Getting My Bounce Back: How I Got Fit, Healthier, and Happier (And You Can, Too) (Adversity Book, Healthy Aging, Running, Weight Loss, for Fans of Mind to Matter)

Female, Fit and Fifty

Exercise is not optional: You don’t have to run a marathon to be fit and healthy or suffer through a triathlon that includes a half-mile swim in the ocean. But you do need an exercise habit. Especially as we age, exercise is not optional. Yet unless we had been athletes as kids or young adults, and few of us were, we do not know how to find our edge. Learning how to carve out time to meet our fitness needs or to push ourselves physically and mentally is one of the greatest challenges to aging well.

Finding the inspiration to exercise: Inspired by her highly popular blog “Be the Dog”, Carolee Belkin Walker's Getting My Bounce Back is a relatable story of what it’s like to be a successful professional woman encountering all things fitness for the first time. Even if readers have never put on a pair of running shoes or tried again and again to get a fitness habit, they’ll relate to the highs and lows of Walker’s journey to the back of the pack and ultimately stumbling on a path to resilience and well-being.

Happier more confident woman: You could fit two of Walker inside what her body looked like in February 2014. But it is the powerful sense of confidence and resilience that’s had the greatest impact on Walker and inspires others. This book is about Walker digging in, discovering who she is, and seeing how far she can push herself to be strong, fit, healthy, and most important, resilient. Her writing is full of humorous situations as she decides to be an active participant in life and not take the setbacks, or herself, too seriously.

Benefits of reading Getting My Bounce Back:

• Learn how to make time for exercise
• Get inspired to get fit
• Learn how you can be more confident and happier

Carolee Belkin Walker is a wellness blogger and freelance journalist whose work appears in the Washington Post, Women’s Running, the Huffington Post, and Thrive Global. She lives in Washington, D.C. http://caroleewalker.com/

Sarajean Rudman, host of the RunYogi.Run and thirtyISH podcasts, has more than a decade of experience in health and wellness. A 500-hour Kripalu Ayurvedic yoga teacher and an Ayurvedic practitioner based in Connecticut, Rudman teaches at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, where she heads up the yoga and running program, and is a presenter at Wanderlust events. Rudman has advanced degrees in health and wellness and coaching as well as in health sciences and integrative clinical nutrition. https://www.balastrong.com/