Walking with health conditions

Manage your illness better and naturally boost your wellbeing.

Living with a health condition or disease such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, or asthma can make it more difficult to stay active. Yet getting active a few times a week can help manage chronic conditions, prevent them from becoming more serious, and reduce our symptoms. It makes us feel good too!

Illness can leave us with physical limitations, lacking motivation, or our condition can knock our confidence. But walking could be the answer. Just one short walk at a gentle pace can put us in a better mood and leave us feeling more confident. And walking regularly boosts our wellbeing and helps us manage our condition. Because it’s gentle on our joints, it’s safer than other forms of exercise too.

Take your first steps to being more active, with confidence

Ramblers Wellbeing Walks are ideal for getting started with walking and staying active. Support from trained walk leaders helps you take those first steps towards being more active. And you’ll be amongst a friendly bunch all walking for their own reasons - whether to ward off illness, manage health conditions or boost wellbeing.

Advice for walking with health conditions

Thinking about starting to walk with certain health conditions can bring up lots of questions. So here’s some helpful information. Please always speak to a healthcare professional before getting more active.