Walking Songs
Walking sessions for a minimum period of thirty to sixty minutes a day, five days a week, with the correct walking posture, diminishes health risks and has various overall health benefits such as reducing the chances of cancer, heart disease, anxiety and depression. Walking also increases bone health, especially strengthening the hip bone, and lowering the more harmful cholesterol, and raises the more useful cholesterol.
In todays world people are so health conscious that every single person is doing some or the other exerscise. Exercise alone has been shown to improve mental functioning and the easiest and the simplest form of exercise is walking. According to Ohio State University researchers, exercise, which is done with music is more effective. They found that cardiac rehabilitation patients listening to music while on the treadmill had double the verbal fluency scores in comparison to the patients who used the treadmill without music.
People find walking with music exhilarating, and stimulating and the best songs for walking are ones that set the tempo of your run. In fact, most walkers use music to help set their speed, which is why understanding the beats per minute (BPM) of a song can be beneficial. Most walkers will want to choose music with a BPM between 100 to 140 BPM. A stroll walker going about 3 miles an hour (mph) should pick music that is between 115 to 120 BPM. Power walkers going about 4.5 mph should pick music that is between 135 and 140 BPM.
Always try to choose songs that are close in BPM, to ensure your speed stays constant. It is also good to choose a slightly slower song for the beginning and ending to warm up and cool down. There are many sites which provide different kinds of walking songs from jazz to classical.
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