Walking
How walking can make you live longer
Taking a frequent walk is one of the most effective ways of improving your health.
Just 30 minutes of brisk walking a day can improve your physical health, increase your fitness and help manage your weight by burning off those excess calories.
If 30 minutes exercise at one time is inconvenient, shorter bouts of 10-15 minutes exercise spread over the day can be just as good.
Walking is the ideal exercise to build into your daily routine. You can take a brisk walk:
- Almost anywhere and at anytime of day.
- At convenient times and at a pace that suits you.
- For your local trips. If you are in the habit of using your car for short journeys try walking instead. It could save you money on petrol, parking, time finding a parking space, and on maintenance costs.
Burning calories
Walking for 20 minutes will use approximately 100 calories for someone weighing 62kg (9st 11lbs). And walking a mile in 20 minutes burns approximately the same amount of energy as:
- Running a mile in 10 minutes
- Swimming breast stoke for 10 minutes
- Doing aerobics for 16 minutes
- Playing football for 12 minutes
- Cycling for 16 minutes
- Weight training for 17 minutes…and walking is considerably easier to achieve
Walking is virtually injury-free and has the lowest drop-out rate of any form of exercise, making it a highly effective work-out.
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- Walking fights the ageing process so there’s no need to spend your money on cosmetics
- If you walk 1 and a half miles a day instead of driving you’ll save 130kh of carbon dioxide and other poisonous gases from being pumped into the atmosphere every year
- Children use more calories from walking to and from school than they would from two hours of PE
- Doing the recommended 30 min of exercise raises your energy and concentration level
- Walking helps relieve stress and stimulates your brain power, making you more alert
- Walking reduces the risk of coronary heart disease, heart attacks and strokes
- Pedestrians and cyclists absorb lower levels of pollutants from traffic fumes than other road users.
For more information on walks in Haringey see the list of websites in the external links section.
NB: Please be advised that some of the attached files below are large, and so may take a while to download.
If you require travel information, please visit TfL's Journey Planner on www.tfl.gov.uk/journeyplanner (see external links section below) or call London travel information on 020 7222 1234.
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walk the capital ring - walk 11.pdf  | 735K | |
| walk the capital ring - walk 12.pdf | 603K | |
| london docklands and lea valley map.pdf | 1791K | |
| highgate wood.pdf | 1433K | |
| hampstead heath.pdf | 1305K | |
| hampstead heath trail.pdf | 4929K | |
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Useful External Links
The following links are not part of the Haringey Council website. Please read our legal disclaimer before using these links
- Ramblers association (Britain's biggest walking organisation)
- Walking in London
- London’s Journey Planner
- Walk It - London walking directions and maps
Update MePage Last Updated: 29 July 2008
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