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Summary: New Pedometer-Based Approach to Increasing Physical Activity
Review: Manpo-kei, a creative, scientifically based practical guide to increasing physical activity using pedometers, is not only easy and fun to read, it is very informative. With obesity and physical inactivity levels on the rise, finding unique ways to get people moving for a lifetime is critical. Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke, a renowned researcher at Arizona State University and lifestyle physical activity advocate, has done just that in this inspired book. Manpo-kei provides knowledge, tools, and strategies to make informed, personal choices about physical activity using pedometers as a guide. More specifically, Dr. Tudor-Locke presents background as to why inactivity is such a widespread problem, discusses pedometer selection and use (including a shopping checklist for purchasing a pedometer), and offers a user-friendly, theoretically based approach to goal setting and tracking step counts for the lifetime. She provides activity and tracking calendars, as well worksheets where readers are encouraged to answer questions pertaining to their personal activity behaviors and are asked to reexamine their step goals and experiences to make necessary adjustments to maintain activity. In addition, Dr. Tudor-Locke dispels the myth that 10,000 steps per day is for everyone. Step goals are personal and should reflect beginning step counts as well as personal health and/or fitness goals. Her "More Than Before" concept toward goal setting considers the importance of individualized step goals that will elicit benefits as well as sustainability. What I like best about this book is the approach. The underlying theme about being more physically active by making informed choices, setting personal pedometer step goals, and tracking progress is discussed in entertaining and simple terms. The fact that the material is based on Dr. Tudor-Locke's personal experiences, professional knowledge, and her own research findings demonstrates the credibility, relevance, and effectiveness of the outlined techniques. Readers, and hopeful new pedometer users, can easily relate the information in Manpo-kei to their personal lives in a way that will provide the impetus to adopt a naturally physically active lifestyle over the long term. It is without hesitation that I recommend this book to those who want to learn more about an exciting and practical new approach to human movement.
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Summary: A "Step-by-step" Guide to an Active Lifestyle
Review: Searching for a simple way to increase your level of physical activity? Confused and overwhelmed by the number and variety of "get-fit-quick" programs available? Well, look no further than Manpo-kei: The Art and Science of Step Counting. Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke provides you with the tools and skills to start you on the road to enjoying an active lifestyle. So, buy this book and you'll be taking the first "step" toward looking and feeling better!
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Summary: A "Step-by-step" Guide to an Active Lifestyle
Review: Searching for a simple way to increase your level of physical activity? Confused and overwhelmed by the number and variety of "get-fit-quick" programs available? Well, look no further than Manpo-kei: The Art and Science of Step Counting. Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke provides you with the tools and skills to start you on the road to enjoying an active lifestyle. So, buy this book and you'll be taking the first "step" toward looking and feeling better!
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Summary: pure nonsense
Review: well, it done seem the American female appetite for nonsense is growing heartier by the day. You take your average American woman. The idea of getting exercise by walking around alot... it just don't compute. But if you tell em the Japanese invented it and they got a speshul word for it and its all about this magic number 10,000 and this Japanese genius came up with it all and that's why the Japanese are so frigging fit... well, the average no-common-sense American just eats it up, she does. She done read a article in Vague magazine. Allabout how this 10,000 steps bs is real scientific, like.
Look, lets cut the (...) here, okay peeepul? First of all, there is no "science" behind this whatsoever. If you walk 10,000 steps a day... great. But you will not at all necessarily be getting any but bone exercise. Your bone density may improve, but if you do not walk above a snail's pace - like my idiotic mother-in-law - you will not A) gain any muscle and B) have any cardio-vascular improvement. Any exercise must be vigorous in order to matter. That is why it is not legitimate to count every step you take. The twenty or so steps you take between the kitchen and the couch simply do not add up to any exercise and so if you count them you are basically just wanting something for nothing. Also, even if you walk very vigorously, you will only be exercising your bones and your legs. Your upper body will be unaffected. And listen, honeybabe: I've lived in Japan and the Japanese... well, I hate to break it to ya but... they're just not very fit, d'you see. Health clubs in Japan... they're not real popular. The Japanese smoke like chimneys, drink like fish, live like sardines and we are supposed to be taking our cues from THEM about how to stay in shape? America is the fittest nation on earth, for chrissake. Why don't we start taking cues from the Japanese about how to win World War II and how to win the race to the A bomb?
Look, what I'm tryina tell you, cookiedoll,is that you should not be such a sucker for vague new-age packaging. If you want to get in shape, do some actual exercise, rather than pretending that 10,000 is a magical number and pushing your shopping cart around at the market is some kind of decathalon. But what am I saying? YOu know this is all crapola or you wouldn't be interested in it. Oh, and listen. You've perhaps been hearing about how everybody and their brother owns a pedometer in Japan, how the whole country is loco for walking? (...). When I lived there, in the nineties, I never encountered one single hint of walking enthusiasm or pedometers. The only local resident who seemed to be doing a lotta walking around was me. How do I account for the fact that seven million pedometers are sold in Japan every year? This is a made-up statistic. (...)
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