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Cesar Milan might be a little fruity but I've come to believe he really does understand dog mentality exceptionaly well. Just the fact that he can keep a pack of 20 dogs together, many of them pittbulls, and have them all be calm submissive to him and remain a well balanced pack speaks wonders.
What most people don't understand about walking their dogs is it's partly physical, but also a large part of it is mental. It's a pack instict for them to roam. In the wild they would have to walk for food, for water, to patrol their territory, etc. When you take your dog for a walk, and mind you when you walk your dog and not the other way around, you satisfy that primal drive for a healthy pack life. All the smells, sights and sounds combined with the structured movement as a pack (you as pack leader) goes a long way to "fulfill" the basic insticts a dog has.
That's why an hour walk will always be more satisifying for a dog than an hour playing ball in the backyard.
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