Product Description

Walking is one of the most natural and fundamental of all human conscious movements. It raises your heartbeat, calms your mind and tones your muscles. How ever fast or slowly you walk you are able to achieve well-being and fitness. The greatest thing about walking is that you can do it anywhere and anytime - in your lunch hour, on your way home or at the weekend. This book will tell you everything you need and want to know about using walking to get fit. The book covers all your fitness considerations such as what shoes you should wear, basic equipment, planning your route, adding in arm movements, stretching, warming up, cooling down and power walking. It also gives advice on safety, planning your route, keeping injury-free, nutrition and hydration. For those who want to take their walking to the next level there are walking programmes and tips on entering competitions. Walking Fit provides inspiring and practical information, giving you everythimg you need to know to get fit while walking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #246475 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Walking Fit
I bought this book because a friend recommended it - I'm glad she did. This book shows you how to use different muscles while you walk, and these techniques really make you feel like you've exercised. There's a 6 week plan that seems to have gradually eased me in to a healthier way of living, including weekly exercise and nutrition tasks. If you want to get fit and lose weight but don't want to be tied to a gym, try this book. I walk to work now which makes me feel great because I'm getting fit and saving money at the same time! It's nice to see new stuff out there.

Bit disappointed
I was disappointed. There was a lot of "before you start" material and not enough of "this is what you do". But the thing that got me was a quote from a journal that people who walked at over 5mph were fitter than those who run at the same speed. Walking a mile in 12 minutes is REALLY fast yet this book was supposedly aimed at those of us who would struggle to get fit any other way.