Hike for Health & Fitness: Slim Down, Shape Up, and Reconnect with Nature

by John McKinney

Overview

Get Healthier Outdoors. Take a Hike!
Look and feel better, one step at a time. Hiking Expert John McKinney shows you how to fit hiking into your busy life.

Learn the "Ten Ways Hiking Improves Your Health" and why a walk in nature is better for you than a walk in the city.
Find out how to select the right hiking gear and apparel, choose a trail and set your pace, get fit and have fun.
Go from feeling stressed to feeling blessed. Discover the best ways to restore body, mind and spirit.
Complete with The Trailmaster's Hiking Fitness Program.

Contents:

Hike for the Health of It
New Studies Show Hiking is Good for You
Ten Ways Hiking Improves Health
The Walking-Hiking Connection
Nature Heals and Reveals
Gearing Up
Find a Trail and Use It
The Path to Improved Fitness
The Trailmaster's Hiking Fitness Program
Hiking Puts More Spring in Your Step

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148934752
Publisher:	The Trailmaster/Olympic Press
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	106
Sales rank:	843,818
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John McKinney is the author of 25 books about hiking, parklands and nature, including The Hiker's Way and A Walk Along Land's End: Dispatches from the Edge of California on a 1,600-mile hike from Mexico to Oregon.
HIKE Smart and HIKE for Health & Fitness are among the titles in The Trailmaster's Minibuk series, designed to give hikers the information they need in an engaging and easily accessible way.

For 18 years, he wrote a weekly hiking column for the Los Angeles Times, and has hiked and enthusiastically described more than ten thousand miles of trail across America and around the world. John, a.k.a.The Trailmaster, has written more than a thousand articles about hiking plus numerous trail guidebooks, including Southern California: A Day Hiker's Guide and Day Hiker's Guide to California's State Parks.

A passionate advocate for hiking and our need to reconnect with nature, John McKinney shares his expertise on radio, TV, online, and as a public speaker.