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By Claire Walter on April 5, 2012
Nordic Body founder, fitness and Nordic Walking coach offers free tips Malin Svensson, owner of Nordic Body in the LA. area and a multiply certified international fitness coach with a special concentration on Nordic Walking, is offering s a free teleseminar called “8 Simple Steps to Lose Weight, Look Great and Feel Sexy!” on Tuesday, April [...]
Posted in Benefits, Fitness, Weight Management | Tagged Malin Svensson, teleseminar |
By Claire Walter on January 5, 2012
Nordic Walking authority shares tips & advice Malin Svensson, Nordic Walking and fitness expert in Los Angeles is hosting a FREE teleseminar called “8 Simple Steps to Lose Weight, Look Great and Feel Sexy!” on Tuesday, January 10, at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Click here to sign up online (scroll down to the simple registration form). [...]
Posted in Benefits, Events, Instruction, Weight Management | Tagged free teleseminar, Main Svensson |
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 September 15, 2010
Gottfried Kürmer returns to US to teach and train on both coasts I don’t think I’ve ever gone two weeks without posting on this blog, but I’ve had killer article deadlines and a little “distraction” called the Fourmile Canyon Fire, which scorched more than 6,000 acres in the foothills west of Boulder and even had [...]
Posted in Certification, Instruction, Organization, Starting Out, Weight Management |
By Claire Walter on August 10, 2010
Considering what really matters in fitness walking with poles I have been following the impassioned and yet dispiriting discussion on the UK-based Nordic Walking eCommunity about whether Pacer Poles with their unconventional grips can be considered Nordic Walking poles in the broadest sense of the term. Click here if you care to slog through the [...]
Posted in Blog, Park, Participation, Technique, Weight Management |
By Claire Walter on March 22, 2010
I have nothing but admiration for Elizabeth Foote, a plus-size lady in the Salt Lake City area who took up Nordic Walking some years ago, got trained to teach the sport and began to see improvements in her own health and vitality even as she taught others. Under the name FootePath, she has been helping others [...]
Posted in Instruction, Starting Out, Weight Management |
By Claire Walter on February 9, 2010
Earlier today, I received an E-mail from Nordic Walker Warren Nelson from Vancouver, Washington. I’m delighted to share his message (with his permission): “I have your blog feeding into my Goggle Reader and track it regularly. So, I thought when I got this write up in our local Vancouver, WA “Columbian” circulation 40,000, you’d be [...]
Posted in Competition, Fitness, Media, Weight Management |
By Claire Walter on August 11, 2009
I received the E-mail below and will answer it here. A visitor to this blog wrote: “I understand that you may not be a nordic walking trainer, but i enjoyreading your blog and just wanted some advice. i took up nordic walking quite byaccident 4 months ago and i throughly enjoy getting up in the [...]
Posted in Instruction, Weight Management |
By Claire Walter on March 17, 2009
Magazine covers often promise more than reality can deliver That’s the promise on a Prevention magazine promotional insert in yesterday’s paper. “Fast” is a four-letter word that means excessive expectations. The subtitle, “…in just three short walks a week!” In fact, every issue of every woman’s, health, fitness and other magazine makes such rash promises. [...]
Posted in Media, Weight Management |
By Claire Walter on December 21, 2008
British walking site calculates calories expended and how much walking is needed to work off how much mince pie From the nation that brought us Monty Python, “Are You Being Served?” and “Keeping Up Appearances” comes a wonderfully humor-based calorie calculator that correlates excessive holiday eating with how much walking will undo the damage. Click [...]
Posted in Benefits, Health Benefits, United Kingdom, Weight Management |
