Walking
Health benefits of walking
Walking is a great way to improve the general health of the whole family. Brisk walking—when you breathe a little more quickly, feel a little warmer and have a slightly faster heartbeat—is an ideal moderate-intensity activity. It’s one of the easiest ways for children to do the recommended daily sixty minutes of physical activity. These sixty active minutes per day will help burn off energy and prevent excess fat being stored in the body. Walking also helps young muscles and bones grow properly.
For the adults in the family the recommendation is to be active for thirty minutes five times a week. Walking can really help fulfil this in a cheap, easy and enjoyable way.
Walk4Life
The Walk4Life website has a search facility to find walks by postcode or placename, as well as tools to enable you to create walks, track progress and even measure your fitness.
Change4Life has also produced these Walk4Life leaflets:
FIT Cornwall Pedometer Challenge
We hope that lots of schools and families will enter our FIT Pedometer Challenge. Read more about the FIT Pedometer Challenge.
Living Streets
Living Streets aims to create safe, attractive streets where people will enjoy walking. Resources include a toolkit for healthy environments and information about how to encourage more people to walk locally.
Walk England
Walk England promotes walking as a way to be healthy, travel and relax - by bringing together people who want to walk more, with those health, transport, environment, urban realm, education and sports and recreation professionals responsible for supporting their choice.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust
See Cornwall Wildlife Trust's events page for family walks and other activities locally.
