Walking Resources

Walking and Healthy Eating

• Eating Less - How to Walk for Weight Loss article from about Health.  

Walking and Activity Articles

• 15 of the best fitness apps to download for 2015 – Evening Standard: 

• How to Use a Pedometer to Get 10,000 Steps - Fitness Magazine.com 

• Fitness 'rubs off on your partner' - BBC Online 

• Is walking women's best heart medicine? - Boots Web MD 

• Sofa to 5k - Boots Web MD 

• Unusual activities to get you moving - BBC Online

Walking Apps

Either click on the links below or search for the app in the app store for your device:

• Charity Miles - Earn money for charity when you walk, run, or bike. IOS and Android 

• Health – IOS Built-in App. On IOS 8

• iFootpath - Online Walking Guides and Directions for the UK. IOS and Android.  

• Mapmywalk - GPS walk tracking app. IOS, Android and Windows phone 

• Runtastic - GPS Running and Walking Fitness Tracker. IOS, Android, Blackberry app & windows phone

• Pedometer+ + IOS

• Walk4Life  - a simple way to record all your walking journeys. IOS.

Walking Campaigns

• Be a Friend -  Friends of the Elderly is calling on everyone to help change the future of loneliness, going for a walk with an elder person is a great way of providing friendship and getting exercise at the same time.

• National Walking Month May 2018 – Walk  to Work Week and Walk to School Week from Living Streets

Walking Exercise Programmes

• British Heart Foundation - Walking training schedules for beginner intermediate and advanced  

• Ramblers – Wales pedometer Challenge 

• The Walking site - Tips for walking faster

• The Walking site - Zero to Sixty in Twelve Weeks. An easy to follow schedule to get you walking 60 minutes in 12 weeks.
• World Walking - Gives you walking goals to aim for

10,000 Steps Challenges

• NHS Choices - 10,000 Steps Challenge 

• The Walking Site - 10,000 Steps Challenge  

• walking.about.com - Should You Walk 10000 Steps per Day

Walking Facts

• 51 Fun Facts about Walking – From Random Facts

Walking Groups and Organisations

• Green Exercise - Walking and Conservation groups activities in South Yorks Hasting and Norwich 

• Living Streets - Working to make the streets you live, work, shop and play in safe, attractive and enjoyable spaces

• Ramblers - Britain's biggest walking community

• Walking for Health - Walking for Health is England’s largest network of health walk schemes

• Walk4Life - Find walks, events and groups to walk with

• Walk Unlimited (formerly Walk England) - A Social enterprise helping people walk

Walking Routes

• National Trails - National Trails pass through some of the most stunning landscapes  in the UK Britain 
• National Trust  - Walking route and event finder 
• Ramblers - There are hundreds of walks organised each week. 
• Sport London - Get active London activity finder. Search walking
• Walking for Health - Walk Finder

• Walk for Life - find a walk there are thousands to choose from

• Walk London - London’s top seven walking routes including Thames path route
• Woodland Trust – Over 1,000 woods to visit

Health Organisations

• British Heart Foundation – Lots of info around walking and keeping your heart healthy
• Get Britain Standing - This is a campaign to grow awareness and education of the dangers of sedentary working.