As a profession do we do enough to promote walking?

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Passed on in good faith.

http://foottalk.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/how-far-do-you-walk-and-should-you-be.html

The blog article relates to walking and poses the question as sedentary beings do we walk far enough. Compiling the piece made me think as foot physicians do we always encourage our clientelle to take healthy exercise and more pragmatically could we use pedometers more to promote our practice and podiatry.

What say you?

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toeslayer

 

For me the essential thing is the human psychology related to exercise.

I have added one or two of my own axioms related to exercise.

In the long term, the less one exercises the less one wants to exercise.

Having to make a conscious decision to exercise reduces the likelyhood of exercise taking place.

Taking exercise for exercise sake has little general appeal.

If you have to force yourself to exercise it's not going to happen for long.

At all levels free (cost free) exercise has been actively designed out of our lives.

Wall to wall commercialisation of activity and inactivity results in reducing levels of activity while increasing levels of guilt, which encourages sporadic and expensive bursts of valueless exercise.

If free will exists advertising psycholgists know how to push it to the edge of existence and how to turn it to profit making advantage.

More education re- the benefits of exercises allows people to talk at a higher level on the exercise they should be taking.

As soon as taking exercise means, spending money or an ongoing act of free will you know that you are onto a loser.

The only way people will exercise regularly and sufficiently is if there is no alternative
Bill

 

So true .