Walk Your Way to Health in Hillsborough

Walk Your Way to health

Walking helps control weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels. A brisk walk can burn up to 100 calories per mile or 300 calories per hour. Walking also improves cardiovascular fitness. As an aerobic exercise, walking gets the heart beating faster to transport oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the muscles. The heart and lungs grow more efficient with a regular walking regimen, reducing blood pressure and the resting heart rate. Walking is even a central element of medical rehabilitation.

Recovery from many ailments, including heart attack, is facilitated by a regular walking regimen. In addition, walking creates an overall feeling of well-being, and can relieve depression, anxiety, and stress by producing endorphins, the body's natural tranquilizer. A brisk walk will relax you and also stimulate your thinking.

Walking can help you:

• Strengthen your heart and lungs, and improve circulation
• Prevent heart attacks and strokes
• Reduce obesity and high blood pressure
• Boost your metabolic rate
• Improve muscle tone in your legs and abdomen
• Reduce stress and tension
• Reduce arthritis pain; stop bone tissue decay

There are many great areas to walk and explore right here in Hillsborough. Duke Farms is located across the street from our Hillsborough podiatry office and offers over 1000 acres of untouched beauty. It's mostly paved trails allows you to explore with the whole family. It is easily navigated with wheelchairs and strollers.

Sourland Mountain Preserve, located in Hillborough, is over 4000 acres and best known for it's exquisite bird nests. The mountain is best explored by walking, biking and horseback. Somerset County parks hosts many nature and music fests at the preserve, as well.

The towpath of the Delaware River is a great 70 mile walk. The Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park is a great place to visit. You can walk or ride horseback the towpath that goes from Trenton to new Brunswick. There are spots to stop and rent canoes or kayaks. The views are spectacular.

Choose and site and some friend and get started on your walk. As fall begins to creep up on us, the sights of Somerset County will be spectacular!