Walking, Weight and Wellness

About the Book

Walking, Weight and Wellness is more than a book about walking, it's about living at the height of your powers and rediscovering the lifestyle our culture has stolen away. Walking is good for your mind, your muscles, your cardiovascular system and your life. On the left hand pages you will find the wit, wisdom and inspiration of some of the greatest thinkers and leaders in history who saw walking as indispensable. The right hand pages will provide practical, proven programs for getting your feet back on the street, the trails or the treadmill.

You will be introduced to the life-saving concept of 10,000 steps a day and provided with authoritative information about selecting a reliable pedometer for your step counting. Virtual walks, such as 'Circle Canada' and 'Route 66' will transform your steps into cities and scenery.

The problem of overweight and obesity are dealt with head-on with a crystal clear explanation of the ebb and flow of calories. You will be shown how to walk away from weight and how walking will help you maintain your goal weight.

Walking can play a major role in workplace wellness, being good for employer and employee alike. Fitter employees are absent less often, are more productive, have fewer accidents and make fewer mistakes giving walking incentive programs a great return on investment (ROI) for the employer and a great return on life (ROL) to the participant.

There is incontrovertible evidence that fit, healthy children perform better academically than their unfit peers. Walking, Weight and Wellness looks at creative ways to restore the activity to schools that has been lost in the name of safety and convenience.

This book offers expert guidance on total body health and builds to the final inspirational chapters to be your own hero and take on the unique mind/body program The Power of Fifteen.

About the Author

Martin has a rich and interesting background and the many strands from his academic and professional career have been woven together to create Walking, Weight and Wellness. He has a Ph.D. in exercise physiology from Stanford University and, while in California, also coached swimming and worked with many Olympic medal winners and world record holders.

He wrote the first North American book on Employee Fitness and the Canadian Government's weight management book, The Phacts of Life. He was the co-creator of PAR-Q (Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire), which is widely used as a screening tool for people entering exercise programs. Martin represented the President's Council on Physical Fitness to promote workplace wellness throughout the USA and his contributions have been recognized by the White House and the Prime Minister of Canada.

Currently his passion is to promote physical activity and lifestyle artistry throughout North America. He does this as a highly entertaining keynote speaker, through his online webzine, Well, as a singer/songwriter with a recorded repertoire of wellness related songs, as a promoter of worksite walking and wellness and now with Walking, Weight and Wellness.

Martin currently resides in Victoria, BC with his wife Nancy and Susie the cat and is ever mindful of the words of Marianne Moore that, to miss the joy is to miss it all.