Product Description

"Walking for Weight Loss" takes fitness back to basics. As a refreshing alternative to complex, choreographed dance routines and over-priced gym memberships, walking is a form of exercise that is free, enjoyable and a natural part of our everyday life. It is therefore the obvious way to slim down, tone up and get active on a daily basis. You really can lose weight through walking - all you need to do is correct your posture and your technique, work on your stride, speed up your pace and change your focus to transform that everyday saunter into a fat-burning power walk. Lucy Knight guides you through each stage, showing you how to set yourself realistic goals, how to assess how hard you are working and how to try out different styles of walking while also providing you with a compatible, balanced healthy eating plan so that you see results fast. Whether you are walking round the block or across the moor, on a crisp winter's day, or in gorgeous sunshine, there is always a flexible option for you. It is the perfect and safest exercise for achieving not only weight loss, but complete mental and physical health, as well as a new and focused zest for life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13351 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Health 24 January/February 2007
taking fitness back to basics, this refreshing alternative to most exercise
books offers a guide to walking to fitness.

Yorkshire Post, January 31, 2007
It doesn't require any special equipment, you can do it pretty
much anywhere and best of all, it's entirely free.

About the Author
Lucy Knight is a professional fitness instructor and trained dancer. She has a over a decade of experience in the fitness industry and in that time has seen a new approach to walking change many clients lives for the better. She has designed and presented eight fitness programmes on video and DVD and provided consultancy for Avon Cosmetics. Lucy's Gymball Workout promotion for Special K was so successful that sales were double Kellogg's original expectations. She also regularly contributes to magazines such as Best, Mother and Baby and Slimmer, healthier, fitter and has written Exercise Ball for Weight Loss in the same series for Kyle Cathie.

Customer Reviews

Like having your own physiotherapist or personal trainer!
This is a really good book with lots of sound advice in it. I wanted to read it initially to lose weight, but the surprise benefit was the chapter on posture. I knew I had been slouching over the computer at work and this was giving me a sore back and shoulders, but I didn't realize how quickly these problems could start to go away with the right advice. The other wonderful thing is that by working on my posture I looked slimmer immediately, even before losing any weight!

The book is beautifully laid out and the photographs are great. The photos that demonstrate the exercises explain what you need to do very clearly. The other photos of walkers heading off on their walk look so appealing you just wish you were there!

I'm not usually very keen to get out and exercise, but this book is written in an encouraging and enthusiastic style, so now I'm feeling really motivated.

Exactly what I wanted
Being a keen runner training for 10K races, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was gutted at the possibility that I could not run for a year. I did try to run two weeks into chemo but it didnt work out.

I like to train and have a fitness regime so this part of having cancer has been difficult. Then I decided I would taylor make a walking plan for me to use through my treatment so that when it was over, I could take up running again.

I bought this book together with Walking for Fitness and I am so pleased that I have.

The book is asthetically pleasing with lovely photographs and a layout which is easy on the eye.

I particularly liked the section on posture and how to get a good one because I know I havent and it has caused me running problems. It explains the technique in a step by step format, stretches, training zones, walking meditation (interesting), what to wear, diet and a walking plan.

Great value for money although if I were to choose out of the two books I would go for Walking for Fitness first, however, at this price, the two compliment each other really well.

Potentially very good
I have now read most of the book. It is not what I expected as there is a large portion of the book dedicated to exercises - which are important. There are also some recipes which completely baffled me - either this is an exercise book or a diet book. The walking plans themselves don't take up much of the book at all and I would have liked more plans with variety. There are really only 3 levels of plan to do and you need to adapt them to meet your own needs. There are another 2 plans which may be relevant one day.

What would have helped is to see some success stories - how long it took people to lose weight. How they found following these plans. I will be giving it a go, however and see how it goes