National Get Outdoors Day on Saturday offers free access to 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands. Local hikers and outdoor enthusiasts can take advantage of the day by trekking to the waterfalls at Chantry Flat above Sierra Madre or tackling a tough climb up Mt. Baldy or other high points in the Baldy area…
Hello, my name is Gregory, and I walk — a lot. In Los Angeles. Happily, I have discovered a new TV show about people like me: people who walk — in cities — all over the U.S.A. The six-part series is called City Walk, appropriately enough, and it’s excellent. Borne of a wacky West Wing…
In Brooklyn, the No. 3 subway line ends at New Lots Avenue, where passengers descend from the elevated tracks to what used to be a nasty intersection, trafficked by prostitutes, drug dealers — “You name it,” as Eddie Di Benedetto, the owner of Caterina’s Pizzeria, put it the other day. Not long ago, a coalition…
Dietitian and exercise psychologist Ashley Charlebois says walking is an easy way to improve your health. Taking 10,000 steps a day is touted as an ideal fitness goal, and a pedometer can be an inexpensive incentive to help you get moving. A recent study from Stanford University found that people who use a pedometer walk…
“Many many studies show the pent up demand for a walkable urban development,” explains Christopher Leinberger of Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. “The market is willing to pay 40 percent more upwards to three times as much for a walkable urban place.” How important is it for you to live in a walkable community? Have…
The chair can be more unhealthful than cigarettes, an Australian study suggested. (Peter Dazeley / Getty Images) ‘The chair is out to kill us,’ a Mayo doctor says. Several studies point to the health risks of too much sitting. “Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us,” says Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of…
As schools everywhere strive to improve the academic performance of their students, many have cut physical education and recess periods to leave more time for sedentary classroom instruction. A sensible new report from the Institute of Medicine, a unit of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how shortsighted this trend can be. It found that exercise can…
Walking makes us healthy and happy, and there are plenty of ways to fit it into the day: walking to work, wandering book clubs or even training for a charity trek. Where do you walk? “It felt like we were marching through a battlefield. People were gasping for breath and shouting for help. Lots…
How, exactly, does exercise make you less stressed out? Especially when exercise raises levels of the stress hormone, cortisol? We’ve all read that exercise lowers levels of anxiety, depression and stress. And that holds true even for people who are stressed out by the idea of exercise. But how exactly does it do that? Exercise attacks stress…
This, we all know: Walking is a wonderful way to exercise. It calms your mind, juices your joints, and makes you stronger so you can last longer. If all of us began our day with a 30-minute romp around the neighborhood, enjoying the fresh air, breathing in, breathing out, saying hello to the birds, air-kissing…