Great for Beginners... | Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness

Walking to Fitness | Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness | Mark Fenton, David R. Bassett Jr.

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	• Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness Mark Fenton, David R. Bassett Jr. The Lyons Press, 2006 - 184 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

OMRON PEDOMETER WITH PC PROGAM

This is a super pedometer! Easy read, stores lots of info, and software to store it away on. Provides monthly chart to preserve what I do or don't do so far as walking goals in an easily accessed and colorful way. I'm on my second. Only complaint is the safety clip which attaches to pocket or waistband was fragile on the first and broke which meant it was constantly falling to the ground. Pedometer survived the falls and still works fine but I was concerned I'd lose it so ordered another. Great investment if you're interested in keeping records of your progress.

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Great for Beginners...

This book would be perfect for someone who has just purchased a pedometer and not started using it yet. I have already been using my pedometer, so I didn't find the book nearly as helpful. That said, it sets you up with a plan, with week by week instructions. For example, for the first week, you're supposed to wear your pedometer all day, but not look at it, and do your normal amount of activity - don't try and get more steps, so you can establish a baseline to improve upon.

The book has useful information on different types of pedometers, ways to get more steps, and how to take your walking to the next level (race or trail walking). Unfortunately, it was hard to read, because every page had at least 2 tables, charts, or "stories" that were separate from the chapter. I found by the time I had stopped to look at the tables, charts, and inspirational stories, I could hardly remember what the actual chapter was talking about.

But for someone who wants to start with the very basics of pedometer walking, this would be a great guide. For those of us who are already seasoned pedometer users, you will likely find a few neat tips in here, but it may not be worth it to purchase it (try the library).

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Walking to Fitness

The book is well written, easy to read and the right size to easily fit into your gym bag or backpack (5 1/2 X 8 1/2). Excellent ideas on setting up your own program. Relatively inexpensive.

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Good plan

If you're wondering how to get the most out of using a pedometer, this book is for you. It's pretty basic so for someone like me that is already walking more than the average American but still not enough, I still was able to use it to structure a program for myself. It also gives equivalants for activities like swimming or bike riding. In my 4th week I'm seeing an improviment in my legs appearence and strength and I'm starting to lose wieght. It's become a way of life that I don't think I would have if not for the info in this book.

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Get Pedometer Walking....and Walk Away a Winner!

Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness is a great book to get if you want to get into better shape or lose weight by walking. It's also a great read to help you get the most out of your pedometer. Here's what you get.

The book has no chapters, but rather centers around a 6-week program. As you might have guessed, each section is a week. Weekly step logs are also included at the end of sections.

Week 1 is simply about putting on your pedometer and doing your normal activities for a week. The goal here is to find out just what your average number of steps a day is. From there you'll build on that number and the rest of the book shows you how. Included in this section is all the basics you need to know about pedometers, such as how they work, the proper way to wear it, etc. Most helpful!

Know now that your end-all goal of this 6-week program is to get you up to the 10,000 steps a day level. Many people have heard of the "10,000 stpes a day" campaign and it was extremely interesting to me that this number is actually based on research that has been going on since the mid 60's, mainly in Japan of all places. In a nutshell, people who walk 10,000 steps a day tend to have a normal weight compared to people who average about 6,000 steps a day or so. Now that's good info to know.

On to Week 2- the goal here is to increase your average daily steps (which you found out at the end of Week 1) by 20%. This is a nice small increase. This section is all about ways to increase your daily steps.

The Week 3 section is neat. After finding ways to increase your daily step number in the previous week, this week's goal is to practice building some of those modest increases into permanent additions- and to make your newer steps into habits.

Week 4. By now you've managed to increase your steps and may be hitting a plateau when it comes to finding new ways to increase them even further. Enter the goal of week 4- ways to add walks to your week. By using the tips and suggestions in this section, most readers will no doubt be able to find clever ways of adding short walks here and there to further boost their daily step numbers. A few pictures of helpful stretches are also included.

The Week 5 section covers an important way to boost steps- increase the speed at which you take steps. Here you learn the proper, safe way.

And lastly, and perhaps most importantly, is the Week 6 section. Why? Because it covers STICKING with the program. As the book says, more than half the people who start a new fitness program drop out within 6 months. So, the emphasis here is ideas and tips to make pedometer walking a part of your life.

The book ends with a frequently asked questions section and a nice resource section (i.e. hiking info, race walking info...).

I have to say that this is a really enjoyable book to read with good research interspersed within each section. With the book, a pedometer, and a little motivation, I think most every reader will have a lot of fun reaching a new level of fitness. Avid walkers that have plantar fasciitis may also be interested in The 5-Minute Plantar Fasciitis Solution.

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