Today we have one mission; to dispel a few rumours about a past time affiliated only with the boring. There are a few major reasons why a vast majority of you fella’s would never even consider the possibility of walking being more than something other than your least favoured commuting medium.

Firstly, why would you use walking as an exercise when it’s everything that isn’t the metallic shimmer of the gymnasium? Secondly, no one cool has ever donned a pair of Wellingtons and strolled across the moors. And thirdly, many of you would not really consider walking as even close to an adequate replacement to a hard work out on the treadmill.

So as you are nodding along, it seems that our mission has become even harder, as the reasons you knew have been set in stone. Well, now that they are concrete, let us be the bulldozer.

Benefits to mental health

My apologies to start off so deep chaps, but the bash needs to rock the boat. Although we all keep up a very decent front, the stress of modern life can not just effect you in the short term, but can have a vast influence on how you pan out your entire. Exercise itself can have a massive impact on your mental condition, but to get yourself out in the parks and countrysides is a venture that allows you to release all worries and enjoy the scenery and fresh air.

Battling illness

Yes, you are right to be dubious as this is a little broad, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Just last year, a study carried out by the World Cancer Research Fund found that around 10,000 cases of Bowel and Breast Cancer could be prevented each year through simple, brisk walking. A further study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, concluded that daily walking helps strengthens the brain’s memory circuit, and Alzheimers could also be prevented through a recommended six miles a week for healthy people.

Longer Living

Jane Dall was at a very healthy innings of 106 when it was revealed that the secret to her lengthy life was walking absolutely everywhere, and in fact, she had never been behind a wheel in her life. But facts is what you want, so let us back up the romance of Dall with a fact-bomb that says that fit and healthy people have about half the risk of cardiovascular disease compared to inactive people.

Bolstering your immune system

Finally, a solid reason for why so many of our Christmas’s are ruined by the sniffles. The American Journal of Medicine found that regular 30-minute walks increase the levels of Leukocytes in the body, and as a vital part of the immune cells that fight infection, the more of them the better. So the less walking we do over Christmas due to the cold has a direct effect on our likeliness to induce some form of man flu. We should have put this bit at the top.

Strengthening the bones

Like all athletic past times, the more practice you get the better you become, which is why taking walks across the difficult country paths and rocky roadways can have a vast positive effect on your bone structure. As you take on such difficult walkways, your bones will obviously become more stronger, thus leaving you very unlikely to have a impromptu sprain or twisted ankle as you run for the tube, for example.

So as change is firmly on the agenda, go over and visit www.hi-tec.com and invest in a pair walking boots that will prove a live-enhancing decision. Just because ‘Mad Men’ doesn’t include a walking episode doesn’t make the practice uncool.