Tag Archives: Exercise

The tag Exercise is used on this site for anything about how to exercise, such as QiGong or walking with a pedometer. It also includes articles where the benefits of exercise are mentioned.

Why Use a Pedometer? You Will Walk More as the Pedometer Keeps Count

Simple Green Living

Walking is the easiest exercise to include in your daily life without needing bulky equipment or a gym membership. Just be sure to wear good shoes for walking, and then take off. You can go for walks alone or with family members or neighbors. You can walk a dog — yours or someone else’s. If shopping, walk some extra distance in the store or parking lot. If you get a pedometer and keep it in your pocket, you will be able to measure how well you are doing, and this can provide a lot more motivation. I have kept an … Continue reading →

Wild Goose QiGong with Dr. Bingkun Hu

Simple Green Living

Wild Goose QiGong is an easily learned form of this ancient Chinese art. I know it’s easily learned, because I’ve been learning it from DVDs. It’s helped my flexibility tremendously and has made other, more subtle improvements in my well-being also. Simple living includes taking care of our bodies, in my view, to do what we can to avoid the suffering and stress that illness can bring. Or to put that more positively, the better our energy, the better our quality of life. About six months ago, my sister-in-law Alexandra came to visit us for a few weeks. She brought … Continue reading →