By Claire Walter on January 22, 2012
Yet another study has yet another quality-of-life benefit — or so it appears. Reporter Gretchen Reynolds’s piece in the New York Times, “How Exercise May Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay,” wrote that “a cautiously encouraging new study from The Archives of Neurology suggests that for some people, a daily walk or jog could alter the risk of developing [...]
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By Claire Walter on August 27, 2011
Ed Urbanski, Certified Master Nordic Walking Instructor and co-moderator of Nordic Walking eNews, paid a visit to Colorado this week. We have been cyber-friends for some time, so I was delighted to get to meet him in person, and he was eager to meet Dave “Bigfoot” Felkley, whom he described as “my snowshoeing idol.” Easy to make that happen. Ed came to Boulder, and together we drove up the canyon to Nederland.
Posted in People, Seniors, Snowshoeing | Tagged Nordic Walking instructor, Snowshoeing |
By Claire Walter on January 27, 2011
Wild Bear Mountain Nature Center’s nature tour with “Bigfoot?” Follow Dave “Snowshoe” Felkley on a leisurely snowshoe tour, and you’ll learn a lot about Rocky Mountain winter ecology and have a totally great time while you’re at it. Felkley leads a hike on behalf of the Wild Bear Nature Center this Saturday (and again February [...]
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By Claire Walter on August 21, 2010
No, not rehab for substance abuse but physical issues In the early 21st century, rehab can connote yet another celebrity checking into the Betty Ford Clinic or another group injured overcoming or adapting to injuries sustained in Iraq or Afghanistan — or just regular, non-famous people to who “something” has happened back home. Steve Crossley, who perhaps [...]
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By Claire Walter on September 27, 2009
Today is the Close of Active Aging Week, 2009Active Aging Week (September 21-27) ends today. It started without my noticing in advance, but for Tom Rutlin every week is Active Aging Week! He is the developer of Exerstrider poles and frequent presenter International Council on Active Aging conferences and a preferred ICAA vendor, and he [...]
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By Claire Walter on June 7, 2009
“Walking May Lower Dementia Risk” … So reads the headline of an article in today’s New York Times citing two published studies on walking and dementia. One is a four-year study of 749 Italian men and women over 65 (27 percent lower incidence of vascular dementia among “frequent walkers” than “those who walked the least). [...]
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By Claire Walter on February 19, 2009
Nordic Walking is nothing new, and mall walking is certainly not new either. Instructor Rhea Kontos reports on her blog that the huge Mall of America in Minneapolis now permits use of Nordic Walking poles. She and another instructor recently introduced Nordic Walking to about 70 members of Mall Stars, the local indoor walking group [...]
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By Claire Walter on January 23, 2009
Fitness program on public television program is sponsored by Exerstrider Usually, I turn off the television as soon the closing credits start rolling at the end of the “Body Electric,” a light strength training program that is broadcast weekdays at 6:30 a.m. on KBDI, one of Denver’s two public TV stations. A neighbor and I [...]
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By Claire Walter on August 4, 2008
Minnesota indoor walking beats the heat, the bugs, the humidity and other summer exercise impediments Even when day-time temperatures soar as they have over the last three weeks, summer mornings in Colorado are usually so grand that I hadn’t thought about indoor mall walking in a while. Then, I read a recent post by Linda [...]
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By Claire Walter on June 23, 2008
Despite the body of evidence that regular exercise helps seniors stay healthy, most don’t A recent USA Today feature called “Older, Wiser But Less Active” began: “Let’s say there was a drug that could prevent heart attacks, strokes and cancer and treat everything from fragile bones to constipation, while quite possibly staving off dementia and [...]
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