Walking to Improve Your Health and Back Pain
It is also beneficial for SAD sufferers who feel low and lathargic due to the lack of sunlight in the winter months.
Walking for life was set up in 2000 and now has over 600 local schemes with 66,000 regular walkers nationwide. To find the health walk schemes closest to you, just enter your postcode or place name in the search box on the site or see what's on offer in your part of the country by clicking on your local region on the map.
You'll then find all the information you need to either join the group for one of their regular walks or contact your local scheme coordinator to find out more.
Walk4Life is another great site with lots of information. The Walk4Life website is 6 years old and although not the prettiest of sites they think it is still a really useful tool to use to plan a walk .
Funding for the website from the Department of Health ended 4 years ago. Since then Walk Unlimited have been self-financing the project; sadly, they can't afford to do this forever. In addition to hosting and maintaining the site they pay Ordnance Survey for every map view. With over 50,000 visits a month the running costs are high.
They have introduced a subscription fee of £5.00 for 12 months. The £5 a year gives you unlimited access to all Ordnance Survey maps at the very useful zoom levels of 25K and 50K. Using these base maps you can create and save your own walks by plotting the line of the route.
You can view 1000’s of other walk routes on OS maps created by other members of the site and you can also log and track your walking activity or create your own walking group with its own administration area and create walking challenges.
