Step Outside: Walking Your Way to Health & Happiness

By Lee Scott

With STEP OUTSIDE, fitness leader and founder of WoW Power Walking, Lee Scott brings to the reader decades of experience helping people find awe, fitness, and health from outdoor walking. This is a book that helps you exceed typical expectations of walking. Consistently underestimated by most fitness professionals, Scott knows from more than 20 years of coaching that walking workouts are effective and accessible. Many people who are otherwise overwhelmed by depictions of workouts involving high impact movement in a traditional gym environment will love this fresh perspective on transforming health and fitness. Connect with her appreciation of the outside world. Be inspired and motivated by suggestions for enjoying the exhilaration of a brisk walk and the mindfulness that comes from bringing attention to specific movement patterns in the walking gait. Scott delights in the profound awe to be experienced in nature and neighborhoods through all seasons as evidenced by her evocative images taken during her own walks. As a coach, she has been thrilled by the success experienced by her clients -- improving both health and happiness. She wants you to be successful, too. Learn her secrets to improving mood, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength, and brain health -- all from the ritual of a daily walk. Positive change requires experiencing success, and Scott helps readers to feel the awe and contentment that flows from simply stepping outside for fresh air. Her encouragement to increase pace and purpose is made easy for you to welcome to a daily walk ritual. Finally, her specific suggestions for how to walk will help those who want to tap into a sense of ease and mindfulness while increasing effort and speed. This book is ideal for people of all fitness levels at any age -- from the person who has never exercised to the active person who has been left with injury after years of high impact sports. Discovering the ease, awe, and exhilaration of a daily walk ritual will surprise and excite you. It may be as life-changing for you as it has been for the author.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1738165272
• ISBN13: 9781738165278
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Plumleaf Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 9.0"