quit an exercise program, such as walking, without giving it a second thought. You start and then all of us sudden you quit.

A Natural Way to Get Vitamin D in Your Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] I have read that one simple vitamin deficiency is causing the increase in diabetes, arthritis, many cancers, multiple sclerosis, high blood pressure, and a host of other preventable diseases. Nearly 100% of people with the diseases listed above lack the proper amounts of vitamin D in their body.

Can You Improve Your Breathing by Walking?
[Health-and-Fitness] There are muscles all around your lungs. Lungs are composed of soft tissue and the healthy tissues and muscles can adapt and can change. So breathing will improve when you are walking.

Keep Your Passion in Balance
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] By definition, passion is a strong intense feeling for a person, place, thing or action. It is a life, a dream, and a desire. You want what you deserve in life; you want what you work so hard to accomplish and you want to live the little dream you keep stored deep inside your mind.

Don't Lose Your Exercise Focus
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many goal driven people find that having a target, and being able to see how you're doing, helps keep them focused. They have trained their brain to exercise 5 days a week or they keep an Action Journal writing down what they have accomplished in their exercise program.

Walking With the 5:00 PM Crowd
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Have you ever been in a city similar to Chicago and be downtown when the office personnel gets off work? What I experienced was amazing. People of all ages, all sizes and all personalities hit the streets and take off walking in their tennis shoes.

Community Involvement Prevents Loneliness
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] As many people enter the Baby Boomer stage in life, are they so busy that they can not help take care of their aging parents? Aging parents are left in their homes, apartments and trailers waiting for their kids to drop by and say "Hi, do you need anything"? The loneliness sits in quickly when a person thinks they are forgotten.

Cross Training Exercise is Mandatory to Prevent Boredom
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Cross training is any fitness activity other than your primary sport. Cross training is used to improve your fitness level and stay active.

How Walking Stimulates Your Brain
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] What happens to your brain when you walk? The aerobic activity releases hormones like adrenaline and they are important elements in your nervous system. Endorphins are also released in your body when you are walking and relieves pain and creates a sense of well being and can produce a relieve from sadness, depression or anxiety.

5 Ways to Become Healthier As a Walker - Stop Sitting Around
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Whether a person is involved in a home business or maintaining an exercise program, our brain sometimes get stuck. Our minds get stuck so our bodies get stuck. We develop habits in the way we move or we stop moving the ways we did when we were little kids.

Music Makes Walking Fun?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] For those of us who like music playing to assist us in our walking stride, we download our favorite songs onto our iPod and take off. If you know that you are feeling really great and looking forward to an energetic walk, pop that music; such as: "Flying High" from the movie "Rocky" with Sylvester Stallone. You know that song is always pumped up music and will get you outside and helps you become a go getter in your stride.

Foot Pain is a Pain in the Brain - Protect Your Feet While Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] And, sometimes our feet are in pain and we wonder what is going on. On my left foot I was having trouble with swelling and was painful to walk. The doctor ordered me to have an X-ray and MRI and the results were that I had what was called fallen arches. They immediately custom-built my insoles and I wear them all day, every day to relieve the pain and swelling. It strains the muscles of your feet and calves when your arches collapse.

Walking and Meditation
[Health-and-Fitness:Meditation] Meditation Walking is defined as a method of walking and meditating at the same time and you may also hear it referred to as: Contemplative or Spiritual Walking Practices, Labyrinth Walking, Pilgrimages, Quests. Many churches and spiritual groups organize meditation walking for members of their congregation/group. Often they provide an opportunity for complete silence during the walks even if you are walking in a group.

Walking Works Your Body Inside and Outside
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] 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.

Walking Under Water Will Build Muscles
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] We have been in swimming pools where we walk under water and enjoy the fun of being with other swimmers in a controlled environment. However, what if you are walking the beach and the environment is open for you to participate in whatever type of walking you have chosen for the day. Michael Barrett is an avid walker and he writes to me ever so often to share new methods he has incorporated into his walking practices.

Helpful Hints When Walking With Flat Feet
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] If you have flat feet you should try to buy shoes with an arch. This is very beneficial to your body. If you try to wear a shoe with an arch and you have flat feet you are going to feel like you are walking on a boulder. It feels like there is something hard under your foot that is just not right.

How to Train For a Marathon Walk-Run
[Recreation-and-Sports:Running] You must understand that very few people can make the decision to participate in a 26 mile walk/run the morning of the marathon and cross the finish line the same day. You have to train for about 3-4 months in order to be physically fit to endure this distance.

Volksmarch Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] A volksmarch is a non-competitive event and usually a walk through a scenic and/or historic area over a predetermined route. It's not a pledge walk, it's not a race, it is a fun activity you can do with a club, with your family, with your pet, or all by yourself at your own pace.

Can You Become a Long Distance Walker?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] One draw back for a lot of people is that it takes time (hours plus minutes) to accomplish long distance walking. It takes planning in what your distance will be to accomplish your goal. You must be realistic about setting your goals.

Walking in the Heat Can Be Dangerous
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It is important to be aware of the serious health conditions you may experience yourself or see other people experiencing the dangers of heat and need to help them. Learn the danger signs of over exposure to heat while walking or running.

Exercise is Not the Answer to Losing Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The food you put in your mouth will determine your weight! You can exercise and exercise; however, if you are inputting more calories of the wrong foods and expect an exercise program to drop your weight it will not happen!

How Do I Become an Interval Walker?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] There is a way you could burn more calories while you are walking. Consider starting an Interval Walking training program.

Do You Qualify As a Fitness Walker?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Determining what your fitness level is will help you to determine what type of walker you choose to be. If your fitness level is medium or high, you may want to kick-it-up a notch to Nordic Poles, Interval or Power Walking.

Advantages of Family Exercise Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Kids do not have to think about moving their bodies. Most kids are active all day long.

Last Walk Before Jogging or Running - What is It?
[Recreation-and-Sports:Running] Power walking, also known as speed walking, is a cross between regular walking and jogging. An extreme form of physical activity known as race walking involves rigorous rules and requirements during timed events. Power walkers walk at a speed at or near the speed at which most people would break into a jog.

The Benefits of Walking Backwards
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The benefit of walking is you may vary your stride style. You can always advance and vary your experience so it is never boring and you can accomplish the "whole body" experience of healthy benefits.

Mud Walking is an Exercise Designed For Active People
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] There are two ways of experiencing mud walking. The first one is putting on really stable shoes; find a muddy pathway and doing your best to walk without falling on the slippery mud. The second way is covering your body with moor mud and walking outside until the mud hardens.

Health Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The doctor has told you to get up, move your body and take a walk. I call this the health walk. Most of the time if you do not take the doctor's advice your medical condition may get worse. The medical profession is sending the message that people have to get up and move their bodies in order to stay healthy.

Start With a Stroll Walk
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Many walkers start out by strolling. Strolling is defined as: to walk leisurely; to ramble; to saunter; to take a walk; to wander or rove from place to place;to walk along the beach and/or countryside. For many people who have had a sedentary lifestyle will start their exercise with a nice, leisurely, slow strolling.

Can You Become a Hill Walker? Yes, You Can!
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Walking on a flat surface is great if you are a beginner walker or you have medical conditions that restrict your strenuous activities. However, for most walkers finding hills to climb up and walk down is a challenge and we love to climb those hills.

How to Be a Successful Pedometer Step Walker
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] This is perhaps the favorite walking style if you are walking for a healthy body. It is not strenuous and is based on how many steps did your feet walk in a day. Pedometers are inexpensive and can be life saving.

Walking on a Beach Shore in Sand
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] I have never met a person who did not love walking on the beach next to water splashing on your feet. Did you know that walking in sand requires a greater effort than walking on a hard surface? Your muscles and tendons will work harder as your foot moves around.

Dog Walking
[Pets:Dogs] Owning a dog brings consistency and responsibility into our lives because it is mandatory we walk them or twice a day so he/she can take care of their body functions. This provides our motivation to get up and take them for their walk and to get our walk exercise into our daily schedule.

Aerobic Walking With Weights
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] If you have been walking for a while you may want to advance to new ways of walking in order to enhance your healthy experience. There is a way to boost your walking aerobic benefit by adding weights to your routine. Belts or vests with pockets for inserting weights are the safest method since they distribute weight evenly over the upper body

How to Become a Shopping Mall Walker
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] A shopping mall is a great place to walk because it is a safe environment and no matter what the weather is doing outside, you are protected. In small city/town areas there are malls that unlock a few of their doors for walkers to come in before the stores open so you can walk freely without a crowd.

3 Steps in Processing a Change in Your Life
[Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Many people are looking for changes in their lives. They are searching the Internet; they are talking with their friends, family and even strangers; and they are going to religious services to seek out how to make a change and have a different life

Avoid Dehydration While Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] How can you evaluate if you are hydrated after a walking exercise? You will want to acquaint yourself with the signs of dehydration, such as: feeling nausea after your walk; a dry, sticky mouth; dry eyes; diarrhea; vomiting; fever or excessive sweating and you may have dark yellow urine or no urine at all to expel after your walk.

Ten Things to Do When You Walk to Your Vacation Place
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Most of us have learned the healthy benefits of everyday walking. You can expand your experiences by creating a fun activity of walking to any place on this continent you would love to visit. You can choose a place and get the facts on the mileage from your house to your dream vacation site. At this time set that mileage as your goal.

Walking and Sun Protective Clothing
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] There are other ways we can protect ourselves from the sun with clothing and head coverings. We must make sure we are not setting ourselves up for any type of skin cancer when it is so easy to protect our skin from getting too much exposure to the sun.

Protecting Your Feet When You Walk
[Health-and-Fitness] Remember when you walk you are lifting your body weight, which may be 100 to 200 pounds, and your feet lifts that weight. You will need to take the time to: 1) establish what type of walker you are and 2) what kind of shoes you need to purchase to support your feet.

A Weight Loss Program is Like a Business Project
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Make sure the weight loss goals you create make sense. If you weight 200 pounds and you want to weigh 125 pounds, it is unrealistic to say you will accomplish this in 3 months. Ask yourself "why so fast"? Unfortunately, most people think if they hurry and lose weight they can move on to other projects. However, the weight comes back on. Based on many health surveys it is wise to set a realistic goal of losing 3-5 pounds a month for the purpose of keeping the weight off. In consideration of this data, it could take 15 months to reach your goal of losing 75 pounds (as illustrated above). Make no mistake it takes both healthy eating and exercise to get and keep the weight off. In the distance, I can hear all of us crying together - 15 months - that's too long.

Outdoor People Do Not Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] There are many people who do not like to exercise! However, they love to take their daily walk. Some people love to observe and be a part of nature.

5 Reasons to Walk in the Rain
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] Many people believe that a rainy day means staying indoors and waiting for the sun to shine again. There are other people who love to walk in the rain.

Fast Or Slow Walking - Which is Best?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It's not how fast but how long you walk that's important. Let's face it a three-minute journey from your car in the parking lot to your office building probably will not provide many health benefits with the exception that you are "moving your body" by doing this activity.

The Secret in Life is You Must Keep Moving
[Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] "You must keep moving" is a statement you hear when a person lives a very long life and asked "what is your secret for living to be 100 years old". All of my grandparents when they were in their 80's would say "I don't want to sit down (in a wheelchair) because once I sit down I may never get back up". Their instinct was to just keep moving slowly.

6 Basic Steps to Start Your Walking Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] As I was taking my daily walk, my thoughts turned to all the people who could not walk. What would you and I do if we could not stand or put one foot in front of the other? What would life be like for us? I can only imagine that life would be fine because our minds adapt to our circumstances.

Walking Poles For a Whole Body Exercise Workout
[Health-and-Fitness:Fitness-Equipment] People often ask me if poles could help them get more out of their exercise walking program and give them a better workout. The answer is absolutely. Walking with poles gives the body a "whole body workout".

How to Create a Walking Group
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] If you don't like walking alone, invite your spouse, partner, friend or neighbor to join you or start your own walking group. If you crave solitude and want to be on your own, this is the perfect workout. If you'd rather look to others for inspiration, don't go it alone. Start a walking group today!

Healthy Exercise is Ageless
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] We clap our hands, grab the video recorder, call our family and friends and celebrate when our Toddler takes their first walking steps. It is a joyful experience.

Americans Are Failing to Be Healthy
[Health-and-Fitness] I am shocked to learn from the latest research published in the June issue of the American Journal of Medicine that more people would prefer to "pop a pill" than to eat healthy and exercise for their diabetes, blood pressure, heart disease and other health problems. It is always scary when you go to a doctor's office, the physician walks in the room with his prescription pad in their hand. Got a pain - pop this pill. To improve your health there is no pill that is as potent and as powerful as eating healthy and exercise every day!

Pedometers and Kids
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Parents usually agree that their kids are active from the time they get out of bed until the time they go to sleep at night. Activity is a good sign of a healthy kid or adult. However, kids are different from each other. One of your kids may be over-active and another kid not active and it is not noticed. So for a week take a pedometer and put it on your kids. This will also determine what and how much food your kid(s) should consume to support their activity or non-activity.

Weight Loss by Interval Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Do you want to make your walking experience healthier and more interesting? There is a way you could burn more calories. Who doesn't want that? Consider starting an Interval Walking training program.

Walking is the Most Popular Exercise in the Nation
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It could even be argued that we'd be nicer to each other if we walked more. Ever see pedestrians make obscene gestures to each other?

The New Rave of Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The new wave of exercise lies in the fact that people are re-discovering the healthy benefits of walking. Just look around and notice how many people (and their families) are out walking in the fresh air.

The Sitting Disease - Healthy Exercise Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Listen up all of us who sit in front of computers most of the day or sit all day long in a job environment...we are subjective to The Sitting Disease. This particular disease is now a bigger killer than cigarette smoking.

The Lost Art of Walking Book Review
[Book-Reviews:Health-Mind-Body] By the title of Geoff Nicholson's book "The Lost Art of Walking" lead me to believe he would take me back to "Little House on the Prairie" when I remember Caroline walking to town with her basket of eggs under her arms to sell to Harriet and Niles. I think he did better than that. He took us way back in history where people would walk long distances for a price...earning their living by walking and gambling on each mile they would walk.

Health Benefits of Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Why do we choose to walk for a healthy lifestyle? We know the "inner peace" walking bestows upon us as we walk outside and enjoy what nature gives to us. A nice stroll just makes us feel better. However, have you ever thought about walking as a health benefit? Going from a stroll and to an active walk for the purpose of making our bodies healthier is an international rave in exercise. They call it "Exercise Walking."

Sunshine is a Health Benefit
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Did you know that sunlight is every bit as important to our health and well-being as proper nutrition and clean water. Our bodies make Vitamin D when our skin is exposed to sunlight. Vitamin D gives us a protective effect on healthy bone density, muscle weakness, more than a dozen types of internal cancers, multiple sclerosis and Type 1 Diabetes.

Arthritis Helped by Walking
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] It is easy for a person who is suffering from Arthritis to avoid any kind of exercise because of their pain. Slow walking may be just what the doctor ordered to relief some of the pain. If people would keep moving even in pain would relief some of their pain.

Are You in the Walking in the Right Shoe?
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Everyone's feet are different so there is no single "best shoe" for everyone. Did you know that the way you are built, your weight, the surfaces you plan to walk on, and the shape of your feet determine your "best shoe" fit?

The Diabetic Walker
[Health-and-Fitness:Diabetes] Our diabetic physicians tell us that we have to exercise - get up and move our bodies daily. The reason is that physical activity improves insulin sensitivity and helps bring blood glucose levels into the normal range. People with type 2 diabetes can reap the health benefits by engaging in moderate exercise as little as two-and-one-half hours per week.

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listing Clue #8 and Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Inflation of roles usually happens when a kid grow in age. A big sister or a big brother will begin the inflated role of disciplining, yelling and screaming at their younger siblings. If there are no siblings in the family, the kid turns their inflation of roles on their parents.

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listening Clue #7 and Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] You can learn a lot about how your kids are thinking when they are describing something and making their own assumptions, interpretations and perspectives on their story - it is called imagination in the kid's world. When a kid tells me a story, some of the words I use to encourage them are: "Oh my gosh, what happened next?"

Letting Kids Spread Their Mobile Independence
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] We live in a society that demands we keep our kids under our watchful eyes for their safety; and, unfortunately we are becoming aware that we have taken our kid's independence away from them. What has happened to our kids?

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listening Clue #9 and Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Parents need to tune their listening skills by listening to the "throw away" comments their kids make when they are communicating to you. What does this mean? Many times when you communicate/listen to your kids they will make comments that are hurtful, misleading and insulting to you.

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listing Clue #6 and Questions
[Home-and-Family] You will find that most "serious" communication between parent and kids start with sudden, strong or contradictory emotions and end with sudden, strong or contradictory emotions. Read on to re-discover how to handle "emotional arguments" with your kids.

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listening Clue #10 and Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Listen to me with your eyes! During a course on "The Art of Listening" one of the first things they teach you is if someone is talking to you, look them in their eyes so they will know you are listening to what they have to say. Kids believe they deserve eye contract with the person they are talking to and will tell you so when the opportunity is there.

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listening Clue #4 and Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Learning to listen for inconsistent statements helps parents sort out the truth in their kids telling their story of an event. There are a couple of question you can ask as parents.

Kids Who Have Recesses Are Better Students
[Kids-and-Teens] Kids and teens who do not get fresh air throughout their school days are being hindered. Study shows that the students who have a break daily at school are better students. Everyone needs a break, including our kids!!

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listening Clue Number 5 and Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Listen for Nervous Laughter or Signs. Be sure and have what I call "happy talk" with your kids. Enjoy your conversations with your kids about some funny event that happened to them or within the family. You will learn so much about your kids when you "active" listen when they are talking about something that they thought was funny.

Kids and Parent - Subtle Listening Clue Number 3 and Questions
[Home-and-Family] One of the most interesting things to observe in a professional storyteller is when they raise or lower their voice to emphasis a portion of the story. They get strong and/or weak in areas they want you to pay attention to in order to understand the story they are professionally telling you. It is important to their career and if they get more "bookings" for future engagements to tell stories.

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listening Clue Number 2 and Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] If you watch any television at all, particularly the mystery shows, you will hear the detectives/police person say "there are missing pieces" in the investigation. This is true so when you discover that in communicating with your kids, there are missing pieces in their stories. It happens even to us as adults when we are communicating with other adults.

Kids and Parents - Subtle Listening Clue #1 & Questions
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] You have listened to your kids tell stories about an event and their interpretation of what happened. Some expressions of thoughts we laugh at; some expression of thought we think is so cute; some expression of thoughts we don't think are cute; some expression of thoughts we think shows how intelligent our kids are and some expression of thoughts we know just aren't true.

Five Ways to Help Your Kids Set Their 2009 Goals
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] As adults we set goals to achieve during a specific timeline. Teaching our kids to set their goals within a timeline is a valuable lesson learned early.

Kids Having a Bad Day
[Pets] What do kids say would turn a bad day into a good day for them? As adults, we need to pay attention when our kids are having a bad day, particularly at school. For quite a few kids, there is only one answer..read on.

Kids "Muting" Parents
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Kids will continue to watch television even if it is "mute". Kids watch the action of the program, not the verbal content. Kids "mute" parents often!

Testing Kids For Sport Greatness
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Genetically Testing Kids for Sport Greatness. Is this a good idea? Would you do this to your kid?

Settle The Homework Challenge Once And For All
[Reference-and-Education] Should there be a ceiling on the homework assignments the kids bring home? A city council member in New York has introduced such a resolution that restricts the homework assignments made by teachers. His reasoning seems to be that "kids deserve to be kids".

Tweens Music - 3 Ways to Ensure That Your Kids Continue to Choose Good Music and Movies
[Kids-and-Teens] Music plays a very important role in a kid's life. From cradle to the grave our lives are effected by all kinds of music. When I hear music from the 50's, I can sing all of the words and dance the "swing" "jigger bug" and all those famous old moves.

Kids and Teens - Let Kids Have Fun
[Kids-and-Teens] We are taking the fun away from kids - at home and at school. The "Tweens"(ages 8-13) is the first generation that has never been able to go outside alone to play because of safety issues.

Kids and Teens - Why Do Kids Lie?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] We are have said it to our kids: "Don't you lie to me". A look at why kids lie without being taught to lie would be interesting. The kids respond by saying "my best friend is the only person I would not lie to."

Kids and Teens - Four Ways to Show Your Kid Respect
[Kids-and-Teens] In talking with kids, they will tell you they expect very little from their parents--really! I asked them how parents could show them respect. Their responses were simple and needs to be considered.

Kids and Teens - Listening To Kids Is Very Simple To Kids
[Kids-and-Teens] Ask kids what one of their problems is that bothers them the most they will tell you: "getting people to listen to me when I speak". This is not just your "run of the mill" listening like we adults listen to our spouse; listen to the clergy on Sunday morning; your employer and your friends-- no, indeed. Believe it or not, it seems to be a different kind of listening to kids.

Kids and Teens - Just How Smart Is Your Kid?
[Kids-and-Teens] This is very scary. If judged only by their IQ scores, kids today are smarter than any generation since IQ testing began. We all think our kids and/or grandkids are the smartest kid walking on this Earth.

Kids and Teens - I Should Not Live with These People
[Kids-and-Teens] What do parents do when their kids say "I don't think I should live with you" to them. Why would a kid say this to their parents. Read on to find out more.

Kids and Teens - How Do I Find Out the Decisions My Kids Are Making Daily
[Kids-and-Teens] Why did you decide to do that? Parents are confused at the decisions their kids make. Kids make decisions everyday do you know how they determine decisions?

Kids and Teens - Teaching Kids To Create New Behavior Styles Has Changed
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] The appropriate age to teach a kid new behavior styles is around 10 years old when the kid's sole mission is to figure out who they are. It is much easier to teach kids new behaviors than it is to teach adults to change their behavior.