By Claire Walter on May 28, 2013
TR3 added to top strapless pole line A quarter of a century ago, a cerebral runner named Tom Rutlin began marketing the strapless Exerstrider fitness walking pole and with it, a more upright walking style that contrasted to the aggressive forward lean of the original European Nordic Walking technique. With further developments, Exerstriders found a special niche [...]
Posted in People, Poles | Tagged Exerstrider, pols with out straps |
By Claire Walter on January 8, 2012
Q. What is wrong with this picture? A. A whole lot I did a double-take when I saw the Target sales flyer in today’s newspaper with a full page ad on page 5 on fitness equipment. Under the banner headline, “Save on New Balance” are several fitness products. The big lead picture shows a lean and [...]
Posted in Dept of Misinformation, Poles, Stores | Tagged New Balance, Target |
By Claire Walter on October 6, 2011
About.com’s walking columnist suggests what not to buy — but recommends poles We have all heard about the government’s “no fly list.” Wendy Baumgartner, who writes About.com’s walking column, has compile what might be called a “no buy list” of items that she writes she cannot recommend. In fact, it is called “Walking Products I Don’t [...]
Posted in Benefits, Blog, Poles | Tagged fitness walking recommendations |
By Claire Walter on September 9, 2011
Lance Amstrong’s foundation’s website & its curious Nordic Walking article I admire Lance Armstrong, not just for winning seven consecutive Tours de France but for doing so as a cancer survivor and since then, for supporting individuals and organizations doing battle with cancer and working to find a cure. I was gratified to find an article [...]
Posted in Blog, Media, Poles | Tagged Livestrong, Pole length |
By Claire Walter on September 3, 2011
Well-priced snowshoes for winter walking on the white stuff Unless they have been abducted by aliens for more than half a century, Coloradans all know Sniagrab (“bargains” spelled backwards) is the first harbinger of winer. Gart Brothers, a pioneering Denver sporting goods retailer, launched this Labor Day weekend sale 57 years ago as a ski sale. [...]
Posted in Poles, Snowshoeing, Stores | Tagged cheap snowshoes, sale |
By Claire Walter on March 27, 2011
Low-cost, multi-activity poles in stock at big box discounter Costco is now carrying inexpensive (i.e., $24.99) all-purpose poles from China imported by Synergy Sportz LLC of Pocasset, Massachusetts. These adjustable aluminum poles are labeled as “All Season Trekking Poles” by Yukon Charlie’s, a company best known for snowshoes. Each pair of poles comes packed in a plastic shell [...]
Posted in Poles, Stores | Tagged Yukon Charlie, Yukon Charlie's |
By Claire Walter on March 6, 2011
Harvard Health Letter misidentifies poles used for Nordic Walking The new Harvard Health Letter, released under the prestigious Harvard Medical School name, in a piece called “Talking of Walking in Three Easy Pieces,” includes the statement: “Using hiking poles on flat land has been dubbed Nordic walking because the motion resembles cross-country skiing and, by some accounts, the [...]
Posted in Dept of Misinformation, Poles |
By Claire Walter on January 9, 2011
Malin Svensson’s package audio workouts, book, poles, pedometer & more Malin Svensson, a certified international Nordic Walking coach, has assembled several key products into a kit called “My Nordic Walking Coach” to keep Nordic Walkers on track and their technique tuned up. She wears several hats in the Nordic Walking community, the first of which was her [...]
Posted in Book, Instruction, Organization, Pedometer, Poles, Technique, Weight Management | Tagged Fitness walking with poles, Malin Svensson, Nordic Walking, Nordic Walking CDs |
By Claire Walter on January 7, 2011
DayTripping, a New Brunswick-based outdoor recreation company that sells and gear and runs programs, is closing out its inventory of Gymstick Nordic Walking poles. If you’re interested, call 506-657-8747 or E-mail info@daytripping.com for more information. Like Exel, the first Europen brand-name pole, Gymstick is a Finnish company, with fitness products that include walking poles and [...]
Posted in Canada, Finland, Poles | Tagged close-out sale, New Brunsiwck |
By Claire Walter on November 11, 2010
Pittsburgh blogger shares his maiden voyage with walking poles An unidentified male from Pittsburgh whose blog, Navigating the Finite, just started using poles and enthused about the relief they offer to sore knees and back. In a post called “In Praise of Nordic Walking Poles,” he wrote: “I have had my Nordic Walking Poles for week [...]
Posted in Benefits, People, Poles | Tagged bad knees, knee problems, Pirrsbutgh, sore back |
