#WALKING

[elektroskopik]

I have lived in the US, Canada, and Germany and North Americans are fuckin lazy when it comes to walking. Even when an urban space IS very walkable, an American will whinge about having to walk a mile and how far that is to walk. I used to walk 3 KMS to work and back each day. I told that to an American and they were basically like, "Oh, that's a long walk". Like, no this is a normal distance to walk.

“America IS walkable, you’re all just lazy” my childhood home was an hour from the nearest hospital (by car)

[noseysilverfox]

🦆Golden ducks of the IV century BC.😏

🦆Золотые уточки IV века до н.э.😏

[welcomemoscowwalks]

Nature and art together.

[jokes-randomness-galore]

For every note this gets, I'll walk 3 feet.

Yes, I want lots of notes.

[adorkastock]

The wait is over - the Digitigrade/Unguligrade Leg pack is here! 🥳 Patrons at all levels got a special 20 image peek and the full 163 image Premium Pack is on Ko-fi for $15+ (Patrons get 20% off premium packs so be sure to message me there or check the preview post for the code if you need it!) Modeling and photography on this pack is done by Thire and Faol; the legs are from Digilegs. Happy drawing!! ♥

[alexmurison]

Little puffin just cruising on the wind

[thehmn]

I was talking with my housemate about how to be more physically active if you’re not used to it at all because everywhere you’re told to start a training routine where you push yourself a little every day, and while that may seem easy for some people it can be really fucking daunting if you start from zero.

As someone who comes from a very physically active family that doesn’t exercise just for the sake of exercising but do things like walk to the grocery store and bike to work, here’s my advice that has always worked for me:

Go super duper easy on yourself.

If you want to walk more start by walking for 3 or 5 minutes. The shortest possible walk you feel you’re capable of. A trip around the block or across the yard. You don’t need to sweat or get your blood pumping. Just a short stroll. The hardest part is to convince yourself to set aside 5 minutes every day to go on this short walk but nothing else about it should be hard. Do it every day and one day you’ll realize that you don’t want to go home just yet. It’s very important that you don’t think “I want to pressure myself to walk further” but rather “I haven’t spent all my walking energy yet. I have more walk in me” and only then do you lengthen the walk. I repeat, at no point should it be exhausting or difficult because even when it feels easy your body will be building muscle and stamina and it will eventually feel too easy and you’ll naturally want to crank it back up to easy again.

If you’re not used to being physically active it might not make a ton of sense when I say that you’ll have more walking energy left but trust me, you’ll get it when you get there.

I grew up with going on evening walks with my parents and passed that on to other housemates who didn’t get it at first but are now going on walks long after they moved somewhere else. Because once you get the hang of it you’ll realize how calming it is on the brain to move the body even if the body isn’t exhausted afterwards.

And it of course helps to entertain yourself especially in the beginning. My housemate started out listening to audiobooks and podcasts but eventually realized Pokémon Go was the best motivator. Whatever you feel like you want to do on your 5 minute easy stroll.

[justalittleseapanda]

[thesilicontribesman]

The Great Stone Of Fourstones, Tatham Fells, High Bentham, North Yorkshire Border

[justcatposts]

“I'm walking here! I'm walking here!” – Ratso Rizzo

(Source)

[wanderlandjournal]

Magical mornings that feel like autumn is already around the corner

[welcomemoscowwalks]

The Swallow's Nest Castle in Yalta in 1912. The Black Sea coast.

[heartnosekid]

tuiiconic.art on ig

[vintagecamping]

Autumn's majesty.

New England

1958

[dk-thrive]

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. Even if one were to walk for one's health and it were constantly one station ahead—I would still say: Walk! Besides, it is also apparent that in walking one constantly gets as close to well-being as possible, even if one does not quite reach it but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Health and salvation can be found only in motion. If anyone denies that motion exists, I do as Diogenes did, I walk. If anyone denies that health resides in motion, then I walk away from all morbid objections. Thus, if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.

— Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (Reitzel Publishers, 1843) (via Dylan O'Sullivan)