Your Monday #2: Lie Down and Hug
Like all second-Mondays-of-the-month this year, it comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to increase your flexibility. C'mon, on your back! Now hug 'em. Both. This is a real feel-good stretch.
10 miles, 1,000 species
Walking through the rainforest in Manuel Antonio National Park is an extreme version of changing your perspective. With or without a guide, you learn to look and listen so carefully it's like you've acquired some completely new power of observation. I'm going to try this in Central Park.
Your Monday #1: Standing Room Only
Like all first-Mondays-of-the-month that don't come with New Year's hangovers, today's comes with a simple, gentle one-minute Way to improve your health. Get up! C'mon, you can read standing up. By the time you finish reading this, you're done with the first rep of today's healthy exercise.
Warm Winter Hiking: Three Magical Miles
I was thinking about the totally weird and beautiful skyline of New Mexico's Tent Rocks while I walked down the suddenly deserted Park Avenue canyon last week. The wind chill was below zero. I was the only human. A landscape I take for granted became a new world. I wonder if the Cochiti Indians notice these Tent Rocks.
The Walk That Ate Bethlehem
It always sounded like such a long Way to walk, Jerusalem to Bethlehem. I imagined vast stretches of desert. No roads. No signs. Just the star. No Google Maps to tell them the trek's just seven miles. I could do that on Christmas. You, too.
A human trapped inside the body of …
... a human. We're still human after all these years. So your body still expects to you to get up and move like your ancestors did for tens of thousands of years. If you don't, it's the age of overweight, obesity, diabetes, heart disease. Here's how to avoid that age.
The Walk That Ate Telluride
This place is so spectacularly beautiful you should eat your organic smoothies, tacos and ice cream outdoors. While you stare at the dramatically close mountains and waterfalls. if you came for the pot, you should stay for the walk.
Mild. Near the Appalachian Trail.
If three wild months and 1,000 tortured miles on the Pacific Crest Trail isn't your speed, here's a lovely walk for you. Around Benedict's Pond. About the same size as Walden Pond, but not nearly so famous. Connects with the Appalachian Trail.
The Gift of the Great Indoors.
C’mon in, the weather’s fine.
Gonna be a long, dark, cold winter for most of us. A time when the Great Outdoors just isn't, well, comfortable. So here's a Way to stay in shape and keep moving. Indoors. With all the benefits of exercise - and a lot of the benefit of being outdoors.
The Gift of the Great Outdoors. Now Greater Than Ever.
Parks are peaceful. So no surprise when a walk in the park delivers a sense of calm. But it's surprising how quickly it delivers. And how little green it takes to improve your physical and mental health. Better and Cheaper than prescription drugs. Not necessarily Slower. Click for the best deal ever on the great outdoors.