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Episode: What makes walking so great for your health and what else do you need to do
Description: Health experts say walking is an easy way to improve physical and mental health, bolster fitness and prevent disease.
Doctors say people should also add other activities to their fitness routines, including resistance exercises like lifting weights and activities that keep you flexible like yoga or stretching.
“You don’t need equipment and you don’t need a gym membership,” says Dr. Sarah Eby, a sports medicine physician with Mass General Brigham. “And the benefits are so vast.”
Walking can help meet the U.S. surgeon general’s recommendation that adults get at least 2 1/2 hours of moderate-intensity physical activity every week. This hel...