Walk Your Way Fit (eBook)

Your Guide to Better Health, Wellness, and Vitality

Sarah Zahab (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
232 Seiten
Human Kinetics (Verlag)
9781718236165 (ISBN)

Infos

If you've ever considered taking up walking to help meet your fitness goals, look no further than Walk Your Way Fit: Your Guide to Better Health, Wellness, and Vitality. Clinical exercise physiologist Sarah Zahab is the 2012 and 2014 winner of the Ontario race walk championships (5,000 m) and the 2016 winner of the Canadian indoor national championship (3,000 m). In Walk Your Way Fit, she details the most efficient, effective, and enjoyable ways to use walking as a tool to improve your fitness and boost longevity. You'll discover how walking benefits the body on the physiological level and how to improve your walking workouts and walking speeds, no matter your fitness level. With tips on injury avoidance, you will be prepared to recognize overuse injuries, recover from injuries, and prevent them from occurring again. Along with scientific evidence for the benefits of walking, Walk Your Way Fit provides you with the following: 10 warm-up drills to safely prepare the body for walking 11 cool-down stretches to ease out of walking 16 targeted strength exercises to help support your walking 12 walking workouts with multiple options to provide variety and an overall balanced walking plan Purposeful and practical, this guide includes 20-, 30-, 45-, 60-, and 75-minute workouts, plus a timed trial to assess walking fitness. You'll also find a variety of workout optionsincluding intervals, power walking, and jogging paired with walkingas well as three treadmill workouts for those days when the weather just isn't cooperating. And if you are interested in getting serious, Walk Your Way Fit includes race training plans for the 5K, 10K, and half-marathon to ensure you're ready for competition. Zahab's own experience as a nationally ranked race walker will help you feel confident as you prepare to hit the starting line. Whether you walk regularly or are just getting started, this guide equips you with all the tools you need to make the most of your walking workouts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2025
• Vorwort: Ray Zahab
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
• ISBN-13: 9781718236165 / 9781718236165