A study of over 400,000 middle-aged adults found that brisk walking is associated with slower biological aging. A major reason is that moderates the effect of oxidative stress and inflammation.
The difference between slow and fast walkers is the equivalent of 16 years in predicted lifespan.
Walking to Vitality Workshop
A six-part Interactive Workshop Online
Your posture and the way you walk make an impression on others. They speak to your physical and mental vitality.
Both have consequences for your ability to move with ease and your energy level. As a young adult, even small changes can signal a future of impaired mobility and even a compromised lifespan. Starting in mid-life, negative changes increase your likelihood of falling, joint problems, back pain, and walking vitality.
Overview of Walking to Vitality Workshop
This program is both preventative and restorative. It will rejuvenate your waking gait, posture and balance. We start with a session to regain good neuromuscular patterning and biomechanics. Then, you progress through a series to guided walks to music to make your new gait and posture your everyday gait and posture as well as improving your balance and agility.
What You Will Gain
Session One
An understanding of how posture, neuromuscular patterns, walking biomechanics, and balance change with age and the forces of modern life. Importantly, how to take preventative and corrective action.
Session Two
A rejuvenation of your optimal walking gait from a neuromuscular pattern and biomechanics perspective. Trying out the new gait, feedback, and exercises to make it permenant.
Session Three
Ways your stride and walking speed for cardiovascular fitness and more agility.
Session Four
Walking meditation for brain health and emotional vitality while making good posture and walking well your everyday way.
Session Five
Everyday ways to improve and maintain good balance. Fun activities that enhance balance as well as having a positive impact on brain health and emotional vitality.
Session Six
Monitoring your progress through self-assessment and technology.