Buying a pair of walking poles and using them without being properly instructed in their use, is like buying a set of cross-country skis and poles or an expensive set of golf clubs and merely assuming you will be able to get the most results, benefits and enjoyment possible without any expert instruction. Only Exerstrider® poles come with (at no additional cost!) 5-star rated clear, concise and complete video instruction by Tom Rutlin – fitness pole walking innovator and certified instructor with more than 30 years of experience. With the purchase of any pair of Exerstrider poles you will be given immediate video access to instruction on both how to set up and care for your poles, as well as clear step by step instruction specific yet easy-to-master techniques that will allow you to immediately begin achieving the optimal results with each and every step you take!
I want to assure you that anyone who can walk and carry a bag of groceries from the car into the house (or lift and hug a grandchild) has all of the necessary physical abilities needed to Exerstride!
This simple total body version of walking stimulates the total-body fitness building involvement of 90% of the body (compared with just 40% with ordinary walking).
To “feel” how the total body “synergistic total body resistance” of Exerstriding works…
- Sit at a desk or table and raise both your hands and extend them both out as though you’re about to shake hands.
- Make two fists and place them on the desk or table (thumbs up) directly in front of your shoulders.
- Make certain your arms are extended and that your elbows are not resting on the surface of your desk.
- Finally, while sitting upright, press both hands into the surface of the desk or table and feel the powerful contractions of the core and upper body (absent in ordinary walking!) and then alternatively press one fist, then the other firmly onto the desk repeatedly for 15-20 repetitions.
You will feel how waves of contractions go through your abdominal and other core muscles as well as those of your back, arms, shoulders and chest. The resulting involvement of significantly more muscle mass in moving your body forward with every stride you take is the magic ingredient in Exerstriding! Imagine the effects of roughly 2,000 of these fitness and endurance-building synergistic muscle contractions with each mile walked! The results over time are a simultaneous optimization of both the strength and metabolic potential of nearly all of the body’s major muscles with each and every step, and a synergistic tuning of the body’s muscular, cardio, vascular and neurological systems which produces increased vitality, improved overall health and motivating results without the need – ever – for no pain, no gain workouts! Let “no pain, optimal gain” be your new fitness mantra.