Hello.
My name is Bret Busby, and I live in Armadale, a suburb of Perth, the state capital of Western Australia. I am an unqualified layman. So, you can take my advice, or leave it. I make no guarantees, as every person is different.
This web site is to promote, and, try to encourage people to perform, the easiest, simplest, most basic form of exercise, that anyone physical capable of walking, can do; walking.
If everyone walked for a mile a day; that is, to get outside, and, walk continuously for a mile a day, the standard of public health would improve greatly.
Walking has many benefits - it is said to reduce the risk of many forms of cancer, reduce stress, improve heart health, improvoving blood circulation and the respiratory system, be good for obtaining and maintaing the appropriate Body Mass Index, and body weight, be good for reducing the risk of diabetes, and, helping to deal with diabetes for people who have diabetes (and, it has been reported that many people have diabetes and have not yet been diagnosed as having it), and, it is a good way to meet neighbours, to see sights, and, in the spring, to take time to smell the flowers.
In 2012, the headteacher of a primary school in Scotland, came up with the idea of getting the primary school children to walk, jog, or run, a mile a day.
See
https://www.thedailymile.org/elainewyllie/
https://www.thedailymile.org/our-vision/
https://www.thedailymile.org/fit-for-life/
https://www.thedailymile.org/
https://www.thedailymilefitforlife.com/
Now, what I suggest, is a slightly different method, to what is suggested by the Daily Mile people.
Their suggestion, is for people to walk, run, or jog, for 15 minutes a day.
My suggestion is to walk for a mile a day.
I am lucky - I have a block in which I live, that my cellphone walking application, using GPS, shows as being slightly more than a mile (a mile is 1600m; 1.6km, and, walking around my block, is about 1.65km), and, it takes me about 20 minutes.
I use an application named FitzeeWalk - in the Google Play Store on my Android smartphone, it is also named "Pedometer And Walking For Weight Loss", so, the name that it shows under the icon to run it; FitzeeWalk, is a more convenient name. It is simple (like me), and, easy to use, and, it keeps a record of the distance walked, the date, and, the time taken. At the completion of a walk, it shows more information, which can be saved, using the Save Screenshot functionality of the smartphone.
Apart from carrying the cellphone (in a pocket), all that is needed, for the walking, is a set of comfortable clothes (such as a tracksuit), and, a good pair of walking shoes.
It is not expensive, and, I believe that most people can do it. I can't truthfully say that everyone can do it - some people can not walk, although, for people who need wheelchairs, travelling the distance, in a wheelchair (not a motorised one), would be good for them, too, I believe.
I have some more relatively easy exercises, on my web page at
http://bretbusby.net/fitness.html
but, this web page, and, this web site, is concerned with getting people to walk for a mile a day.
As I have explicitly said above, I am an unqualified layman, and, I make no guarantees regarding my advice above.
However, ...
If you have followed my advice, and, have regularly performed the exercising that I have suggested, and, if you feel that you are better for having implemented my advice, and, if you are therefore, inclined to offer me reward for this, .... I am a kind of socialist, so believe in the socialist principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", and, here, I apply the "honesty box principle" - so, if you are inclined, .... if you want to send to me, one Australian dollar, per week, by Paypal, to my email address bret@bretbusby.net, it would be gratefully received, and, would help pay for this web site.
Live long, and be (reasonably) fit and healthy.
I can be contacted by email at Bret
This web page was last updated on 01 August 2019
This web site was last updated on 01 August 2019