ChiWalking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy

Danny Dreyer, Katherine Dreyer

Simon and Schuster, Nov 24, 2009 - Sports & Recreation - 272 pages

From the authors of the bestselling ChiRunning comes a revolutionary program that blends the health benefits of walking with the core principles of T’ai Chi to deliver maximum physical, mental, and spiritual fitness.

The low-impact health benefits of walking have made it one of the most popular forms of daily exercise. Yet few people experience all the benefits that walking can offer.

In ChiWalking, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, teach the walking technique they created that transforms walking from a mundane means of locomotion into an intensely rewarding practice that enhances mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Similar to Pilates, yoga, and T’ai Chi, ChiWalking emphasizes body alignment and mindfulness while strengthening the core muscles of the body.

The five mindful steps of the ChiWalking program will get anyone, regardless of age or athletic ability, into great shape from head to toe, inside and out.

1. Get aligned. Develop great posture and better balance.

2. Engage your core. Make back and knee pain disappear.

3. Create balance. Walk faster, farther, and with less effort.

4. Make a choice. Choose from a menu of twelve great walks such as the Cardio Walk, the Energizing Walk, or the Walking Meditation, to keep your exercise program fresh.

5. Move forward. Make walking any distance a mindful, enjoyable experience, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned walker.

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ChiWalking: the five mindful steps for lifelong health and energy

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Contents

• The Upward Spiral of: 1
• Health Is the Goal Movement ls the Key: 13
• Make a Choice 54: 21
• The Five Mindful Steps: 22
• The ChiSkills: 41
• The Chi Walking Technique: 62
• The Chi Walking Menu: 138
• Creating Your Chi Walking Program: 179
• Welcome to Offroad Walking: 194
• Indoor Walking and the Mindful Treadmill: 222
• Chapter IO Creating Balance in Your Diet: 229
• The Choice Is Yours: 245
• Index 25: 251

Popular passages

Page 11 - Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it . . . but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

About the author

Danny Dreyer, an esteemed walking and running coach, is a nationally ranked ultramarathon runner. He conducts workshops nationwide and lectures frequently at races and events. He is the coauthor, with Katherine Dreyer, of ChiRunning.

Katherine Dreyer has more than thirty years of experience in the health, personal growth, and fitness fields. She partners with Danny to coordinate the international ChiRunning, ChiWalking, and ChiLiving programs.

Bibliographic information

• Title: ChiWalking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy
• Authors: Danny Dreyer, Katherine Dreyer
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2009
• ISBN: 1439188785, 9781439188781
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / General; Sports & Recreation / Running & Jogging; Sports & Recreation / Training; Sports & Recreation / Walking