Winter Walk Day

Today is Winter Walk Day in Alberta and other provinces across Canada.

We want to encourage everyone to get outside and go for a walk for 15 minutes today.

Bundle up and embrace the winter!

This event is to remind people that just because it is snowy or chilly, doesn't mean you have to stay inside on your couch!

I will be at a school facilitating a walk with all the students, as well as another fitness activity and we will be making yogurt parfaits! 

Will you walk today?

This Christmas

After dinner,  go for a walk with the family before you have dessert.

Go out and look at the lights, maybe take a toboggan out with you

Not only will it be great quality time... you will be getting your daily exercise!

Walk

If you just do one thing for yourself today - Walk.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that walking six to nine miles per week can protect your brain and improve your memory. According to the researchers, the reason we start to get a bit more foggy-headed as we age is because our brains start shrinking. The study discovered that older people who had kept active had maintained more brain mass--reducing their risk of memory loss by half.

Read More http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2010/10/if-you-only-do-one-healthy-thi-1.html#ixzz1h0eJjV6s

Thinking about exercising?

Are you sitting there thinking "I should exercise"

-I will go to the gym tomorrow

-on monday I am going to start running again

-my New Years resolution will be to go to the gym 3 times a week

-as soon as the holidays are over I will start exercising again

well STOP

stop putting off your exercise and start TODAY

change those thoughts to things like

-Lets got for a walk after dinner

-I am going to the gym today after work

-Im going to hot yoga this morning

-Instead of tv, Im going to run - right now