Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Walking

Do you want to get fit, stay healthy and be happy? Then lace up your boots and start walking

Ruth Livingstone was a busy 54-year-old GP, and a committed couch-potato, when she decided to take up long-distance walking. She began hiking the Norfolk Coast Path and loved it so much that, to the shock of her friends and family, she decided to keep going and walk all 5,500 miles of the British Coast.

In this wonderful book, Ruth describes how to plan a coastal walk in England - covering everything you need to know, including how to read a map, what to wear and what (not) to carry,...

This is an attractive, pocket-friendly guide to walks on sixteen of the best trails through preserved open space in Princeton, New Jersey, and its neighboring towns. This revised edition includes eight new walks, several of which have been created on land that has been preserved since the popular guide was originally published in 2009. The walks range from two to four miles, but many include suggestions for trail connections that allow you to extend your hike if you choose. The guide includes detailed color maps of the trails, directions on how to get to them and where to park, and...

Inside Moon 75 Great Hikes Seattle you'll find:

• A Hike for Everyone: Pick the right hike for you with options ranging from short, scenic routes suitable for families, to daylong, steep treks for more ambitious hikers, with options to extend or modify each hike
• Explore the Trails: All hikes are marked with...

Third edition of Cicerone s guide to the Coast to Coast walk popularised by Wainwright. The walk across northern England from St Bees Head in Cumbria to Robin Hood s Bay on Yorkshire s east coast is now one of the most popular long-distance walks in Britain. At 178 miles (300km) long, the trail can be easily walked within a two-week holiday period. The route is based on permitted rights of way and minimises the amount of road walking. The guide includes an accommodation listing.

The guide is in three sections. The first gives the route description, from west to east, annotated as...

I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, borderline diabetes, obesity and being overweight. I lived a busy life, and I didn't have a lot of money. Taking the time to follow a strict diet and exercise routine or paying out a lot of money for a gym membership or personal training was out of the question.

At first, I tried training for a marathon as my younger brother Bobby was a cross country marathon...

With Walking Brooklyn, Adrienne Onofri has created an exceptional guide to and through Brooklyn's most interesting and notable neighborhoods, providing a mix of information about culture, history, architecture, places to eat, venues to visit, and more. From a walk through the Russian-influenced...

In 1938, in the shadow of possible hostilities and long before he became renowned for his 'pictorial guides', Alfred Wainwright decided to go for a walk. This was not just any walk: he chose to walk over 200 miles from Settle to Hadrian's Wall and back. He wrote an account of his trek, Pennine Journey, not as a guidebook but as a commentary on the life and folk of the Dales.

In 1998, as close to the 60th anniversary as possible, A. Walker undertook the same walk and he too wrote an account of the journey and set about producing a guide to the walk using Ordnance Survey maps...

My Mission, and the Pilates-Walk™ goal is to give you lots of helpful

information and exercise tips so that you can find and use the right

muscles when you walk.

Walking is one of the best whole-body wellness activities (when your form

is good). But with poor posture and bad body mechanics even a leisurely

stroll can leave you feeling worse instead of better.

To help you maximize the benefits of your walking technique, I’m going

to share with you some simple common-sense strategies and exercises

that I’ve...

The 32 routes in this guidebook explore the coastline between Sorrento and Amalfi, together with the islands of Capri and Ischia. Ranging from 3km to 11km, the hikes are all designed to be fitted into a single day, with a panoramic picnic stop halfway round and perhaps a plunge into the sparkling Mediterranean at the end. Hikes are graded on a scale of 1-3 and are suitable for a range of abilities, from family strolls to strenuous treks across rugged terrain.

Recognised as a World Heritage Site, the steep southern edge of the Sorrento peninsula on the Gulf of Naples is famous...