When you take up Sport Walking, regardless of your motivation, you’re going to need somewhere to go walking, right? It might seem blindingly obvious but until you make that first step, you might not have thought much about the availability of paths, trails or traffic free routes in your local area. Perhaps you’ve previously just…

You might think, at face value, that October isn’t a particularly significant month. Okay, it has Halloween but that’s really just a glorified excuse to buy a huge box of chocolates (that you know you won’t run out of on the night), so you can have a stash in your cupboard whenever you fancy a…

One of the most frequent questions we’re asked in relation to training or fitness work is whether climbing steps is a good option. It’s not always a question posed with a desire to increase the intensity of climbing (which steps or stairs actually do) but perhaps because of a lack of hills in the area.…

We’re often asked about the value of weighted training vests for Sport Walking and our response is always the same – it can have benefits but, equally, it all depends what you’re Sport Walking for and what other components you’re building into your routine. Weighted vests, ‘tactical vests’, call them what you like, they’re now…

We often talk about the benefits of Sport Walking and how it can give you all you need to get fit and have adventures. So you might think that we only want you to go Sport Walking and to do nothing else. Well you’d be wrong! Although Sport Walking on its own can take care…

How fast can you actually walk? Chances are, unless you’ve taken our My First Ultra or Get Sport Walking courses and have followed them to the letter, you may not know. Well, if that’s you, we want to change that because knowledge is power – power to progress, power to improve. So what exactly are…

It’s interesting how we tend to view different phases of the year. So often, we thing of summer as the time of ultimate productivity – it’s generally when we take on our challenges, the long days mean we have more time to get more done and, perhaps, kids being on holiday forces a change of…

In the last in this series about mixing running with Sport Walking, the only thing that remains is to lay out the positive role walking can play for runners. The concept of ‘run walking’ has been around for ages, largely thanks to the work of Jeff Galloway and its benefits (for runners) in training is…