Nordic Walking Poles Revisited
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A recent email is changing the way Dave thinks about using Nordic walking poles as he explains during today's ten-minute walk.
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| 0:00.0 | Not too long ago I did an episode about Nordic walking. |
| 0:10.0 | It was prompted by one morning I was sitting in my home office and my desk is near the window, |
| 0:18.0 | which looks out into our front yard and our street and someone walked by. |
| 0:24.6 | And this is someone that I've seen walking pretty regularly and she walked by and she had the Nordic walking poles. |
| 0:31.6 | And she was using those as she was walking. |
| 0:34.6 | And I had a multitude of thoughts one that really looks interesting |
| 0:41.1 | two I would have a really hard time doing that because it's interesting it's |
| 0:48.0 | unusual it looks different and I don't really like drawing attention to myself while I'm out walking. |
| 0:57.0 | Did some research and found, discovered that Nordic walking is actually a very effective full body workout. |
| 1:07.0 | So when you use those Nordic walking poles, you're actually supersizing walking as a fitness activity. |
| 1:13.6 | Because you're using your upper body, you're burning more calories. |
| 1:19.6 | So if you're using walking as something for weight management or even weight loss, |
| 1:25.6 | using those Nordic walking poles can help that. |
| 1:30.8 | And so I did an entire episode about the Nordic walking poles. |
| 1:35.2 | I know it's not for everyone. |
| 1:37.5 | And right now it's not for me, |
| 1:39.4 | but I wanted you to be aware that here's an option. |
| 1:42.1 | And those polls, by the way, I mean, obviously with most |
| 1:46.4 | things, you could spend a lot of money, but you don't have to. You can actually get some really |
| 1:52.5 | nice Nordic walking poles relatively inexpensively. And there's also a proper technique |
| 1:59.8 | so that if you want to use the Nordic walking poles, |
| 2:03.6 | there's a better way to use those. There's a best way, good better best, so you'll learn the technique |
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