sunday strolls - my favourite kind of exercise

If you've been reading this blog for a while, despite the fact I promote it as a 'health and fitness' blog, most of the time I don't enjoy much of the exercise that I do.  
But, on Sunday afternoons, if the weather is dry and there's no housework to be done (am I kidding, there's always housework to be done!), then me and the Mr like to go out for a wander.
I'm lucky, although I live in the city, and only a ten minute walk to the centre, I have two beautiful parks pretty much on my doorstep, we're also a short journey to the lake district (not that we make the most of it) and are surrounding by countryside just minutes away in the car.
So on Sunday's, we walk.  It might just be to the local park, in fact that's my favourite, or it might be further afield, but it's so lovely to get out, enjoy each other's company and not have the distractions of our phone, the television, work or things to do in the house.  Ok, sometimes my phone does distract, but I just bloody love Instagram stories and so I have to stop for a quick snap/video/reply to whatsapp...


I enjoy walking, it clears the head, does havoc with my hair (especially in Cumbria), and burns a few calories, which is proving more and more necessary with my sugar addiction.  I never watch the clock to see if the hour is nearly up, I never find myself hand on knees panting, praying it'll all be over soon, I don't suffer temporary blindness as sweat as drips in my eyes and I don't bemoan doing it all again in a couple of days. 
So there's this thing called LISS Cardio Training, it stands for Low Intensity Steady State, and apparently walking can be classified as that, strolling? I'm not so sure, but I like to think my wanders are doing me some good. It's something to do with the body needing oxygen to burn fat, the lower the intensity, the more oxygen available.  I don't understand the science of it all, but it's good to know that on Sunday's, I don't need to worry about sweating my ass off, as long as I can get out and clock up a few steps on my fitbit, then I'm doing good.  And if I can take a few pretty photos along the way, then that's great too.