walking – StrongFast Fitness https://strongfastfitness.com Buffalo NY Personal Training Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:36:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.8 98122217 Anatomy of a “Wike” https://strongfastfitness.com/wp/2016/09/anatomy-of-a-wike/ Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:36:30 +0000 https://strongfastfitness.com/?p=2469 Technically, all hiking is walking but not all walking is hiking. It's like the relationship between fruit and apples: all apples are fruit but not all fruits are apples. (Yeah, just like that.) Hiking is a specialized form of walking. (Walking is itself a specialized form of something--ambulation?--with other specializations … Continue reading

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]]> 2469 6 MORE Reasons To Walk https://strongfastfitness.com/wp/2016/08/6-more-reasons-to-walk/ Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:32:03 +0000 https://strongfastfitness.com/?p=2418 Walking gets lots of attention as a form of exercise, and for good reason. It doesn’t require any special equipment and you can do it most anywhere. There has been lots of research into the health benefits of walking for exercise. And lots of people are out there walking for … Continue reading

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]]> 2418 Eating at McDonald’s https://strongfastfitness.com/wp/2015/10/eating-at-mcdonalds/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:27:39 +0000 http://strongfastfitness.com/?p=2027 There's a video making the rounds again lately (despite being circa 2013-14) about an Iowa science teacher who used himself for an "experiment" with his class to eat exclusively at McDonald's. However, there were caveats, and the results surprise some people. As usual there's more to the story. The video … Continue reading

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]]> 2027 How Useful is Counting Steps? https://strongfastfitness.com/wp/2015/10/how-useful-is-counting-steps/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 01:58:04 +0000 http://strongfastfitness.com/?p=2011 Back in hilly Pacifica again, and walking. This time, I fired up a pedometer app on my iPod Touch and did some step counting. (6,000 for a morning stroll.) Counting steps is all the rage these days, but this little jaunt got me thinking. And not just about "step by … Continue reading

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]]> 2011 Walking for Fitness? https://strongfastfitness.com/wp/2015/06/walking-for-fitness/ Thu, 25 Jun 2015 02:05:06 +0000 http://strongfastfitness.com/?p=1934 I've been thinking about this one for a while now, but just saw this: So You Want to Start Fitness Walking? Now it's "fitness walking"? Whatever happened to "power walking"? Ah well, no matter. The question for this post: is walking really a fitness activity? To answer this question, we … Continue reading

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