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Old 28-08-2017, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Lucky 1
I walk...fast and hard about 4 or 5 times a week for about 45 minutes to an hour and love it!

I don't like to run because of the pounding on my knees, ankles and hip joints...but boy do I love to walk!

I hunt the mountains of New Mexico and Colorado every fall for elk and the couple of months leading up to elk season I'll start doing my walks with a loaded back pack to simulate the load I carry while hunting.

It's a great aerobic workout!

This is what we do when the air quality is good enough (except for the hunting part). Most summers there are days or weeks at a time when it's too smoky from forest fires, like it's been this month. Sometimes it clears up enough by late afternoon when it starts to cool off that we can get in a power walk. The person I'm with is getting older and has never had great knees or lungs so we can't really run, so the power walks and hikes work really well for us, especially since she lives at the top of a steep hill. That final stretch is brutal. But it's a good workout.
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