Fitness Walking For Dummies

401 Pages·1999·13.28 MB·English

by  Liz Neporent

Fitness Walking For Dummies

by Liz Neporent
Fitness Walking For Dummies®
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About the Author
Liz Neporent is a certified trainer and president of Plus One Health
Management, a fitness consulting company in New York City. Her job is to
make sure that fitness center members at more than a dozen centers in hotels
and corporations throughout New York are happy, motivated, and exercising
on a regular basis.
Liz holds a master’s degree in exercise physiology and is certified by the
American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine, the
National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the National Academy
of Sports Medicine. She is coauthor of the Buns of Steel: Total Body Workout
and Abs of Steel videos and Weight Training For Dummies. She is also the
coauthor of Fitness For Dummies. Additionally, she is the gear editor for
Shape and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She appears
regularly on TV and radio as an authority on fitness and exercise.
Liz is an avid runner, hiker, and walker. She has competed in more than two
dozen marathons and ultra-marathons and once power walked over 40 miles.
She is also devoted to sports climbing, Pilates, and weight training. She lives
in New York City, where she walks to work and takes daily walks with her
husband, Jay Shafran, and her greyhound, Zoomer.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my husband, Jay Shafran, and in loving memory of
Donna Marie McGovern.
Author’s Acknowledgments
Many thanks to my Plus One partners, Jay Shafran, Mike Motta, and Bill
Horne. Thanks also to the entire Plus One staff with special thanks to Grace
De Simone, Holly Byrne, Baze Amiri, Lemont Platt, Bob Welter, Jamie
Macdonald, and Tom Maraday. And, as always, thanks to the individual site
managers for making my job so easy and giving me the time to do all of my
extracurricular projects: John Buzzerio, Shel Bibbey, Kathleen Troy, Jason
Ferrara, Terry Certain, Nancy Ngai, Nancy Belli, Mary Franz, Laura
Girodano, Tom McCann, and Carrie Wujick.
I am indebted to Mitchel Gray, my photographer, and all the models depicted
throughout this book: Nancy Ngai, Shel Bibbey, Terry Certain, Aja Certain,
Annemarie Scarammucia, Melody Fadness, Yvonne Mitchell, Chris Stothard,
Stacy Collins, Val Towne, James Jankiewicz, Jay Shafran, Doris Shafran,
Melissa Saxon, Patty Buttenheim, Sunshine Hopkins, and Jane Scott.
To my parents, sister, brothers, nieces, nephews, and all my in-laws — thanks
for your encouragement. Ditto to my good friends Patty Buttenheim, Gina
Allchin, Norman Zinker, Mary Duffy, and Suzanne Schlosberg. Thanks to
Frank Tirelli, Lucy McGovern, Pam DiPietro, and David Wildstein for
helping out with organization and proofreading.
Thanks also to Jennifer Kries, my Method instructor and good friend, and my
climbing gurus and best buds, Stephen Harris and Ivan Greene. My undying
gratitude to Eli Jacobson for teaching me everything he knows about tax law
and exercise.
A very special thanks to my husband, Jay Shafran, who is without a doubt the
most supportive person on the face of the earth. (Can you please take the dog
for a walk while I finish this up?)
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