Exerstrider® Method Total Body ‘Nordic’ Walking Benefits
Tom Rutlin’s 30 plus years of pioneering work to transform ordinary walking into Total Body Walking® has resulted in “Nordic walking” becoming one of the most popular new forms of physical activity globally. The main goal of using the poles is to involve many additional muscles, which are not used during normal walking. This significantly increases the overall health promoting benefits of the exercise that is programed into human DNA – walking— while adding a relatively low level of additional perceived exertion.
You’ll use your entire body…so you won’t have to abuse any part of it!
(Highlighted muscles are activated when using Exerstrider® poles and our easy-to-master techniques.)
Exerstriding has been shown to be highly effective in both building physical fitness as well as in the rehabilitation of various groups of patients, such as the elderly, patients with pain, patients with orthopedic issues, and patients with neurological or cardiovascular disorders. Exerstriding has been proven for over 30 years to be a natural and safe form of physical activity that can be widely enjoyed and beneficial to persons of all ages and abilities as well as in physical rehabilitation as it…
- Simultaneously strengthens and conditions nearly all of the body’s major muscles
- Burns significantly more calories as you walk, and revs up your metabolism for hours following exercise
- Builds healthier heart, vascular system, lungs, muscles and connective tissues
- Stabilizes joints and reduces pain and injury-causing stress to hips, knees and feet
- Helps maintain health, strong bones
- Improves posture, balance and gait
- Improves immune and lymph system function
- Increases overall vitality
- Provides a pain-free, fun, convenient, highly motivating fresh-air total body exercise
I’m glad to see that walking with fitness poles is catching on. I came across them about a year ago through a friend of mine, national fitness authority Tom Rutlin. Tom has made it his personal mission to make walking the most efficient workout possible.”