Nordic Walking

[Rhionnach]

I've been searching on here for any discussions on Nordic walking. In the apparent absence of any I have decided to start one.

I took up Nordic walking recently as I am unable to run while I am recovering from a car crash in which I suffered a broken neck and arm. I'm getting better and want to help my recovery by getting back my fitness. 

I'd be interested to hear from anyone else doing Nordic walking.

[leduck]

Hi, there! I also do Nordic Walking, mainly because I have ankle instability (needs to be rebuilt surgically) and the extra stability helps.

[SunsetRunner]

What is Nordic walking? I have knee problems; would this be something I could benefit from

[WendyB]

@SunsetRunner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTufkzpo8E

[Rhionnach]

I've found Nordic walking to give me the same sort of buzz as I get from running. It's been something I've missed since I've been forced to take things easy while my neck heals. I was looking around for something to keep my fitness going and came across Nordic walking. It doesn't have the impact that running has and gives me an aerobic workout.

[MarkCharb]

Nordic walking is a great low-impact activity, however Fitbit fails to track distance correctly regarding steps due to the tracker mis-interpreting the arm swing in combination with the step used to increment the counter. The use of the poles dampen this. Has anyone found a similar activity to classify Nordic Walking that will compensate for an accurate measurement?

[bcalvanese]

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@Rhionnach wrote:

I've been searching on here for any discussions on Nordic walking. In the apparent absence of any I have decided to start one.

I took up Nordic walking recently as I am unable to run while I am recovering from a car crash in which I suffered a broken neck and arm. I'm getting better and want to help my recovery by getting back my fitness. 

I'd be interested to hear from anyone else doing Nordic walking.

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I see people nordic walking at places that I power walk/jog.

You can also power walk. It's sort of like nordic walking but without the poles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gknH0pQwohc

I power walk just about every single day. I started at about a 3 to 3.5 mph pace for 1 mile, and gradually worked myself up to being able to do over 4.5 mph for 10 miles (over about a year and a half).

About five or six months ago I started adding jog intervals into my power walks because I had a hard time keeping my HR up just power walking. Started with a 30 second jog interval and 2 minute power walk interval.

Now I can jog 5 miles, and power walking is my recovery exercise now.

[Henry1953]

I have just tried out Nordic Walking with two poles and I also found that my Charge 4 does not count steps correctly. It tracked my mileage correctly, I guess using GPS.

I am going to dig out an old Zip step counter that I can put in my pocket and hope that that works.