Pace yourself

American Fitness, Sept-Oct, 2004

Need a little inspiration to pick up the pace when you're walking? If so, checkout Maggie Spilner's walking cassettes: Swing Your Way to Weight Loss and Power Up Your Stride.

Swing Your Way to Weight Loss includes 60 minutes of walking music, such as Happy Feet and Sunny Side of the Street, that take you through a warm-up, workout and cool-down. Spilner offers coaching tips to improve your posture and an introduction to interval training to boost your speed and reduce fat.

In Power Up Your Stride, patriotic marches, anthems and ballads (the ultimate walking music) and Spilner's coaching provide motivation. A warm-up includes exercises to build strong calves and shins, which are essential to comfortably increase pace and distance.

The music selections support your stride in perfect walking rhythm, while engaging your emotions with familiar, inspiring tunes. They were recorded live in the studio under the direction of walking-music experts Karen and James Sundquist.

Maggie Spilner was Prevention magazine's walking editor for 17 years and is the author of Prevention's Complete Book of Walking For Health. She now leads her own walking tours in Pennsylvania, England and Switzerland.

You can purchase the cassettes for $11.95 each at (888) 972-9255 or www.maggiespilner.com.