Product Description

Keep fit, tone-up and lose weight - walking is the perfect way to achieve optimum health, hassle free. Power-walking expert Nina Barough reveals there is a world of difference between a casual stroll and an energising, body-sculpting power walk. Founder of the annual Moonwalk, nina explains how this low-impact form of exercise can be done by anyone, anywhere at anytime and her total walking programme will help you achieve health, vitality and weight-loss. This book was made for walking!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15267 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-29
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Woman & Home, April 1, 2005
'...The best book on the how and why of walking.'

Woman & Home, April 1, 2005
The best book on the how and why of walking

About the Author
Nina Barough is well known to power walkers in the UK. She founded the Walk the Walk Charity in 1999, and organises events, including The Moonwalk, a unique power walking marathon. The annual walk, which starts and ends in Battersea Park, London, attracted 15,000 walkers in 2003 and is in the process branching out worldwide. Nina lives in Finchampstead, Berkshire.

Customer Reviews

Everything you need to know about walking for fitness!!
If you're thinking that walking could be a good way of getting fit, losing weight or just keeping you healthy, then this book will tell you how to go about it. If you have already started walking and want to hone your power walking technique, or train for a specific goal (e.g. the London Moonwalk), then this book will tell you everything you need to know. But if you're more into hiking or country walks, then this is not for you.

A brilliant book at all levels, Walking for Fitness is written by Nina Barough who started the Walk the Walk charity and is a power-walking guru. It covers absolutely everything, with sections on how to get started, basic walking technique, stretches and complimentary exercises, good walking shoes and clothing, cross training, food intake, related injuries, walking with children, walking while pregnant, walking for charities or in competitions and training programmes.

Barough has devised different training programmes for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, for weight loss, and for those with distance goals. I am in training for the Moonwalk marathon this summer (2005), but I started using this book when I was a complete novice and it has held my hand all the way through. I am still referring to it to remind myself of things I have forgotten, for information that is relevant to me now but wasn't when I started, or for the extras I can focus on now that more of my routine has become automatic.

It doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60, this is an uplifting book that will encourage you into a way of keeping fit that you can rely on for the rest of your life. After all, you can walk anywhere and everywhere. Worth every penny.

Good for walking fitness
The author, Nina Barough, is the organiser of the Moonwalk, which is a marathon walk held every year in London to raise money for Breast Cancer research.
This book is excellent if you want to use walking to build up your fitness or lose weight through walking. However, it really does mean walking in the park or on roads. The author spends no time at all on any sort of off-road walking, which is what most people would choose to do if they want to walk long distances (and this builds up to walking marathons). She suggests walking shoes rather than boots - again, only suitable for road walking. There are lots of handy tips on nutrition and stretching and some useful training guides for marathons and half-marathons.
I do lots of walking and I did find some of the book helpful but would suggest it is mainly for beginners. If you are doing the Moonwalk, this would be an excellent training guide.

Power walking is not like normal walking!
This book is great if power-walking is what you want to do. Unfortunately this is not implied in the title. Any information you might want about how normal walking can make you fit is simply not here. This is for serious fitness freaks only. Unfortunately thats not me, so the book is no use to me at all.