WAYS TO MAKE WALKS BETTER

[post_bitch]

WAYS TO MAKE WALKING EVEN BETTER

1. Remember that you don’t have to walk every day. Try walking and driving on alternate days - but don’t be surprised if you find the advantages are great enough or you are enjoying it so much that you want to do it more regularly.

2. Vary your route. Making the walk more interesting makes it seem shorter.

3. If you can’t vary your route, vary your entertainment. Get an iPod. It makes walking even more of a pleasure - and you don’t have to be listening to music all the time. Download podcasts of your favourite radio programmes, or invest some of the money you have saved by buying yourself some talking books.

4. See your walk as quality time or escapism, and enjoy the fact that you aren’t subjected to road rage, boy racers cutting you up, feeling guilty about not getting enough exercise, and helping to ruin the environment. Press the button on that crossing and make the suckers wait!

5. Think. See your walk to work as a chance to give some serious thought to work matters. You’ll be amazed how much better you can think with the clear head you get from breathing fresh air. You may even be able to use the time to make necessary phone calls. Save the walk home for thinking about other aspects of your life and making decisions.

6. Talk to people. You never get a chance to say ‘Good morning’ to fellow drivers, but fellow walkers appreciate it - and so will you. After all, you’re in this together! And you’ll get to speak to the neighbours properly too.

7. Sing or hum to yourself. Choosing songs with a fast tempo will make you walk faster, therefore increasing the benefit of the exercise and getting you there even quicker. Don’t do it too loudly, though.

8. Set yourself ‘no-go’ areas for driving. Get a map and mark a circle at least a mile around home - and challenge yourself never to drive to any destinations inside the circle.

9. Keep your eyes open. At walking pace you have more time to notice and enjoy what’s around you. Stop to smell the flowers!

10. Treat yourself to some comfortable shoes. Now you can afford them and your feet deserve them!

11. Remember: it’s free. You’re getting something for nothing, and doesn’t that make you feel good?

12. Walk because you can. Some people’s motivation for walking is having friends and relations who are unable to walk - because of illlness, infirmity, accident or age. Keep in mind somebody you know who would love to be able to walk too. Make hay while the sun shines and think yourself lucky.

13. Enjoy the cold. No, really - there is something strangely gratifying about wrapping up warm against the cold and beating the winter. And the more you are out, the less likely you are to get a cold.

14. Try walking with somebody else - especially close friends and relatives. It’s a great way to spend quality time with them without irritating distractions.

15. Feel the rhythm! Dancers and musicians often walk because they say it helps their sense of rhythm. As one dancer put it: “Walking is the metronone of my life.”

16. Take a shorter lunch break. You’ve already had your ration of fresh air, so you don’t need so much time to recoup in the middle of the day. You may end up getting home earlier than if you had driven.

17. Don’t feel guilty about driving once in a while. If the weather’s especially bad or you really aren’t in the mood, you’ve every right to take the driving option - as long as you don’t fall back into bad habits.

[DirtyHarry]

A manageable workload is the best way to making walks better.
The inhuman scum we slave for, have it spectacularly wrong......it's not more outdoor work that should be used to ensure that postal workers work all their contracted hours, it's indoor work.
And if the inhuman scum cannot provide more indoor work for us to do, then tough titty.

[Straight4ward]

Ways to make your walk better

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Works for me.

[DGP1]

Ways to make your walk better

Walk improvement.jpg

Works for me.

I wonder if the US is selling any Warthogs? I'd like to get one, just for the daily commute to work

[Stormproof]

[fishtank]

I wonder if the US is selling any Warthogs? I'd like to get one, just for the daily commute to work

Start a rumour that your walk contains oil reserves and requires a regime change.
The Americans will do it for you...just be careful of "friendly fire".

[DGP1]

I wonder if the US is selling any Warthogs? I'd like to get one, just for the daily commute to work

Start a rumour that your walk contains oil reserves and requires a regime change.
The Americans will do it for you...just be careful of "friendly fire".

I'm saving that oil for a rainy day

[krussel]

WAYS TO MAKE WALKING EVEN BETTER

1. Remember that you don’t have to walk every day. Try walking and driving on alternate days - but don’t be surprised if you find the advantages are great enough or you are enjoying it so much that you want to do it more regularly.

etc etc etc etc

This appears to be aimed squarely at office type workers who perhaps don’t get enough exercise and drive everywhere.

To be honest once I have parked my car and cycled ¾ mile into work, walked 11miles pushing a trolley, cycled ¾ back to my car, the last thing I want to do is ditch it and walk the 6 miles home.

[POSTMAN]

[anTi]

What a good thread, and some very funny posts!

That segway (sp) ...Like that!!