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Drinking water for folks on Walking Holidays

March 1, 2011 By Almis Simans Leave a Comment

Drinking water on Walking Holidays. So let’s have a look at your walking day. You’ve just had a superb English breakfast at a cosy little UK B&B. The walkers’ manual suggests, “Caffeine: Avoid caffeinated beverages before your walk, they cause you to lose fluid, making you thirstier as well as making you take inconvenient stops […]

Filed Under: Walking Health and Fitness Tagged With: drinking water, Walking, water filter, water treatment

Weight Loss and Walking

February 21, 2011 By Almis Simans Leave a Comment

Weight Loss and Walking: Weight loss must be one of the most popular reasons for people to take up the wonderful activity of walking. The thought of feeling the weight disappear as you make your way over hill and dale along, for example – the Coast to Coast Walk, is very appealing. And in most […]

Filed Under: Walking Health and Fitness Tagged With: health, metabolism, Walking, walking for health, weight, weight loss

Italian water guzzler

April 17, 2009 By Almis Simans Leave a Comment

How much water do you need on a walk? It’s really good to know. I’ve seen a lot of articles and guidebooks say “take enough water for the walk”, but how much is enough? We were in Siena, Italy by good fortune on the day of the Palio and planned to spend the day enjoying […]

Filed Under: Walking Health and Fitness Tagged With: Italy, Palio, Siena, water, water bottles

Lose weight? – not necessarily.

April 8, 2009 By Almis Simans Leave a Comment

Some of us, including me, always think that we will lose weight if we walk. In general this is true. However, if our food intake increases when we go on multiday walks, then it’s not a given. Like the erosion of the chalk cliffs at Burling Gap, weight loss can take time; you need exercise […]

Filed Under: Walking Health and Fitness Tagged With: Burling Gap, pedometer, weight loss

Are cakes and cider OK for walkers?

February 16, 2009 By Almis Simans Leave a Comment

This is a good question for any of us over 30, I’ll get back to that later in the post. But the truth is most of us are interested in our level of health, or at least well-being. So how can walking help? There are so many positives about walking, it’s a wonder we got […]

Filed Under: Featured, Walking Health and Fitness Tagged With: alcohol, cakes, cider, food, Walking, walking health

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