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100 days to walk or running 30 minutes

Published on April 3, 2014 in Corsa, Generale and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

With the beginning of spring, longer and warmer days, many people have good intentions to lose weight and start to do  movement. After this first positive moment many of them stop because they are held back from their commitments and duties that do not allow to go to the gym to follow a course, for financial problems, the mental laziness of not being accustomed to thinking of themselves as people physically active and many other justifications that everyone created to continue to do nothing. To these people I want to indicate the initiative to run or walk at least half an hour every day for one hundred days.
It’s evident that for the runners it’s also an inner journey to rediscover the pleasure to walk/run, and this challenge tests not so much the ability to train as to organize better the daily life (“I’ll make walking/running at least half an hour every day for a hundred days consecutive ? “), in fact, the unknown are the life events of every days, and the question changes to” I’ll manage to find time to walk/ run at least half an hour every day” between family , school, work , shopping , lunch, dinner and other daily tasks .

To participate and subscribe go to www.epodismo.com/100 Participation is free .

You can subscribe to:

  • The 100 days of Italy – To celebrate the anniversary of the Liberation (end of 2° world war) walking/running. From 25 April to 2 August 2014.
  • The 100 days of August – Walking/running during the summer holidays. From May 7 to 14 August 2014.

Are you ready to meet this challenge with yourself ?

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Promote walking: an act of social responsibility for all

Published on February 6, 2014 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Walking is one of the primary human activities. Today it is possible to live seated passing from one seat to another. Therefore sports organizations and public institutions should promote a joint project to promote walking: it would be innovative and much needed to safeguard the welfare of the citizens.

Several psychosocial aspects involved in the success of this idea ; concern the substance of the perception that people have of:

  • how valuable and rewarding to walk in their city ,
  • which motivation the walk satisfies
  • as their overall well-being comes out strengthened.

These three aspects should reach to create a unique integrated individual model, which it allows to easily switch from the intention of walking (I would like to do) the action (I’m doing).

Being aware of these three aspects and their interaction becomes, therefore, necessary for the success of this walk project. We know that we appreciate the walk into town if:

  • we see others walk going to work,
  • there are green, safe and attractive spaces,
  • the streets are safe ,
  • pedestrian accidents are rare,
  • there are schools where you walk ,
  • the traffic is reduced.

In relation to the individual motivations, the people are oriented to perform an activity that:

  • reduces daily stress and improve mood,
  • increases a good relationship with the body,
  • takes place outdoors,
  • can be done with friends,
  • respects the individual rhythms and is moderately intense,
  • both easy and affordable.

The third aspect of this approach concerns the promotion of the welfare. This result derives from the interaction between the two aspects described and which relate to the criteria of walkability and motivation . When they meet the individual shows a higher level of personal satisfaction, which provides a better sense of well-being .

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Running is a democratic activity for the mind

Published on January 9, 2014 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Running is a democratic activity for the mind. We can run slow or fast, for a short time or a long time, we can do it alone or with friends, we can run in the outdoors or on the track, we can alternate running with walking, we can start to run just out home or going to the gym, we  can vary at will the routes and places to run, wherever we are we can go for a run. No other sport is so rich in alternatives to be practiced. It’s democratic because every time we run we are free to choose what to do. For these reasons running stimulate the individual consciousness, which is the art of knowing what we want to do and how. Today I want to run flat on the road, tomorrow in a park and the day after on the track, each of these situations generate different sensations and different types of stride. We must learn to listen, to feel the body sensations, the breath, the heart and the thoughts connected to these sensations. Running mostly means learning to choose which is the most appropriate way for us and especially it means to learn to recognize when it’s time to stop and how to alternate days of intense training with the ones in which we recover. It’s not easy and for this reason it’s useful to follow a training program, simple and suitable for us, but at the same time we must not give up on developing the ability to listen, especially to understand which are the feelings that we should not have (for example, what is that the heart rate must not exceed and that to have in most of the times ). Running is also give a rule, the main one is to have as an objective to continue to run even in a year and do not stop in a month because it was poorly made. An example, to understand how important it’s to follow a rule. If a sedentary person or who does’not practice since many years starts to do 10 minutes of activity 3 times a week, alternating 1 minute of walking and 1 minutes of running  if would increase its commitment by 1 minute per week ( then the second would be 11 minutes x 3 times and so on). In a year he/she would be able to run for 1 hour three times a week. This is a gradual approach that anyone who does not have specific health or overweight problems could be able to maintain.

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Levison Wood starts 4,250 mile trek of the Nile

Published on November 23, 2013 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

 OnNovember 25th Brit Levison Wood sets off in his attempt to become the first person to walk the full length of the River Nile, from source to sea.  Tackling mountains in Rwanda, to tropical rainforest in Uganda, Swamps (the world’s biggest) in South to Sudan to savannah, bushland and the Sahara desert, political conflict, wildlife and disease, he aims to walk the 4,250 miles in 12 months. His route will take him through 7 African countries (Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, The Sudan, and Egypt.) The journey starts on December 1st in Rwanda. “Its been a real challenge sorting the funding but its now all happening at the 11th hour but can’t complain, at least I’m off!” says Levison to ExplorersWeb. (By Correne Coetzer)

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Walk and find calmness

Published on September 1, 2013 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Today, September 1 marks somehow the end of summer and the beginning of a new period of activity. For many of us want to say to continue to have a sedentary lifestyle  spent in car or public transport and activities where you do not spend a bit of physical energy. We all know  that it’s unhealthy but most of us (in Italy) continue to live in this way by referring to an hypothetical tomorrow all forms of active life because we do not have the time today. At least in Italy there are not solutions shortly to this lifestyle: bike lanes are almost non-existent as well as spaces where walking sure not to be invested, many people take the car for less than one kilometer and young people have no incentive to walking, in many cities public transport  are infrequent and not on time and their use is not promoted by municipalities, at school  we have 2 hours per week of physical activity from elementary to high school,  without to mention the eating habits that lead to having more and more children overweight as 30% of adults. Nevertheless, we cannot just complain because it’s our life and we will not have a second to live. So we have to use our motivation and begin to live in a better way.

To do this we can start by two simple and inexpensive activities: walking 30 minutes every day and spend 15 minutes a day to develop thoughts pleasant and positive, (the one that goes by the saying – indulge in thoughts of peace and calmness -). Before to say that is good for nothing  and come back to our role as a victim of the times, let a little time to try, we will always be able to return to the old habits.

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“Run, Don’t Walk.” “Don’t Run, Walk.”

Published on April 23, 2013 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .
If you’re a runner, you might have noticed this surprising headline from the April 5 edition of the Guardian: “Brisk walk healthier than running—scientists.” Or maybe you saw this one, which ran in Health magazine the very same day: “Want to lose weight? Then run, don’t walk: Study.”
Dueling research from rival academic camps? Not exactly. Both articles described the work of a herpetologist-turned-statistician at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory named Paul T. Williams, who, this month, achieved a feat that’s exceedingly rare in mainstream science: He used exactly the same dataset to publish two opposing findings.

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Run or walk 30 minutes every day for 100 days

Published on February 14, 2013 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

It start February 15, a new challenge proposed by ePODISMO, Italian monthly magazine specialized in running,  walking, marathon, and track and field.

This challenge to the 100 days  to Hundred, which will take participants until May 25, 2013, the day of departure of the “Passatore 100km “, the ultramarathon most beautiful of the world, it starts every year from Florence and running through the Apennines, it finishes at Faenza, Romagna.

Waiting the ultramarathon the challenge is to run or walk for 100 days at least half an hour every day.

The lower limit of thirty minutes was chosen because it is the time it takes for our body to have the benefits from this daily workout. Even behind the choice of 100 days there is a rational explanation: doing the same activity for 21 days creates a habit. This consolidates around 45 days, and after 90 days the body considers now a daily routine that is done almost without thinking, just like waking up in the morning and brush your teeth.

Participation is free. All those who finish the challenge will be able to download a certificate of merit in memory of the initiative.

Who wants to be part of this group can find all the details at www.epodismo.com/100

 

 

 

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Walking and cycling must become the norm

Published on December 11, 2012 in Generale. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

“Walking and cycling should become the norm for short journeys rather than driving a car, the government’s health advisory body has recommended in an attempt to tackle a national epidemic of inactivity and obesity which now causes as much harm as smoking.

In strongly-worded advice, which places significant pressure on the government to increase the extent of safe walking and cycling routes, theNational Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) urges local authorities, health bodies, workplaces and schools to do all they can to assist people in active travel.

The report notes that almost two-thirds of men and nearly three-quarters of women in England are not sufficiently active to maintain their health, with the results little better for children.

This amounts to a significant public health problem to which increased walking and cycling is a key solution, said Dr Harry Rutter, an adviser to the Department of Health-funded National Obesity Observatory, who led the Nice study.

“Only a minority of people in England get enough physical activity to improve their health,” he said. “This creates a huge and often invisible burden of illness and reduced quality of life, but most people seem to be unaware of the scale of that burden. Across the population, lack of physical activity causes roughly the same level of ill-health as smoking does.

“We all face barriers in changing our lifestyles and many of us feel we don’t have the time or the inclination to add regular physical activity into our lives. But walking and cycling – to work, to school, to the shops or elsewhere – can make a huge difference. It’s an opportunity to make these activities part of normal routine daily behaviour.”

The 126-page report lays down recommendations for many public and private institutions, which have no statutory force but carry some influence given Nice’s position. They also coincide with the advent next April of the NHS’s health and wellbeing boards, where local health chiefs will collaborate to improve community health.

It urges local authorities to devise a coherent, long-term plan for boosting active travel to be at the centre of every policy, avoiding the piecemeal efforts exemplified by the cursory and suddenly-vanishing bike lanes familiar to most UK cyclists. Schools are being advised to provide secure bike parking and introduce “walking buses” where pupils walk to and from school in a supervised group, with employers similarly guided on helping staff ditch their cars.

The report’s authors say they are aware of the ambition of their plan, with the average Briton now walking or cycling 80 miles a year less now than they did a decade ago and the percentage of journeys made by bike remaining at about 2%, against 26% for the Netherlands and 19% in Denmark.”

(article written by Peter Walker, The Guardian)

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What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

Published on December 6, 2012 in Generale and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUaInS6HIGo

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Camminare

Published on August 5, 2011 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Se il movimento è vita, camminare è la principale attività vitale che dobbiamo compiere. Quanto mai necessaria oggi che potremmo vivere seduti, passando dal letto, all’auto e all’ufficio e viceversa. Camminare  è un’attività a costo zero e chiunque a qualsiasi età in qualsiasi luogo la può fare. L’estate è un buon momento per cominciare a camminare, anche per chi resta in città. Camminare, facendo qualche respiro profondo, aiuta a migliorare l’umore e a siluppare una percezione di se stessi migliore. Perchè non farlo?

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