Nordic Walking, a variation of the simple walk coming from the summer trainer of the cross-country skiers using special poles, it is a great help in postural re-education and it is an excellent exercise to achieve a good physical wellbeing without tiring out articulations, ideal for who want to lose weight and for elderly people. The poles used are totally different from trekking or ski poles and they are equipped with gloves that allow to adopt a particular stance of your hands.

In fact, when pushing, your hand isn't holding the grip but it is completely open with the palm turned towards the ground. When getting back, your hand firm hold the grip in front of you. 

If this exercise seems to be easy, just think that 5 km can be covered walking at a steady pace with 7.000 steps so less than one hour, you should open/close yr hands 7.000 times. An efficient pump effect for blood circulation.

A right excercise and nordic walking poles reduce the load carried by knees by approximately 5% every step. This translates into Kg of weight even on 7.000 steps. The technique also provides the "rollin foot" (heel - sole - forefoot) and the counter-rotating of shoulder-pelvis axis that allows to remove any blocks in the articulations, pelvis and shoulders as well as a massage of invertebral spaces.

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