Run— Don’t Walk

O.K.- the title of this post is a bit misleading. Well… maybe… you decide.

What I have learned to do…. and what has benefited me greatly in my sucess is simply running. Its not easy, but its cheap. Pretty much anyone can do it. Well, pretty much anyone when they build up to it.

I know… I go on and on about running. And I went through a strenuous “boot camp” when I was losing my weight, but the fact of the matter is…. as hard as it is for me to admit…. YOU CAN DO THIS WITHOUT RUNNING. Really. Just WALK on the treadmill. Just walk the dog. Just walk around the block. Just walk down the road… you get the idea.

Mississippi has a great advertising campaign that touts the benefits of walking. My trainer, Paul Lacoste, talks about how walking is only for Haley Barbour because he is the star of the show. Well, I think he is on to something. Haley that is.

Now, I bet Paul will have a fit when he sees this- but a new study from the Harvard School of Public health suggests that “as long as you expend equal amounts of energy” then it doesn’t really make any difference if you walk or run. So, what does that mean. Well, in other words, someone that spends 30 minutes walking is reaping the same benefits as someone that runs for about 15 minutes—- from a disease fighting/cardiovascular fitness standpoint.

O.K.—- bottom line. It doesn’t REALLY matter if you are moving fast or moving kinda fast/slow in-between sorta…. as long as you are moving. GET MOVING!

Me- how do I feel? Well, I am WAY too busy to spend all day doing this. And I wanna get thin—– AT FULL SPEED!

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