Each chapter also includes a good balance of personal anecdotes and scientific studies to hold the reader's attention and make a convincing argument. Things I liked about this book: So many ideas to think about walking in a new way and to keep the simple act of walking from being boring. I love going on walks, and this was a solid book about the science of why different kinds of walks (walks through nature, walks after it rains, walks in the morning, in the evening, etc) are good for you! As a person who walks for both physical and mental health, rather than a particular destination, Annabel Streets' 52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time is both an inspiration, and a revelation.

As I started reading individual walking ideas I became intrigued by some of the things to try while walking such as Afghan breathing.

Dog walkers do this as a matter of course but in my experience, it’s becoming otherwise increasingly rare.

After reading this book, I’ll probably walk in the rain more, walk more errands, and walk while listening to the soundscape. This short, enthusiastic guide extolling walking’s mental and physical benefits, and will motivate you to get outside and move, step by step, all year. An impressively readable book, this is a flexible and quick-paced non-fiction on the many methods and benefits of walking.Walking lowers your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis, improves cholesterol levels, helps you build strong bones and slows any bone loss as you age. Our choice of location, time, direction, duration, walking companion and gait, as well as the weather we opt to walk in, can transform our daily stroll. There is another chapter where the author notes she lost her sense of smell due to COVID but then later in the chapter tells us she went on "smell walks" with the aforementioned lost sense.

Even as I was putting this on reserve at my local library, I strongly suspected that this was going to be one of those Buzzfeed-style listicles padded out into a full book, which I'm a real sucker for because I'm always holding out hope that the next one will be that rare exception and actually justify its page count; but alas, this turned out to be exactly what I suspected, a book that promises to provide creative and interesting ways to change up your daily walking habit every single week throughout a year, but then is filled with silly nonsense like, "Week 3: Take a walk while you smile at people! most: Walk like a nomad, a meditative practice where you sync your steps with your breaths (3 steps breathe in, 1 step hold in, 3 steps breathe out, 1 step hold out) (perhaps even through your nose). Anyhow, this was great, except there were a few chapters that didn’t work for me, like “Walk Backwards,” which feels really impractical and silly. A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation.

I didn't completely finish this because it was due back to the library but I read enough to know that in my case, it was preaching to the choir. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - when people's lives were at stake. So either this book needed another edit to not allow readers to misconstrue these chapters, or the readers are being lied to. Time a 12 minute walk from your front door, and take it as often as you can (without overthinking or overcomplicating anything). s obzirom na sumanutu kilometražu koju svakodnevno prolazim hodajući, nadala sam se da će mi ovaj priručnik unijeti dašak svježine dok, eto, prolazim manje-više istim rutama i na to trošim (ili, ako obrneš: ulažem) sate i sate.