Chi Walking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy

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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.

What Customers Say About Chi Walking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy:

Kept waiting for this book to tell me something useful. What a waste of time.

In my opinion, you need a second person to help you learn. He explains it well enough but you need that person to help with the placement of your feet and your posture. This is a good book to learn Chi-walking. Very hard to do it on your own.

Practicing Gokhale's theory and techniques for several weeks has mostly undone the damage and eliminated the pain that "Chi Walking" caused me.If you try "Chi Walking" and it hurts, don't persevere because you've probably already mastered the techniques all too well. Thirdly, he suggests not pushing with the toes which fails to use the right muscles for walking. I persevered with "Chi Walking" techniques long after they caused back pain thinking the pain was caused for some other reason or I just needed to polish the techniques.In retrospect, there much misinformation in this book, but I think there are four errors of advice that affected me negatively the most.Firstly, Dryer suggests walking with a "pelvic tilt" (or retroverted pelvis) that leads to back tension. Secondly, Dryer suggests tilting forward to walkwhich stresses many muscles and encourages a hard landing on the foot. Fourthly, he allows the hands to come forward to the body's center-line which pushes the shoulders too far forward.Gokhale's 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for Pain in the Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Foot (Remember When It Didn't Hurt) describes "Walking as a series of forward propulsions, not falls", which is basically the opposite of "Chi Walking".

This method is completely injury free. I highly recommend this book and methodology. I have the Chi Running Book and have even taken the class and I knew I wanted to understand the Chi Walking technique. I have never been a runner or a great walker and this is enabling me to do both with no pain and definite gain.

Simple to follow steps to improving your main mode of transportation. I want to take the instructors course and teach others this method. Who would have thought that by changing the way you have always walked you could alleviate pain, add to your endurance walking and enjoy this very normal form of movement. Very enlightening.