Pacewalking P - Softcover

Jonas, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0517568098 ISBN 13: 9780517568095

Publisher: Crown, 1988

Programs are mapped out for walkers at all levels, with tips on warmups, stretching, equipment, and clothing; and information on clubs and organizations

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From Publishers Weekly:

Even bodybuilders have caught on to the benefits of walking; they call it "power walking." Here, Jonas (Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals, etc.), professor of preventive medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Radetsky (coauthor of Peak Condition) systematize their own adaptation of that aerobic-fitness method, elevating walking to "the Foundation Aerobic SporT: F.A.S.T." With attention to the elderly, injured and pregnant, the innovative pair pinpoint daily and weekly training programs, work-out techniques, equipment, recent nutritional advances and insights on the health-exercise link. For those active in other sports, there is guidance on preparation with the variant "PaceTraining." Emphasized here is the enjoyment of aerobic walking for exercise and health, and an appendix lists walking clubs and organizations nationwide for those "PaceWalkers" who seek the company of others. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

The stories in this collection are powerful, thought-provoking, masterly crafted works. In them, character is something achieved under duress, and endurance is the bywordnot only physical endurance but a certain lonely coming to terms with the spiritual in life. Each story offers a unique depiction of the father-son relationthrough a fateful hunting trip, an obsessive boyhood recolleciton of a snake circus, or several layers of historical and psychological twistswith the focus on the son's maturation or rite of passage. Complexly drawn, each son is the narrative pulse, which is itself often unrelenting in its course. A fine collection.Carol J. Lichtenberg, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
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