Your Monday #42: No-Rope Jump-Rope
A 3-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to balance yourself and stay on your feet - while you strengthen all your leg muscles. Pretty great for just three minutes.
The Walk That Ate Madrid
A half-day Walk in one of the great walking cities of Europe. A few more hours to Eat great stuff in one of the world's great food capitals. Eleven miles. Eighteen kilometers. More than 1,000 calories burned. What a Way to sightsee.
Your Monday #40: Flying like Superman
Let's start the week loose. Comfortable. Flexible. Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Today's Way'll relax and stretch your back and abdominal muscles. Make them feel and function better.
The Walk That Ate Denver
A wonderful and weird Walk. Wonderful because it's a great walking and eating city. Weird because it's the Mile High City, so you may feel like you're taking a high elevation hike when you're strolling the sidewalks with direct views of the Rocky Mountains.
Your Monday #39: Shoulder Stretch. Yes!
Like all first-Mondays-of-the-month, today comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. C'mon, by the time you finish reading this Way, you'll probably finish today's healthy exercise.
Glaciers: Get ’em while they’re frozen
If you're in shape to hike around Glacier National Park, do it while the glaciers are still there. If you're not - get in shape. Before 2020, when the massive glaciers will disappear, completely. Right now, click and gasp.
Your Monday #38: Crunch Time
Good news: all you need is frequent exercise to maintain muscle strength and mass. At any age. Like all fourth-Mondays-of-the-month this year, today comes with a simple, one-minute Way to increase your strength. This month: your core muscles, especially your abs.
Time and Space in Los Angeles
Backbone Trail up to Castro Peak. Back down to the Malibu beaches. Walk 15 miles. Burn 1,800 calories - Way more than you (should) eat at Coogie's and Duke's.
Your Monday #37: Lift Off. 2 minutes.
A 2-minute exercise to strengthen the muscles you use to balance yourself and stay on your feet - while you stretch and strengthen your calf muscles. Pretty great for just two minutes.
Monument Mountain. Above Devil’s Pulpit.
All around the Northern Hemisphere, this is a wonderful, colorful time for hiking and walking. You should do some. Like Monument Mountain. A moderate 3-mile walk in the woods to views across tens of miles of western Massachusetts hills and valleys turning more than fifty shades of red, orange and yellow.