The Complete Idiot's Guide to Walking for Health - Softcover

Peters, Erika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0028640020 ISBN 13: 9780028640020

Verlag: Alpha, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

New studies show that walking for an hour a day, five days a week, can cut a person's risk of stroke in half. Walking conditions the heart, improves muscle tone, develops strength, relieves stress and eases various health problems. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Walking for Health "walks" readers through an easy, safe and inexpensive way to fitness, discussing the importance of stretching, what clothes to wear, and where to walk safely. The title also offers programs that readers can coordinate their lives around or fit into a busy schedule. Dozens of Websites, magazines and journals are listed as an in-depth resource.

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Erika Peters has a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and has been an avid exerciser all of her life. Her belief in the benefits of health and fitness are so strong that she decided to make a career out of them in 1998. In addition to being a full-time personal trainer at Club One in Oakland, California, Erika has her own private fitness practice in which she takes her knowledge of health and exercise into the homes of residents around the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a certified Fitness Instructor through California State University at Hayward, and holds additional certifications from the American Council on Exercise (ACE) as well as the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). She is currently pursuing her passion of triathlons in which she plans to compete beginning in the spring of 2001. One of her favorite quotes is: "Happiness is a state of activity," by Aristotle.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Alpha
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0028640020
• ISBN 13: 9780028640020
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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