According to the World Health Organisation: ‘A walker loses weight, lowers cholesterol, reduces conditions associated with hypertension, slows aging and the decline of aerobic capacity, increases strength, flexibility and balance, strengthens bones and increases stamina‘.

The founding father of the medical profession, Hippocrates, said that walking is the best medicine. Now, 25OO years later, fitness walking is a ‘best exercise’ recommended in more than 4O medical studies by exercise physiologists, biomechanical experts, cardiologists, chest experts, obesity experts and stress experts.

Walking is a natural, healthy expression of the human body. Your body is built for walking – it’s the ultimate exercise machine. Walking helps you restore rhythm and balance to your life and it makes you fit, healthy and whole. A low-intensity, low-impact exercise, fitness walking will give you more energy and vitality than you’ve ever had. It’s easy and it works. No matter at what level of fitness you begin, walking wins every time.

So at what point does ambling, strolling or sauntering become fitness walking? When you walk at a brisk enough pace to give you aerobic benefits, which for most people is a pace of around 3.5 to 4 mph.