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Nordic Walking helps reducing weight

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  • 04-08-2009 8:05am
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    SereneWanderer
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    Anybody interested in Nordic Walking? The health benefits are substantial, the technique is easy to be learned.

    :: Reduce weight
    :: Maintain good health
    :: Release pain in back & neck
    :: Prevent diabetes, obesity, arthrosis
    :: More efficient than normal walking
    :: Practise your whole body
    :: Improve strengh and flexibility

    The will be a Nordic Walking weekend break for beginners Fri 21st to Sun 23rd August 2009 in Glengarriff, West Cork. Learn the technique to benefit best from healthy pole walking. Info: markus@wanderlust.ie

    Read more about Nordic Walking: click here
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    104494431
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    SereneWanderer wrote: »
    Anybody interested in Nordic Walking? The health benefits are substantial, the technique is easy to be learned.

    :: Reduce weight
    :: Maintain good health
    :: Release pain in back & neck
    :: Prevent diabetes, obesity, arthrosis
    :: More efficient than normal walking
    :: Practise your whole body
    :: Improve strengh and flexibility

    The will be a Nordic Walking weekend break for beginners Fri 21st to Sun 23rd August 2009 in Glengarriff, West Cork. Learn the technique to benefit best from healthy pole walking. Info: markus@wanderlust.ie

    Read more about Nordic Walking: click here

    Prevent diabetes? Doesn't any form of exercise combined with a healthy diet prevent diabetes?

    Practise your whole body? What does that actually mean?

    If it's more efficient than normal walking then doesn't that mean that an equivalent distance of walking would burn more calories and therefore be better for losing weight?


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    SereneWanderer
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    104494431 wrote: »
    Prevent diabetes? Doesn't any form of exercise combined with a healthy diet prevent diabetes?

    Practise your whole body? What does that actually mean?

    If it's more efficient than normal walking then doesn't that mean that an equivalent distance of walking would burn more calories and therefore be better for losing weight?

    Thanks for asking back. Indeed any form of serious exercise will have the effect re: diabetes. Pole walking includes exercising all parts of the upper body. Research found out that conventional walking practises 60 - 70 percent of your body´ s muscle mass while nordic walking does more than 90 percent.

    We are used to compare efficiency time-related. Let´s say you compare a one hour walk to a one hour nordic walk and you will benefit more from pole walking in the same time. (If you look at it distance-related, you can walk the same distance at the same speed and still use your poles actively to increase your heart rate significantly compared to conventional walking).

    As pole walking intensifies the exercise when using the poles actively, the heart rate is usually higher (without neccessairily accelerating), the calories consumption exceeds that of conventional walking by 20 to 30 percent. Fat burning process is intensified as well.


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