Travel by foot

Do you live locally? Walking to work could be the healthiest option! Most people can walk two miles in around thirty minutes so if you live nearer than that why not save cash, reduce your carbon footprint, ensure you don’t get stuck in the traffic and get fit too!

Central Park is within walking distance of a range of local residential areas including Foxrock Village, Leopardstown Heights, The Gallops and Newpark to name a few.

Walking for health

Walking is a fantastic way to get – and stay – healthy.

One of the reasons health experts give walking such rave reviews is because it’s a ‘lifestyle exercise’. That means you can usually make time for it without too much of a change to your daily routine. Walking to work, to the shops, or the final mile from the bus stop to your friend’s house may take a little more time, but it’s certainly not the big project that signing up for a gym (and making the time to get there) can be.

Because it’s easy to fit into everyday life, people who walk tend to keep it up. And as you’ll see below, regular exercise is exactly what you need to improve your health.

• Irish Heart Foundation - Benefits & Tips

  A range of walking related benefits and tips provided by the Irish Heart Foundation - click here

• Irish Heart Foundation - Walking Challenge

  The Slí Challenge has been developed by the Irish Heart Foundation to encourage people to get out walking. Every person who accumulates 100km or 1000 mins and marks it on their Slí Challenge Record Sheet receives a specially designed Silver Slí Pin. Walk 500km or 5,000 mins and a Gold Pin is your reward. Just send your completed challenge card to the Irish Heart Foundation and we will send you on your pin. It's that simple - just get out walking regularly, remembering that every 40 minutes of brisk walking is approx. 3km. - click here

• Happy Heart At Work

  The Irish Heart Foundation’s Happy Heart at Work is designed to assist any individual or working group with responsibility for health or welfare, to plan implement and maintain a healthy lifestyle programme for employees in the workplace - click here