Wellness Walking

More than 115 million Americans consider walking to be their primary mode of exercise, and the proven health benefits from walking well include cardiovascular health, dementia prevention, stress reduction, and more. Authors Michael J. Gelb and Bruce Fertman provide secrets, advice, and guidance on walking with pleasure, power, poise, and peace.

Walk Your Way to Fitness: Boost Health and Shed Pounds After 50 with Low-Impact Walking Are you over 50 and looking to regain your health, increase your energy, and shed those stubborn pounds? If the thought of intense workouts or complicated fitness plans feels overwhelming, then this book is exactly what you need! Walk Your Way to Fitness is the ultimate guide to transforming your body and mind with one simple, low-impact activity—walking. This easy-to-follow program will show you how to harness the powerful benefits of walking to reset your metabolism, lose weight, improve your mood, ...

In this collection, expert Headspace mindfulness and meditation teachers guide you through seven 25-minute themed walks to help you connect with yourself and the world around you. Each walk is rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction and other therapeutic techniques from Headspace’s teachers and mental health clinicians.

In this collection, expert Headspace mindfulness and meditation teachers guide you through seven 25-minute themed walks to help you process and navigate challenging emotions. Each walk is rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction and other therapeutic techniques from Headspace’s teachers and mental health clinicians.

Brought to you by Penguin. A myth-busting guide to one of the key pillars of health and longevity – walking – by the renowned foot health experts Walking isn’t just a leisurely activity or a form of personal transportation. Its far-reaching benefits – not just for physical health, but...

In this collection, expert Headspace mindfulness and meditation teachers guide you through seven 25-minute themed walks to help you reset, clear your mind, and feel more grounded. Each walk is rooted in mindfulness-based stress reduction and other therapeutic techniques from Headspace’s teachers and mental health clinicians.

52 Ways to Walk is a short, user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walking has to offer--physical, spiritual, and emotional--backed by the latest scientific research to inspire readers to develop a fulfilling walking lifestyle. We think we know how to walk. After all...

Regular walking allows your body to burn more calories, boosting your weight loss and bringing with it a whole host of extra benefits—to both physical and emotional health. In fact, if you were to gradually build just 3 hours of walking into your week, you could lose up to 25 percent more body weight in 12 weeks than you would by dieting alone. There couldn’t be a more straightforward way to lose weight and build fitness. And the beauty is you can tailor it to suit your lifestyle irrespective of age, gender, fitness, wealth, or social positioning.

Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in New York City when alcoholism and drug addiction took over her life. What was once a way she escaped her insecurity and negativity as a teenager became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery.

Born to Walk will help reshape fitness culture to reject flawed and dated "no pain, no gain" ideals, and replace them with a simple, accessible, sustainable program to increase general everyday movement, improve aerobic conditioning the right way, avoid the risks of injury and burnout associated with running, and promote a healthy, happy, energetic, long life–one step at a time.

In Walk Yourself Well, walking expert Nina Barough will teach you how to make the most out of every step – from mastering your technique and setting your pace to walking in different climates and terrains. Go that extra mile, and get inspired, with Nina’s motivational training programs...

By focusing on strengthening your neural pathways in addition to your muscles, you'll finally start seeing improvements in your mobility, energy, and confidence. Dr. Hawley's expertise and experience make her an invaluable resource for anyone with MS looking to improve their quality of life.

Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? Tough Broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must.

This book contains useful information on the exercise of walking and how you can benefit from getting into a daily habit of long walks. You'll learn the most important elements needed to make your walking plan a success.

You can describe what is happening. You just can't name it. You can say he's hot and cold. You can say he's avoidant. You can say "walking on eggshells" and watch your friend's face change, briefly, before she tells you the thing she read on Instagram that didn't apply to him. You have been putting language to this for years and none of it has landed where the actual problem is. The actual problem is not a word you've been missing. It's a pattern — with a shape, a logic, a sequence — that you have not been able to see clearly because you've been inside it too long.

Take control of your health and longevity—one step at a time. In *How to Walk Daily for Longevity*, you’ll discover how one of the simplest and most overlooked habits can radically improve your health, boost your mood, and add vibrant years to your life. You don’t need a gym membership, fancy gear, or complicated plans—just your own two feet and the commitment to move. This inspiring and practical guide is for anyone who wants to age well, feel stronger, and reclaim energy without extreme exercise or burnout. Whether you’re over 50, managing a chronic condition, or simply looking ...

Walk with Ease is a fitness program shown to reduce pain and improve your health. Brought to you by the experts you trust at the Arthritis Foundation, Walk with Ease provides techniques to build and maintain a successful walking program.

Whether you're a beginner just starting out, or a seasoned walker looking to take your fitness to the next level, Walk This Way has got you covered. With easy-to-follow tips, tricks, and workouts tailored specifically to men and women of all ages, this book is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to improve their health and happiness through the power of walking.

This is the story of Carolyn’s mother, her dementia, and how they navigated her journey together. Your loved one may not force feed stuffed animals vanilla pudding or burn their neighbor’s mail like Fay did, but if you’re living through the sad realities of your loved one’s slow and tortuous farewell, this book will help you find solace as you deal with it realistically and with a heart at peace.

More than 60 million people have been in a pathological love relationship with someone who has an impaired conscience. Using the stories of survivors and social psychological research on compliance, cognitive dissonance, and thought control, Why Can't I Just Leave? explains how relationships with pathological partners can create impossible dilemmas that trap you in a distorted dream state and hijack your thoughts and emotions. Learn what those who are conscience-impaired don't want you to know and find out how to wake up and walk out of your partner's invisible prison forever.