WALKING CLUB

Form a club if you have none in your area

I have already discussed about the advantages of walking with someone or in a group. Any sports or exercise carried out in an organized manner is always better. Today I will discuss about how to form a walking club in your area. It is said if there anything worth doing is worth doing actively. Let you and your friends be the first to set up a walking club in your area. You will be surprised to see how many walkers will thank you for your effort.

Let’s do it systematically

You want to build up friendship among your co-walkers, give an identity, enhance security increase motivation for walking and to spread awareness of walking.

Find out if there is already a walking club in your area, is it serving its purposes.

Discuss with your friends, let the news gather momentum. Take out a flyer/handout informing first meeting of the club. Paste or pin the information in the path/ways which walkers generally prefer.

The club is for walking, walks related activity and should concentrate on that core activity.

Form a committee in the first meeting and assign responsibilies on members. Undertake a membership drive. Plan for the next sitting in the first meeting. Ask everybody to bring in a friend of his/her for the next meeting.

Start club events right away. Involve members. Make the events interesting. Like weekend walk together, walk in the midst of nature, competitive walking, charity walk etc.

Share information, track your walking progress together. Fix up walking routes, make a list of timings (which group will walk when and where).

Put emphasis on unifying factors like common T-shirt, club logo, club bulletin, bank account, regular meeting and special activities etc.

Soon you will find out how members are coming up with new suggestions and are actively involved in the club. It is a question of who will bell the cat? once you start the ball rolling the ball generally gathers momentum.

You can even seek affiliation of your walking club with national level club later on. Any worthy initiation is always humble.

Initiate and encourage walking and continue it!!

THINK FOR A WHILE

Wishes for a Happy New Year with a fitter body and mind. I made some new year resolutions for the next year with the following pwrspectives in mind.

We are very busy in today’s world. We have too many things to attend in too short time. Result we ignore many vital and important thing concerning us, most important of them all is our health. We lead a sedentary life. We do not have any energy left after we reach home from our work to do any physical exercises. We sit down in front of TV in a comfortable sofa with a drink in hand till dinner time. We eat junk food to save time or they are cheap and readily available. After a very short time we are diseased and our health is completely wrecked. Then only we think where we went wrong.

Let us confess, we were wrong in many ways. We probably can not undo all mistakes in one go. Yes, there are many places where we can still correct the mistakes. Earlier the corrective steps, earlier we recover.

Health is wealth, most of us do not take this maxim by heart. Otherwise how can we ignore/abuse our health so much? We can regain our wealth if we try again, but probably we can not restore our health to original condition even if we try too hard. But we can come back close to the original condition if we take timely actions. Exercises with good food intake are the right direction for our health.

So why wait till our health is completely gone, and we are diseased. Start today, put on your sneaker and some loose clothes and go out of your home. You will find yourself walking in no time, as walking comes naturally to us and from deep inside our system, we enjoy walking. Once you enjoy walking, you will automatically buy proper walking shoes and clothes.

If ignorance is virtue then negligence is sin.

Let start walking today.