Find tips for national fitness days and beyond at Exercists blog

If you’re thumbing through your calendar of official health holidays, you already know Wednesday is National Women’s Health and Fitness Day. No need to buy a card, just spend 30 minutes exercising that day -- and every day.

One easy way to start, if you don’t have a regular exercise program, is walking: It’s free and you don’t have to master any special skills to begin. Read “Walking: A Step in the Right Direction.”

Need more inspiration to get moving? Check out a new health blog at the Baltimore Sun called Exercists that offers tips and ideas year-round, no matter where you live.

--Mary Forgione/For the Los Angeles Times