Walking category: 349 books
by Liz Neporent
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Call it power walking, fitness walking, or just plain walking. Indoors or out, walking is one of the healthiest and most rewarding forms of exercise available to all sorts of people, young and old. In fact, walking burns about the same number of calories per mile as running (and it's a lot easier...
by Gill Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Nordic walking – a specific technique for walking with poles that is far more effective in burning calories and whole-body toning than walking alone – is growing rapidly in the UK and worldwide.
Here at last is a clear, simple guide to help you understand everything you need to know about...
ChiWalking
Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
From the authors of the bestselling ChiRunning comes a revolutionary program that blends the health benefits of walking with the core principles of T’ai Chi to deliver maximum physical, mental, and spiritual fitness.
The low-impact health benefits of walking have made it one of the most popular...
A Walking Life
Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
For readers of On Trails: an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it
"I'm going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone...
Wanderlust
A History of Walking
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Men Explain Things to Me
Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit...
by Helen Fairbairn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Wild Atlantic Way follows the magnificent west coast of Ireland, passing golden beaches, thrusting headlands and soaring sea cliffs. Renowned walking-guide author Helen Fairbairn explores the best walking routes of the region, recommending trips to uninhabited islands, coastal mountains and much...
The Long Road Turns to Joy
A Guide to Walking Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
One of the few books focused completely on mindful walking and walking meditation. This revised edition of the best-selling title (nearly 80,000 copies sold to date) includes over 30 percent new material—including new walking meditation poems and practices—and provides a practical and inspirational...
Walking Salt Lake City
34 Tours of the Crossroads of the West, spotlighting Urban Paths, Historic Architecture, Forgotten Places, and Religious and Cultural Icons
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A new title in the Walking series, Walking: Salt Lake City is geared to first-time visitors to Salt Lake City--and to local residents. Both will enjoy the history and tales about places they thought they knew, and will be surprised to find walking destinations they may not have considered before.
Each...
This Step Home
Simple Guide to Walking Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Walking meditation has been practiced for centuries in many parts of the world. Some practices are strict and ritualized, others more free and easy.
In “This Step Home”, writing directly from his half-century of meditation practice, Jeff Falconer provides step-by-step instruction...
by Erika Peters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
You're no idiot, of course. You've been meaning to get on track to a happier, healthier life, and you've heard that walking burns the same amount of calories as jogging. But your path, while paved with good intentions, is also filled with roadblocks-like too little energy, or too many unwholesome...
On Walking
A guide to going beyond wandering around looking at stuff
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Phil Smith of Wrights & Sites' fame is not the first to walk in the footsteps of W.G. Sebald, whose The Rings of Saturn is an account a walk round Suffolk 20 years ago.
What *is *remarkable is that Phil's own walk was quite as extraordinary as Sebald's and that he matches Sebald's...
Walking for Fitness
The Beginner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Walking is the most popular physical activity in North America, and for good reason: it can be done by people of all ages and all levels of physical ability, the risk of injury is low, and it doesn't require a carload of expensive equipment. Best of all, brisk walking for just 30 minutes four times...
Mindful Walking
Walk Your Way to Mental and Physical Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Six million years ago, the evolving human brain existed only to instruct our bodies to move. In Mindful Walking, psychologist Hugh O'Donovan takes us back to this very basic connection between the brain and the body, and looks at how, by focussing on the simple act of moving, we can achieve better...
by Jane V. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Wouldn't you love to go on an adventure and find that it was more than what you expected? That’s what happened to Jane V. Blanchard when she walked the Hadrian’s Wall Path, and what she wants to share with you in the this book. Join her as she walks eighty-four miles across northern England, explore...