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Walking Is Making a Major Comeback
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2280" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2414207/walking-popularity-comeback-coronavirus" target="_blank"><strong>Walking Is Making a Major Comeback - Outside Online</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Many of us have long dismissed this gentle, approachable activity for more adrenaline-pumping forms of exercise. We've been missing out—big-time. </strong></p><p></p><p>Until very recently, the idea of going for a walk for fun never crossed my mind. I preferred more heart-rate-boosting, <em>woo!</em>-inducing forms of exercise; my idea of a good time included sailing off lippy kickers on my mountain bike or floating through fresh powder on skis. I just didn’t have much use for walking when I didn’t have to. Walking wasn’t going to get me ripped. Walking wasn’t shredding. Walking was good for digestion and something nice I did with my aging parents. Walking too far made my feet swell and my lower back ache. Walking was boring.</p><p></p><p>But like many of us this spring, I started doing a lot of things that were out of character. I stopped drinking. I started <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2411058/homemade-bread-baking-tips" target="_blank">baking bread</a>. I planted flowers and succulents and somehow kept them alive. I played board games. And I started going on long walks. </p><p></p><p>I could blame the baking, the <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2412782/coronavirus-victory-gardens" target="_blank">gardening</a>, the board games, and the teetotalism on the new restrictions caused by the novel coronavirus. I joked that I was playing quarantine bingo, systematically ticking off every trope on my Instagram feed. But the seed for the walking was planted well before the pandemic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2280, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.outsideonline.com/2414207/walking-popularity-comeback-coronavirus'][B]Walking Is Making a Major Comeback - Outside Online[/B][/URL] [B]Many of us have long dismissed this gentle, approachable activity for more adrenaline-pumping forms of exercise. We've been missing out—big-time. [/B] Until very recently, the idea of going for a walk for fun never crossed my mind. I preferred more heart-rate-boosting, [I]woo![/I]-inducing forms of exercise; my idea of a good time included sailing off lippy kickers on my mountain bike or floating through fresh powder on skis. I just didn’t have much use for walking when I didn’t have to. Walking wasn’t going to get me ripped. Walking wasn’t shredding. Walking was good for digestion and something nice I did with my aging parents. Walking too far made my feet swell and my lower back ache. Walking was boring. But like many of us this spring, I started doing a lot of things that were out of character. I stopped drinking. I started [URL='https://www.outsideonline.com/2411058/homemade-bread-baking-tips']baking bread[/URL]. I planted flowers and succulents and somehow kept them alive. I played board games. And I started going on long walks. I could blame the baking, the [URL='https://www.outsideonline.com/2412782/coronavirus-victory-gardens']gardening[/URL], the board games, and the teetotalism on the new restrictions caused by the novel coronavirus. I joked that I was playing quarantine bingo, systematically ticking off every trope on my Instagram feed. But the seed for the walking was planted well before the pandemic. [/QUOTE]
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