Warming up, Stretching, and Other Useful Tips

Warming up, Stretching, and Other Useful Tips

By Mark Fenton mark.fenton@verizon.net (taken from the AZ Department of Health Services Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan Kick-off, 2005)

This section has been added with permission from the AZ Department of Health Services Nutrition and Physical Activity State Plan kick-off event, 2005. Here are the components you can choose from:

Warm-up, faster walking techniques, after activity stretches

• Five Walking Warm-up Moves
• Four Tips for Faster Walking Technique
• The Three-Minute After-Activity Stretch Routine

Use of a Pedometer to Increase Walking

• Fitness Walking With a Pedometer - The 20% Boost Program
• Where do I get a pedometer?
• How do I estimate walking distance most accurately?
• How do I add 100 steps?
• How do I add 1,000 steps?
• How fast am I walking?