Walks and Walking: Musculoskeletal fitness refers to muscular strength, muscular endurance, and joint flexibility. Maintaining musculoskeletal fitness through walking can increase overall quality of life.

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Walking and Musculoskeletal Fitness
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By DH Owens

Walking: Increasing the frequency of walking or the length of your walks will increase musculoskeletal fitness.

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Musculoskeletal fitness refers to muscular strength, muscular endurance, and joint flexibility. Maintaining musculoskeletal fitness through walking can increase overall quality of life.

Musculoskeletal fitness is an important factor in your ability to carry out everyday tasks and enjoy your life. 

When walking, include a few hills to work your muscles. The regular rhythmic action of any type of walking will benefit your bones and joints.

Increasing the frequency of walking or the length of your walks will increase musculoskeletal fitness.

The earlier in life an individual becomes physically active the greater the increase in positive health benefits; however, becoming physically active at any age will benefit overall health. Improved musculoskeletal fitness (for example, through resistance training combined with walking and stretching) is associated with an enhanced health status. 

Muscular strength is the maximal one-effort force that can be exerted against a resistance. For example, lifting the heaviest box possible on moving day.

Muscular endurance is the ability of the muscles to supply a particular force repeatedly. For example, doing sit-ups, push-ups, chin-ups, or lifting an object repeated times.

Flexibility is the ability of the joints to move through a full range of movement such as looking behind you.

Walking for fitness:

Musculoskeletal fitness is one more benefit of regular walking.

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