Sentence examples for take up walking from inspiring English sources

Give away your bikes and take up walking.

Take up walking or jogging.

Take up walking, running, biking, swimming, and hiking to get cardio exercise.

And it's true that for many people, future health benefits may just be too abstract and speculative to overcome inertia and take up walking, running, swimming, cycling or working out in the gym.

And, since obesity rates track car use, more people will take up walking and cycling, and fitter people are less depressed and more productive (or so they tell us).A decline in miles driven per person in the developed world does not spell doom for carmakers.

In a report submitted to transport minister Derek Mackay, the charity Road Share argued that introducing "presumed liability" for motorists could save lives, encourage safer driving habits and persuade more people to take up walking or cycling as their primary means of transportation.

Eighteen months ago I took up walking, knowing 10,000 steps per day halves cardiac risk for someone my age with my profile of risk.

Abbott's addiction to public exercise for physical and mental health is legendary and Kevin Rudd has taken up walking with a John Howard-like zeal.

Although there's no firm data on how many women in the U.S. have taken up walking over the past year, fitness experts say that the current financial crisis will likely only fuel America's walking craze.

The then Leader of the House of Commons, John Biffen, recounted how Dormand would "swathe himself in luminous strips" before setting off, and although he abandoned the bicycle in 1987, deterred by London's heavy traffic, he took up walking instead.

The participants were split into two groups over the course of two years, one doing simple stretching exercises and taking a health course, while the other group took up walking 150 minutes per week and doing strength and balance training.