Here’s an interesting book to read: Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss and Fitness. The book is an inclusive guide written by Mark Fenton and David R. Bassett, Jr. designed to get people up and moving.
The book uses trivia, experts and science to educate their readers on not only how to increase their steps, but also to suggest ways to incorporate walking into their daily routines. They also provide data on how to taking walking to the next level can keep a walker interested and motivated.
It’s not the ambitions that make people become more active, Fenton says in the book. It’s about incorporating walking into day-to-day life. Small changes matter.
Pedometer Walking: Stepping Your Way to Health, Weight Loss and Fitness includes warm up exercises, charts for speed and calories burned as well as a weekly log to track your own progress. There are mini-biographies designed to inspire by sharing real stories of people who lost weight and got in shape through walking.
The book is a great read and offers a lot of insights. Some are familiar tales that many fitness experts offer and there are unique suggestions. Fenton says it all begins with the notion of getting off the couch. The end of the story is not the weight loss or the fitness, but becoming a driving force in your own local community. You can create and push issues that include making your neighborhood more ‘walkable.’
It’s worth the investment for those of you who enjoy walking or believe you would.