Book 1 – The 30 Day Plan just about anyone can use to get moving again
This is for anyone struggling to get moving again in order to improve their fitness, reclaim their health and grab their lives back.
And this is even more important if you’ve already tried to get active again only to grind to a halt as you find out how tough it can be.
You need to know that there are a number of reasons why it is so hard to get moving again, especially in the first few weeks when most people will give up.
There is another harsh lesson here. You see, it doesn’t matter if this is the first time you’ve ever tried to get fit, or if you were super fit back in the day.
Either way, exercising again after leading a sedentary lifestyle even for just a couple of years, and sometimes even just months, can be so hard for all of us. And building regular exercise back into our busy lives is harder still.
I know how hard it feels as you start out, but you need to know that you can do this.
It isn’t just tough mentally to try and get moving again. We might also struggle to carve out the time we need from busy schedules. We also have to overcome physical barriers that can creep up on us almost unnoticed.
There are so many things that can cause us to stumble and grind to a halt.
So this plan is designed to get you through the first 30 days, to clear those hurdles that blocked you before and break through the invisible barriers that seemed to make it almost a mission impossible.
There is one simple goal here:
To Get You Moving Again – in 30 Days
Heart-rated Training and Why Walking Works
The Plan explains how you will start off just walking. You might find it hard to believe that walking could help you get fit again. And I can understand the scepticism. I mean, is walking even considered exercise?
But you won’t be just walking! You will walking in a specific way to utilise the principles of Heart-rated Training. You see:
It is not how fast you go that improves your fitness, it is the metabolic effect you create
So you don’t have to walk or run as fast as an Olympic athlete, you just have to go fast enough to create the desired metabolic effect.
Furthermore, starting out, the desired metabolic effect we are after is actually quite moderate and easily attained just walking at a brisk pace. The metabolic effect we are after can have a remarkable impact on your fitness if you manage it correctly. And this plan shows you how to do exactly that.
And yes, you really can create that desired metabolic effect just walking.
How Does the Plan Work?
First of all, this short book explains in some detail just why it can be so hard to get moving again. I found that understanding the reasons why things were so difficult, especially the physiological factors, helped me to finally move past them. And I hope this works for you too.
Next the book explains how you can use Heart-rated Training. There is a simple but very effective breathing technique that just works. It works if you are just starting out or if you are an Olympic Athlete. This means that just about anyone can use it effectively, so you can use it with confidence.
Then The Power of Walking shows you:
- How to get started with the most natural exercise for all of us, Walking
- How to easily fit this into your regular life
- How you can progress to training like an athlete, just walking!
If you can walk, then you can do this.
The Power of Walking – The 30 Day Plan that shows you how to get moving again
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One Surprising Advantage You Have
Just in case you are feeling a bit overwhelmed and worried that this might be too much, there is one piece of news that should cheer you up.
Whilst it is true that Heart-rated Training works for everyone across the fitness spectrum, from beginners right up to Olympic Athletes,
It is also true that it is the beginners who will see the biggest gains
Your body is waiting to be fired up again. Your body is designed to move and will respond. So what are you waiting for?
What Happens on Day 31?
Now The Power of Walking isn’t going to turn everything around in 30 days, obviously. But this short book can help change your direction of travel right around. Then you can use your new found energy as a springboard to aim for whatever it is you want to do.
As Day 30 approaches take a moment to see how much progress you have made. You’re not “just walking”, you’re now training and getting fitter and healthier every week. You are already on your new journey back to health & fitness.
So don’t hang about, use this momentum to take on your next challenge. You might have something already all lined up, maybe a goal like:
- “10,000 Steps a day” or “Couch to 5k”
- Joining a local Walking or Running Group
- Re-joining your old sports club
- Signing up at the gym to start Weight Training again
So whatever you do, set yourself some small achievable goals and just start!
And if you want to try the next level that I used on my journey to get Firefighter Fit, then you can always check out:
Walk | Run | Train
Whatever you decide to do, just move straight onto it, your body will love you for it.
A Great Plan for Rehabilitation
I have a confession to make: I just didn’t appreciate how powerful this Plan can be until I fell victim to a series of setbacks starting in October 2021 through to July 2022.
To summarise, I aggravated an old back injury not once but twice through the winter months. And spent a month each time flat on my back. So my fitness had fallen away a lot but I was still able to run the RatRace Event in early May ’22.
But I took a tumble on an obstacle, injuring my lower right leg. Thinking it was just a bruise (well a severe bruise) and a cut, I didn’t get it seen to straight away at the event. I thought I could sort it out myself. But a week or 10 days went by and I could barely walk on it, so I ended up at the hospital.
- It was a bit more than a bruise, it was a hairline fracture and it was now infected so I had to keep the weight off it for however many weeks. In other words I was now immobilised.
- The cut was much worse than I thought. It should have been stitched up straight away.
- I was given treatment for the infection. But it just got worse and I needed much stronger antibiotics. Then I had a violent allergic reaction to the new antibiotics. I wasn’t just immobilised, I was now bed bound for a month and on the verge of being hospitalised.
- Just as things were turning around I then went down with COVID. So I was bed bound for some more weeks.
The long and short of it is that by the end of that July, I was just about back to where I started all those years ago. As August rolled around, the only exercise I could manage was a brisk walk, again! And even that was a real struggle.
So I started my own 30 Day Plan all over again. My recovery was much quicker than the first time around. But the important thing was that I was able:
To Get Moving Again
And I could get moving without any risk of straining muscles or pounding joints. I just used the breathing technique to keep in the right metabolic zone, trusted the process and the fitness came back really quickly.
In fact, by October I was able to run in a local event, a hilly 10 k race run alongside a half marathon. And by November I was well on the road back to my previous levels of fitness and health. All thanks to The Power of Walking.
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