Aspen Club and Spa

Many people don’t associate walking with exercise. Ah, but it is exercise, one of the greatest forms. You can walk anywhere. Up the steep steps at Red Rocks.  On the treadmill at the club, who care’s that you aren’t going anywhere? Down the trails of your favorite hike.  From the farthest parking spot in the mall to a store. Every step counts. Pump your arms a bit and hasten your step, and you’ve got a good heart rate going for some cardio. Put on some tunes or just people and nature watch.

My favorite walk these days involves going to the track. Not the track you’d see at a high school, but the track that is the loop around Washington Park. I like to go in the mornings when there is still mist coming off the lake, Canadian Geese flying overhead. Sure its a man made lake smack dab in the middle of a city park, but I’ll take it as it’s one minute from my apratment. There is a sense of beginning and end as I walk the loop, greeting others along the way-dog walkers, bikers, rollerbladers.

 The walk is not the same every time, as there are different things on my mind and the landscape changes daily. I find walking is also therapeutic; I discuss the upcoming day in my head as my feet lighlty pound the gravel. After a good 3-4 times around, depending on my energy that day, I feel stiff-in a good way. A few stretches and I am good to go. I love the fact that I’ve just exercised, too. Mind and body, what a deal.

I recommend a walk a day, wherever it may be.

Amber has been working out really hard these past few weeks in preparation for police academy. Tom a personal trainer here at the club has been working with her for sometime. Yesterday I shot them working out. Good job Amber, keep up the good work.