Excellent video thank you very much. I have Parkinson’s and I’ve been prescribed to do Nordic pole walking. I’ve been looking at videos for over six months and this is the best one to explain in detail what I need to be doing and what I shouldn’t be doing. Again, thanks this is greatly added to my quality of life
Hello there I walked nordic walking 20 years before I walked barefoot since 5 years. Now I walk both together. Nordic walking corrected my body position. I walk now with straight back. Great from Albania🍀🏔🦶
Thank you both for this video. As a jogger and a rope-jumper for 40+ years, I was looking for something different and read an article on nordic-walking. I purchased an inexpensive set of poles which, despite their price, appear of great quality...solid, adjustable length, wrist straps, handle-grips and extra rubber tips for mud. I must admit that walking with them feels strangely awkward at first! Thanks again,
This was helpful. I was placing my poles very far forward like I was nordic skiing (leaning forward a bit) but I see I need to stand up straight a lot more when walking.
I notice the woman HOLDing onto her poles as she walked up to the camera in the very beginning. I just saw another "how to" video that said DO NOT have a grasp on the poles. I'm sure when I watch 5 I'll see 5 different contradictions. :-(
On a 45m walk i used poles. Good help up hill, on flat ground, helps keep up pace. Hard on the hands between thumb and index finger. Saves approx 2-5% (imo) energy and you arrive less tired. Eventually I abandoned the poles because of the pain in the hands.
Don’t grip the handles too tightly, just lightly hold the pole with your thumb and forefinger. The straps around your wrists will keep the poles in place.
I'm having issues with the wrist straps on the Nordixx Walker. I removed the straps to wash them bc they got really sweaty but I can't figure out how to put them back together. You showed how to work with the traveler and adjust the wrist strap, removing it and replacing it, but didn't touch on the former. I really need some help and can't find any online anywhere. Are there any directions for working with the straps on the Walker poles? I notice theres a little loop coming out the top and since taking them apart, I can't get them back in place and adjustable. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm a Kiwi living in Thailand. I'm experimenting with bamboo. Its light and strong and basically inexpensive. I can cut it to suit my requirements. The locals are a bit gob smacked and surprised and my Thai wife prefers there is not dragging of poles along the road so all I need is a few rubber stoppers and that should be fixed.
Mike you won’t get a true Nordic experience without the straps of a quality product. Excel poles were designed for Olympic athletes. Fixed poles are superior than these extension poles since they are custom measured to your body height and elbow height parallel at a 90 degree from ground kinda like you carrying a tray. But any exercise is better than lying on your bamboo couch. Nordic is far better using 90% of your core muscles compared to 40% of normal walking.
The little yellow strap clip doesn't really 'click' safely into the hole, thereby the wrist strap comes right out (sometimes when you don't want it to. Just held in the socket by a hair width clip. You must have good gripping hands to loosen andor re-snuggen the poles after adjustment..impossible if hands a bit sweaty....should have used a clip mechanism.
no no no.....thats not how you want to walk.....you look like a robot with a stick in its back side.....you wanna walk like your strutting to a song that only you can hear.....walk with style...not like a rectally incumbered robot.
