Author: Maggie Spilner
Publisher: B Jain Pub.
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 292
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8180565653
Description
From the walking editor of America’s number one healthy living magazine comes the definitive guide to America’s number one fitness activity: Walking.
Join Maggie Spilner as she introduces you to the tools and techniques that can help you get more from your walking routine. You’ll go farther and faster, with great comfort and less risk of injury.
Complete Book of Walking features:
Three working plans to help you walk off extra pounds
Step-by-step instructions for finding perfect-fitting shoes
Yoga poses that support an efficient, fluid stride
A buyer’s guide for choosing the best treadmill
A complete program to train for 5-X event
Complete Book of Walking also features the 6-week Dynamic Walking program developed by Suki Munsell, PhD. You’ll learn to move your body with grace, control, and power, so you’ll learn to move your body with grace, control, and power, so you’ll get even greater benefit from your walking routine.
REVIEW
There are few people who have done more for walking, or who know more about walking, than Maggie Spilner…This is truly a walking encyclopedia for the new millennium.
-From the foreword by Elaine Ward, founder and director of the North American Racewalking Foundation
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
A WALKER’S ATTITUDE
Part I: On the Road to Better Health
Part 2: Are you Ready to Walk?
Part 3. Walk in any Weather
Part 4: Walk off Your Weight
Part 5: Strength Training for Walkers
Part 6: Games Walkers Play
Part 7: The Spirit in Walking
Part 8: Getting Started with Dynamic Walking
Part 9: Everything Else you Need to Know
EPILOGUE
PREVENTION WALKING CLUB
PHOTO CREDITS
INDEX