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Find Sole-Mates — friends, colleagues and walkers who share your goals. Connect with them online for encouragement and support. You might even find someone near you to walk with!
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This amazing tool lets you log your activities, distance traveled and daily meals. See your progress and celebrate accomplishments!
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Take this quick quiz to get your own personalized walking plan, developed by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) in collaboration with the AHA. Walk your way toward a healthier you!
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Designed to promote physical activity and heart-healthy living, the Heart Walk helps raise funds to fight heart disease and stroke in an environment that’s fun with friends, family and coworkers!
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Attention Sole-Mates: Our Community has been Removed
Thank you for your many conversations and encouragement to others within our online Community. Unfortunately, it is with heavy heart that we are announcing that we have will no longer be able to support the Community within StartWalkingNow.org. This has been removed from our website.
We know that community is still important to you. So we encourage you to use our other resources, including our MyWalking Clubs program, as well as our American Heart Association Facebook page. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you, but we hope that you will find that other programs an opportunity to connect and start walking with neighbors, coworkers, friends, family and new friends. Visit the Walking Club website to start a club today!
Policy Statement: Preventing Heart Disease is Good Long-term Investment for Health, Medical Costs
FACT: For every dollar spent on building trails for walking or biking saves $3 in medical costs. For every dollar spent on comprehensive coverage for smoking cessation programs led to reduced hospitalizations for heart attacks and a $3.07 return on investment. The American Heart Association’s new policy statement is a call to action for a stronger investment in prevention strategies to reduce cardiovascular disease.
Walking Associated with Lower Stroke Risk in Women
Women who walked two or more hours a week or who usually walked at a brisk pace (3 miles per hour or faster) had a significantly lower risk of stroke than women who didn’t walk, according to a large, long-term study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.