Slow Jogging: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy and Have Fun with Science-Based, Natural Running.
by Hiroaki Tanaka and Magdalena Jackowska (2016) In stark contrast to the current trend for intense interval training, this book offers a very gentle introduction to achieving cardio vascular fitness, weight-loss and a host of other useful physical and mental outcomes. Given the slow burn approach, this method would involve greater time commitment than interval training, but at the outset at least, is almost certainly less painful and the eventual results seem pretty impressive if the numerous testimonies are to be believed. If nothing else, the book is likely to ensure that you are getting your running posture right, and it offers a number of other useful parameters for calculating whether you are doing the requisite amount of work. Having owned a Fitbit for about three weeks now, I've found jogging/running to be the quickest way to raise the heart beat to fat burn, cardio and finally peak levels, and although this method suggests that you only take your heart...