The Best Way to Walk

The Best Way to Walk

by | Jun 15, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

In our current EverWalk Book Club selection, The Last Great Walk by Wayne Curtis, a great deal of attention is paid to walking gaits. During the nineteenth century, a number of books were written analyzing the most efficient human gaits. Back then, two primary forms...
Walking: Our True Human Story

Walking: Our True Human Story

by | Jun 8, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

In this week’s EverWalk blog, we share the journey of “the war correspondent walking the world” in a National Geographic project to retrace the global migration patterns of our human ancestors. Since January 2013, 59-year-old American journalist Paul Salopek has been...
Celebrating the Rails-to-Trails Movement

Celebrating the Rails-to-Trails Movement

by | May 24, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

This week’s blog celebrates one of the great American movements of the past half-century. . . The Rails-to-Trails Movement. You may be surprised to learn that it all began back in the mid-1960s — and in the Midwest of all places. This was the idea that surfaced:...
The Science of Activity Inequality

The Science of Activity Inequality

by | May 18, 2021 | EverWalk Blog

EverWalk began as a means of addressing the increasing awareness of the correlation between lack of physical activity and illness: “Sitting is the new smoking.” This connection has become an ever moreurgent field of study around the world — particularly as it relates...