Walking is just about the perfect exercise. Despite it being low-impact, it’s still considered a great aerobic exercise. It can improve high blood pressure and body mass index, and can even lower the risk of health complications such as diabetes and heart disease. Plus, it’s good for your bones and joints! And don’t even get us started on the mental health benefits of being outside in nature (but you, as RVers, already know this)!
How often do you go for a walk? And yes, a walk around the campground loop counts! Walking across the grocery store parking lot, however, does not.
After you vote, please leave a comment and tell us about your walking habits. Inspire us, won’t you?!
my wife walks 16 – 18, 000 steps a day at her work. I walked 18,000 – 32,500 steps a day, but recently not so much. Need to get back into the daily grind.
Weather permitting, every day. We also ride our stationary bike.
We have a dog who gets walked (takes us walking?) twice daily. Thus, at the very least DW and I take one walk each daily. When we are home, she usually gets two and I get one. We both get at least two walks daily when we travel.
I walk daily spring, summer and fall. My walking path is in my backyard created from a shelter belt (snow holder!) which runs the length of our 1.25 acre yard. I make 4 trips around it after supper. However, now it is buried under 8′ of drifted snow – so no walks in the winter. I would think shoveling snow counts a bit more than my arm exercises lifting a beer a day! Speaking of shoveling – we are now snowbound at home – so time to get started on the 200′ driveway!
Good luck, Doug! And don’t overdo it!!! Take care. 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com
My dog would disown me if we walked only once a day.
Walk my dog at least twice a day.
I used to in my younger days but having MS kinda brought that to a hard to do activity.
We are moderately active now that my DW has recovered from knee replacement surgery. Inbad weather we use the air bike, but other times it’s bark Park runs with the pets, arts and craft events and flea markets.
Hubby and I are mid-70s, previous ultra-distance runners who still walk once or twice a day on our small city’s extensive network of multi-use paths + local trails with our three Labs. The dogs each get 1-6 miles/day, the humans 1-15/day. Jim still walks in some 48-72-hour events.
I am fortunate to live in an area that has 80,000 acres of state forest and game management lands. The hills are full of old hill roads that, many years ago, farmers used to get to their fields or connect a farmstead to a “main” road. Growing up my parents showed me where many of these “hidden” hiking gems were. I take my dogs and hike these old paths and hill roads daily.
Walk the dogs we do about 1 1/2 miles daily with a bad back and left side pain that’s the best I can do daily.
I rarely take walks, but, I practice & compete in dog agility and rally, so I do get in a lot of “steps”.
I have a 3.5 year-old golden retriever. ’nuff sed.
Was once a day for a mile or two as the weather permitted. Last year I injured my back, disc moved, so now it’s shorter walks a few times a day. Therapy is helping increase the distance.
Twice a day.
3 miles in the morning and 3 later in the afternoon!
We are Florida “Snowbirds”.
A few times a week. But a bike ride, at least once a day and usually several times a day!
I walk several miles a day as part of my exercise routine.
3 times a day
Being physically disabled, a few hundred feet is a long walk for me. My walker Mobility Scooter or Cricket SX3 are my mobility aids.
Ed, a few hundred feet is my max too. I try every day to add a foot or two.
Kelly, I’m with you and Ed. My Oxygen hose is only 27′ long! Makes for SHORT walks! Doesn’t even get me to the kitchen!!
Other forms of exercise…. Lifting a beer to your lips does not count 😂
It counts if you walk from the living room to the kitchen, or from the porch to the kitchen, doesn’t it?