3000 Extra Steps a Day

The National Campaign for Walking. A comprehensive and official source of information and advice on the benefits of walking. Links to official partner organisations providing professional information and free services. Reviews of the best books, equipment and clothing to assist you in all your walking needs. Advice and information from Sir Muir Gray and his Walking Cure. Find out about The Campaign for Walking's aim: to get the nation walking an extra 3000 steps a day.

Dr Gray's Walking Cure

Dr Gray's Walking Cure

Exercise! exercise! exercise! what do these words conjure up?  The gym, sweat, leotards, slimming, living longer, getting fitter, obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease.  Take more exercise is the general advice but how should this be done easily, enjoyably and cheaply?  

Daily walking as the answer hardly gets a look-in when the different options are considered, but it is the simplest, most freely available, and medically by far the best of all possible answers.  Walking is the way mankind has kept fit for purpose ever since evolutionary times.  The reasons why we don't do it enough in developed countries now is because we have made it just too easy NOT to do it.  

This book sets a challenge, which you can easily achieve - to walk 1,000,000 EXTRA steps between 2009 and 2013 - revolutionising your daily life, your health, and your carbon footprint.  Its author, Muir Gray, is a doctor who is an acknowledged expert in public health.  He was awarded a CBE, and later a knighthood, for services to the NHS.

Purchase a copy of Dr Gray's Walking Cure here