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Natural Weight Loss Program/Find Your Pace & Stride

Find Your Pace and Stride

- Easy, Efficient, Natural

Fundamental.

All creatures,

gifted with basic mobility,

possess a natural Pace and Stride.

So do you.

Find your (natural) pace & stride. It’s important. It’s real.

·         Walk today.

·         Walk tomorrow.

·         Walk all-day.

That’s Your Pace and Stride Goal. It’s Basic Walking.

·         Frequency of Foot Step

·         Length of Gait

·         Breathing

Find your Pace and Stride. And you’ll walk miles …

·         It’s your start point

·         It’s your fall back spot

·         It’ll keep you from falling apart

Natural. Uncomplicated. Find your personal pace and stride. Today!

It’s easy. All you really need …  

·         Footwear/Serious/Get it

·         Focus/Awareness/Breathe

·         Flat surface/Outdoors/Big

Now, don’t worry about how far or how fast or how long.

Right now, you just want to focus on the how. The Basics.

·         Posture

·         Breathing

·         Efficiency

·         Control

You want to avoid wrenching, rattling, jarring.

You don’t want an oxygen debt incident.

You want your walking (natural pace & stride) baseline.

·         Comfortable

·         Deliberate

·         Sure-footed

·         Confident

Pace and stride. Your Pace & Stride!  It's Important. 

It’s about natural walking cadence/rhythm/efficient technique/proper breathing/comfortable/safe/aware … deliberate steps.  (CRH)

Find Your Pace and Stride. Easy, fun, fascinating, physiology. Smart.

Natural pace and stride. Individual pace and stride. This is your personal baseline. Your comfort zone. Your Safe zone. Your Natural Weight Loss Program Start Point.

Plan: Find your personal walking pace and stride. 

Preparation: Feet first, last, always. Serious footwear – not just tennis shoes or sneakers.

Goal: Efficiency, Avoidance, Prevention.  Find comfortable efficient walking cadence. Avoid aggravating old aches, pains, injuries. Prevent making new ones.

Location: Find/scout suitable terrain. A good long stretch of uncrowded sidewalk. Medium to large empty parking lot. Quiet level back road. Minimize distractions.

Find Your Pace & Stride. Ready? Set,… Start Slow-Walk. Go slow. Go easy. Efficiency over speed. Easy, comfortable, efficient pace. No strain, no pain stride. Slow and easy. Slow and easy. Posture, focus, feel. Listen to your body. Don’t overdo it. Don’t forget to breathe.

Remember: You’re not race walking. You’re not running a marathon. How fast, how far, how long you can walk isn’t important. Efficiency and comfort is. Find your natural rpm. Pace and stride. Pace and stride. Don’t ignore pain. Don’t blow a gasket. And don’t forget to breathe…

Adjust the Throttle. OK. Now the fun part. Ready? Walk a-little faster. Bring your heart rate up a little. Build up steam gradually. BREATHE! Adjust pace. Adjust stride. Experiment. Posture, focus, deliberate, feel, listen, adjust. Pace and stride. Breathe. Keep Going …  no wrenching, no rattling, no jarring, … breathe …

Adjusting Pace – Adjusting Stride.  Usually: Keep Same Pace. Shorten the Stride.

Terrain & Inclines (up-hills)

·         Easy/Moderate/Up Hill /Shorten Stride/First/Basic.

·         Steeper/Slower/Shorter/Go Easier.

·         Flat /Fast/Stretch out Stride/Breathe/No jarring/Control.

How are the feet? Feet, toes, ankles, knees, hips, lower back? Foot pain, …?

(Weight Loss Program Tips) Remember. Don’t kid yourself about shoes. Tennis shoes and sneakers ain’t going to make it. You need (dead-serious) Serious Footwear. Get it – Now! Today! Absolutely essential.

OK.  Throttle-Back Easy. Gradual. Get back to your personal pace and stride.

That nice, natural, steady, even, comfortable, 1 – 2, left – right, all-day, feel-good, klip – klop, pace and stride.

• Walk Today.
• Walk Tomorrow.
• Walk All-Day.

That's what finding Your Pace and Stride is all about.

Pace and Stride. Find it. You can do it. Don’t forget … Breathe! - Coffee Ridge Hiking.

This Ain't a Tennis Shoe ...

And this is no Sneaker ...

This is Serious Footwear.

Coffee Ridge Hiking.

Dead-Serious Footwear.

·         Tennis Shoes?

·         Sneakers?

·         Swoosh’s?

Those are just shoes.

Get Footwear.

Dead-Serious.

Foot–Wear. Period.