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| Walking Magazine The Complete Guide To Walking: for Health, Fitness, and Weight Loss | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Fenton
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Discount Category: Book
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Customer Ratings:  10 comments
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (pounds): 1.5
Dimensions (inch): 10.5 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1585741906
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7176
EAN: 9781585741908
Publication Date: March 1, 2001
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Product Description
Take one year to change your life - forever! From America's preeminent walking experts comes this honest approach to achieving all your fitness goals. The Surgeon General recommends an average of 30 minutes of movement per day to assure greater health and longer life. Most health and fitness experts agree, the best and simplest way to achieve this is through a brisk daily walk. The Complete Guide to Walking is an informative, inspiring, and practical handbook to receiving all the benefits of walking. It provides fundamental information as well as dozens of solutions to help readers overcome their own barriers to regular daily activity, including: - A 52-week program (including distances, times, and more) - Tricks and tips to help you get out the door - Success stories of real people - Inspiring full-color photographs throughout - Guidelines on selecting footwear, clothing, and other gear - Hints for time management - How to use a walking log - How to create a personalized program - Stretching and strength training for the walker Based on the overwhelmingly successful Walking magazine series "52 Weeks to Turn Yourself Around," The Complete Guide to Walking provides a training routine that encourages self-confidence and a happier, healthier lifestyle.
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great beginner book May 14, 2008
I HIGHLY recommend this book for walkers who need a boost in information about ways to structure walking habits. This book helped / gave me ideas so I could create my own structured walking plan/program.
Since I aquired this wonderful book I am up to 10 miles a day of serious aerobic walking.
SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!! April 9, 2008
2 out of 5 found this comment useful.
Wow this was a great read!!!
I have been walking for awhile, i guess since i was about 7 months. once i started i just couldnt stop. I was walking everywhere around the playground, the backyard, i would even do multiple laps around the couch! im not gonna lie, i was pretty good. after decades of walking however, i was still having the same problems with form and technique. i assumed i could work these out on my own eventualy, but boy was i wrong. for example, i would routinly fall when attempting to pass uneven surfaces, i could not figure out why until i read this book. turns out, my form was fudamentaly flawed. Instead of simply steping onto the higher surface, i would get on my left leg and left arm only,then use my bodyweight to heave myself on the surface of higher elevation. living in manhatten, this made traveling around the city nearly impossible. one night i actually was locked into a subway station, beacause of my inability to scale the tall 20ft staircase. i yelled for the attendant, but i dont think he heard me, he appeared to be laughing very hard at something, maybe a joke a friend of his told earlier in the day. anyways, I was quickly tackling curbs, stairs...yes...stairs, i was even scaling the step used in aerobic classes!! I cant count the ways this book has changed my life
Walking Magazine - The Complete Guide to Walking: for Health, Fitness, and Weight Loss May 14, 2007
4 out of 5 found this comment useful.
Do you like to walk? Are you thinking about walking as a way to get some exercise, lose weight, or to de-stress? This is the only book you will ever need. Mark Fenton is not only qualified to write this excellent guide, he has done the hard, creative work to do it. Whether you are a veteran walker, a beginner, or just thinking about the possibility of starting; this guide has so much to offer each of you.
I'm excited about walking! April 26, 2007
8 out of 9 found this comment useful.
I had been talking about starting a walking program for months. One of my coworkers finally bought this book for me, and it immediately lit a (figurative) fire under my butt to get me moving!
This book not only provides a 52-week guideline for increasing your activity, but it also serves as a journal to log what activity you have acheived that day. It stresses getting 6 days of at least 30 minutes of activity, but it has a 4-week plan to ease you into the 30 minutes if you've been fairly inactive before starting the program.
The author also urges you to get your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose level checked at the beginning of your 52-week program, again at 6 months, and again at the end of the program. I think that's highly responsible of the author, and was also highly motivating for me to visit my doctor for the first time in over 2 years.
THE Best Book on Walking! August 21, 2006
13 out of 13 found this comment useful.
I have read many books on walking, and this is by far the best. It is good for the novice or expert and contains a great progressional walking program that you can jump into at any point.
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