Nordic Walking

Nordic Walking (or Nordic walking) is a physical exercise practiced while walking that involves the upper limbs through a push on the ground made with the aid of a pair of sticks.

It allows you to recover thenatural walk, that is the one for which our body is made, setting aside all the wrong movements that the daily rush leads us to make: therefore we look forward and not at the ground, the shoulders are loose and not contracted, the back is straight, we lengthen the stride and use the entire sole of the foot (rolled with sequential support of the heel, sole and toe).

Among the benefits of Nordic Walking we mention in particular these:

• improve posture and fight back pain

• enhances strength and muscle tone, involving almost 90% of the muscles

• improves cardiac and respiratory function

• it is a natural stress relieverand contributes to psycho-physical well-being, also creating contact with nature

• decreases glycemic values in diabetic pathologies and protects the body from osteoporosis and arthrosis

However, in order to use the poles effectively and obtain the maximum benefits, it is essential to learn and put the technique into practice correctly.

Used in the 1930s in the Scandinavian countries by Nordic ski athletes as "dry" summer training, it then went through a series of evolutions until it became a real sport, now practiced all over the world and also in Italy, under the hat of FIDAL (Italian Athletics Federation).