Unlike other forms of exercise, walking doesn’t demand too much from you. It’s just a natural physical activity that humans do. It’s not like basketball where you have to have at least the tangibles like a pair of sneakers and a basketball and a lot of intangibles like all the skills necessary to play the sport. But you can walk pretty much in your buff (though some clothes and a pair of walking shoes would do a lot more nicely).

A 2005 study shows that walking 30 minutes a day can increase your life by as much as 1.3 to 1.5 years. Well, as with any “fountain of youth” claims, there’s no harm in trying one that’s logical and natural.

Walking 30 minutes in a chunk can be a bit more demanding in time - probably more than you can squeeze into a busy schedule. But this doesn’t mean you can’t walk 30 minutes total. Since you can walk just pretty much any time you like why not spread those 30 minutes across two 15-minute sessions. Once during lunchtime perhaps and once just after work. That way you don’t have to devote a solid chunk of your precious minutes doing one activity. If your office is nice enough to have a treadmill, hit it during breaks.

Oh, another trick? Leave the car at home and justify your biped makeup.

So get up you Net potato, and start walking!