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ChiWalking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy Review

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. Simple to follow steps to improving your main mode of transportation. Very enlightening. I want to take the instructors course and teach others this method.

ChiWalking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy Overview

In ChiWalking, Danny and Katherine Dreyer teach the walking technique they created that takes walking from mundane to deeply rewarding.

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Customer Reviews

Long Winded Way to Say Nothing - D. Person - So. Cal., USA
Kept waiting for this book to tell me something useful. What a waste of time.



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



Chi Walking is a recipe for back pain - J. Defenderfer - Apex, NC USA
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 walk
which stresses many muscles and encourages a hard landing on the foot. Thirdly, he suggests not pushing with the toes which fails to use the right muscles for walking. 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". 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.






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

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