Interval training is quite popular these days for a reason: it works. If your walking (or any cardio) workout has stalled or hit a plateau, or if you want to lose more weight or tone up faster, intervals can certainly help. .

Join the 100 Mile Walking Club! Read this article for details, then lace up your shoes and get started.

A couple of readers have written me lately in exercise distress. They have heard that they should give up walking and just strength-train two or three times a week for fitness and weight loss. So, is that true? Can you just lift weights and skip other forms of exercise?

Stretching offers many benefits and it feels good! Learn the benefits and resources to develop your own stretching routine.

Walking: the Ultimate Exercise for Optimum Health by Andrew Weil and Mark Fenton is a primer on why and how to walk for your health, weightloss, and aerobic conditioning.

Read my review of Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds Book and Videos.

Losing weight seems to be a modern-day obsession. The abundance of high-calorie junk food, our sedentary, TV-watching lifestyles and our media-fed idolization of anorexic celebrities all contribute to our packing on the pounds and then wanting to miraculously take them off.

My newest passion is walking and listening to books on my iPod. I love to read but it is hard to find time to read as much as I would like. So when I discovered I could listen to books when I walk, I was ecstatic!

Of course there are many things one can do for fitness. From playing sports to pilates, weight-lifting to tai chi and many more, there are almost endless options for being active and staying fit. So, why is walking the most talked about, the most practiced and the most recommended by doctors?

When you go on vacation or holiday, or even a business trip, one great way to see the sights and stay active is to take a walking tour. Read on for more info and some great tour ideas.