Heard of it? In case you missed this Tik Tok phenomena during the pandemic, influencer Mia Lind, started the 4-mile walking trend. Essentially, she encouraged participants to focus on the following during a 4-mile walk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
>Specific things you are grateful for<\/p>\n\n\n\n
>Goals & dreams (what are your next action steps?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
>How hot you are (body positivity!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I really liked the concept encouraging a brisk pace (around a 15-minute-ish mile). if you are new to exercising, start with 2 miles at a 20 minute pace and work up to 4 miles a day at faster pace. While walking, try some hills and\/or add ight weights and pump your arms. Speed up or take longer strides for 30 steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once you’ve given thanks and reviewed your hopes and dreams, pick an inspiring playlist or podcast. Plan your next steps and co-create your life story. What a great idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So….why walk? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walking is a wonderful way to exercise<\/strong> and can be done most anywhere<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Walking strengthens bones & muscles, increases mobility and has many of the same benefits of running like lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, and the effects of diabetes<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Walking slows the biological aging process<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Walking aids sugar and glucose metabolism and reduces body fat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, then there are the mental health benefits of reducing stress and anxiety, while improving self confidence and body image.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So how about getting your “hot girl” (or guy) walk on today? Today IS some day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Carpe diem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heard of it? In case you missed this Tik Tok phenomena during the pandemic, influencer Mia Lind, started the 4-mile walking trend. Essentially, she encouraged participants to focus on the following during a 4-mile walk: >Specific things you are grateful for >Goals & dreams (what are your next action steps?) >How hot you are (body …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}