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, walking is one of the very first skills we learn. But many of us are stuck in our walking routines, forever walking in the same place, in the same way, for the same time, with the same people. With its thought-provoking and evidence-backed weekly walk routine, 52 Ways to Walk will encourage everyone to improve how they walk, while also encouraging them to seek out new locations (many on their own doorsteps), new walking companions (our brains age better when we mix up our fellow walkers), new times of the day and night, and new skills to acquire while walking.
Inspirational, backed by science, illuminated with human anecdote, and bolstered with how-to tips, 52 Ways to Walk will inspire, challenge, support, and encourage everyone to become more ambitious with their walking practice, revealing how walking may be the best-kept secret of the supremely healthy and happy, the creative and well-slept–those with the best posture and sharpest memories. Just about everything, it appears, can be improved and enhanced by clever and judicious walking. It turns out you actually can get more from life, one step at a time.
Author(s): Streets, Annabel
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: User-friendly guide Walking for Wellness and Joy, week by week
Pages: 288
Tags: User-friendly guide Walking for Wellness and Joy, week by week
Introduction
How to Use This Book
WEEK 1Walk in the Cold
WEEK 2Improve Your Gait
WEEK 3Walk, Smile, Greet, Repeat
WEEK 4Just One Slow Walk
WEEK 5Breathe As You Walk
WEEK 6Take a Muddy Walk
WEEK 7Take a Twelve-Minute Walk
WEEK 8Walk With Vista Vision
WEEK 9Take a Windy Walk
WEEK 10Walk Within an Hour of Waking
WEEK 11Take a City Smell Walk
WEEK 12Walk in the Rain
WEEK 13Take a Walk-Dance or a Dance-Walk
WEEK 14Walk With Your Ears
WEEK 15Walk Alone
WEEK 16Pick Up Litter As You Walk
WEEK 17Follow a River
WEEK 18Walk With a Dog
WEEK 19Amble Amid Trees
WEEK 20Walk to Remember
WEEK 21Exercise Your Curiosity Muscle – Walk a Ley Line
WEEK 22Take a Silent Stroll
WEEK 23Walk at Altitude
WEEK 24Walk With a Map
WEEK 25Walk With Purpose
WEEK 26Walk in Sunshine
WEEK 27Sing As You Stride
WEEK 28Walk With a Picnic
WEEK 29Walk Barefoot
WEEK 30Walk With Ions
WEEK 31Walk Beside the Sea
WEEK 32Walk in Water
WEEK 33Sketch As You Walk
WEEK 34Walk Beneath a Full Moon
WEEK 35Walk Like a Nomad
WEEK 36Walk With a Pack
WEEK 37Take a Foraging Walk
WEEK 38Climb Hills
WEEK 39Walk With Your Nose
WEEK 40Walk Like a Pilgrim
WEEK 41Walk to Get Lost
WEEK 42Walk After Eating
WEEK 43Walk With Others
WEEK 44Seek Out the Sublime
WEEK 45Work As You Walk
WEEK 46Take a Night Walk
WEEK 47Jump-Start Your Walk for Super-Strong Bones
WEEK 48Walk Hungry
WEEK 49Walk Backwards
WEEK 50Walk in an Evergreen Forest (for a Good Night’s Sleep)
WEEK 51Walking As Meditation
WEEK 52Walk Deep and Seek Out Fractals
Afterword
Recommended Reading
Acknowledgements
Notes
Note on the Author
