20 Exercise Tips by Jane Thurnell-Read

Experts are urging us to walk more - to take 10,000 steps a day. Here's some tips from the UK Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists on how you can incorporate this into your daily life.

• Get off your train or bus a stop early and walk the rest of the way
• Take a walk in your lunch hour, and explore the neighbourhood
• Walk the dog
• Use the stairs instead of the lift/elevator
• Park further away from the shops/stores
• Don’t use the car for short trips – walk instead
• Get up to change the TV channel (hide the remote)
• Put on some lively music while you clean your house and dance while you’re dusting!
• Walk over to visit a friend, instead of driving
• Get outside to mow the lawn or do some weeding
• Walk, run and play actively with your children or grandchildren
• Walk up escalators
• Walk your child to school
• Window shop
• Plan a walking meeting
• Take a walking break instead of a coffee break at work
• Take up dancing — ballroom, clogging, you name it. Most of us love music, and it’s fun!
• Take a walk after dinner
• Don’t phone or email your office colleagues; walk over to see them whenever possible
• Walk around while you are on the phone. You can add about 100 steps in a five-minute conversation

If you're not used to taking any exercise at all, make some of these changes - you might get to like it.

You never know you might get fit enought to want to walk a marathon.

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