Walking: The Ultimate Exercise For Optimum Health

Weil, Andrew; Fenton, Mark

ISBN 10: 1591794099 ISBN 13: 9781591794097

Publisher: Sounds True, 2006

Synopsis

Two Experts Set the Pace for Optimum Health with This Take-Anywhere Walking Workout Session. Andrew Weil, M.D. & Mark Fenton. Most of us enjoy walking, but not everyone knows how to turn this simple exercise into one of the most powerful self-healing tools known to medicine. On Walking: The Secret to Optimum Health, Dr. Andrew Weil joins Mark Fenton, the nation's foremost expert on walking, for an invigorating 2-CD program that gives listeners all the tools needed to begin a daily walking practice. On Part One, Dr. Weil and Mark Fenton explain the proven ways in which walking helps you look and feel younger, reduce stress, improve immune function, achieve your ideal weight, and more. On Part Two, listeners get walking with a fully programmable workout that features two warm-up options and five intensifying sessions, paced by cadence cues and motivating tips for each phase.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Weil, one of America's best known advocates of alternative medicine and holistic healing, attended Harvard Medical School. He has worked for the National Institute of Mental Health and the Harvard Botanical Museum. He is the founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center and Associate Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine, University of Arizona. Weil's books include Spontaneous Healing and Natural Health and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.

From AudioFile:

Between Dr. Weil's conviction that walking is the best exercise and Fenton's upbeat dismissal of objections, procrastinators won't have a chance. How can you argue that you lack 60 minutes a week to improve your health? Weil and Fenton (an expert on walking) explain how walking is a "silver bullet," addressing health issues from obesity to diabetes to osteoporosis. Weil has a wonderful way of sounding as though he's talking extemporaneously without ever repeating himself, and coach Fenton is so irrepressibly upbeat and enthusiastic that you can't help but feel like lacing up your sneakers. The first CD offers persuasive facts about the health benefits of walking; the second includes a workout with audible pace cues that set different tempos for different levels of walks. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Sounds True
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1591794099
• ISBN 13: 9781591794097
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 2