Slow Jogging: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Have Fun with Science-Based, Natural Running

Inspirational, motivational and informational. Must read book for those who care for their health and longevity.

Excellent book on slow running/jogging! Covers everything from what slow jogging is and why and how to begin doing it, to how to apply it for preparing for races, including a marathon, to how and why experienced runners should incorporate slow jogging into their training schedule. Every runner needs to read this book! When you finish reading this book, I recommend reading another book, available here on Amazon, called "Run For Your Life" by Mark Cucuzzella. The two books complement each other nicely.

I actually hate running, but Dr. Tanaka shows that you can get the same benefits by slow jogging. I hope I can make slow jogging a permanent habit.

I used to slow jog around 4 miles every morning with longer runs over the weekend. Very slow and every single day. Such comfortable shuffles that I never needed to take rest days. I am sure I could have slow jogged for hours and much further than my general Saturday 8-10 miles. I always just felt like a slow runner but, instead, I'm a trendy and hip slow jogger. This is a very useful, motivational, and friendly book that I very much enjoyed. I feel really motivated to get out there for a slow hour every single morning. You should, too. It's easy. Or should be. Done be embarrassed when you're passed by walkers.I used to slow jog around 4 miles every morning with longer runs over the weekend. Very slow and every single day. Such comfortable shuffles that I never needed to take rest days. I am sure I could have slow jogged for hours and much further than my general Saturday 8-10 miles. I always just felt like a slow runner but, instead, I'm a trendy and hip slow jogger. Slow Jogging is a very useful, motivational, and friendly book that I very much enjoyed. I feel really motivated to get out there for a slow hour every single morning. You should, too. It's easy. Or should be. Don't be embarrassed when you're passed by walkers even if they're recently-pregnant mums pramming past you with your brand new babies. How quickly you slow jog, be it a slow shuffle or a quickstepped, ball-of-your-feet, bopping along, really depends on how quickly or slowly you need to run in order to keep smiling, not get injured, and maintain the ability to chat without being out of breath. This is completely relative. One man's Niko Niko, low-heart-rate, slow jog, can be much slower or faster than another—and both are absolutely perfect! And, that pace and speed and distance per hour of effort should organically increase naturally as your body becomes more fit, stronger, more durable, and your heart and lungs and quads and calves and feet become more naturally used to the trauma and battering that running can inflict on a body that's not used to moving quickly. Slow jogging solves it by saying that there is no such thing as too slow. That you can shuffle along on your forefeet even slower than mums walking their toddlers and that's OK. No shame. As long as you're out there putting in the time on the road, even if that doesn't even break a sweat or leave you panting (that's good!). I have slow-jogged as slowly as 16:00 minute miles and sometimes 13:00 minute miles. And sometimes faster but I don't even really care about that.

I will give this book 3 stars and hate to be a party pooper. This book doesn't offer much more than the youtube videos. It provides all kinds of background and historical information about jogging. What is lacks is a bit of guidance based on who are you and what are your goals. I am glad to give them $12 for kindle version but I'd love a bit more practical advice.

Well laid out program for fitness.

Slowing down is a message more runners need to adopt. This book provides very compelling information about the positive benefits to very slow running, much of it supported by research (cited), something most other sources lack. Very interesting stuff, and quite persuasive. The book really helped me understand why I find slow running so pleasurable, even though I'm a competitive age-group runner.Most runners find slowing down very difficult, both biomechanically and psychologically. This book does a great job with the biomechanical and physiological component, but lacks the psychological help some runners might find useful to get them to make piece with slowing down. (Brad Kearns's "Breakthrough Triathlon Training" has one of the better sections on the topic).Fun read, and certainly one of the better books on the topic, though there are, really, very few.

An encouraging book for people like me who choose not to run fast. The authors show that there is a scientific basis for feeling good about running slowly. I was hoping for more pace tables and training guides from 5 k to marathon. Maybe the authors assume that the reader will use existing plans but go on their own pace. I was also hoping for some more guidance on how the authors train on their fast days. There are a few typos / editing errors in the Kindle version, but nothing significant. Overall, a great book that shows that people who run slowly are not less athletic; they will end up being healthier in the long term.