NORDIC WALKING
What is Nordic Walking
It is story of some years ago, when a group of Finnic skate skiing men thought to employ their snow stick to train during summer month, emploing the same mouvements with a difference: the lack of snow.
In this way it was born the nordic walking that comes from ice and that had been practiced only for high level athlets.
Only from the 90ties nordic walking has become popular in the land of 1.000 lakes and after it has become popular all over Europe having been successful everywhere.
In Italy nordic walking is one of the fitness activities which are more performed, its main chatacteristic is to walk with sticks, simulating the step, of snow skating, creating a movements that involves arms and trunk muscolar tissue and permets a movement that is faster than the usual one.
Benefits
This sport is clearly less exacting than running and more efficacious than the normal walking, reducing in this way the traums to the articulation of legs and developing a motory co-ordination, but also the rhytm lightly quickened than the walk has a positive effect on the hearth and cyrculatory system and muscolar apparatus developing it and improving the basic resistance.
Moreover increasing the oxygen employment more calorie are used than the other physic activities.
We must not forget of its therapeutic employment it is usually recommended for the prevention and rehabilitation of cardio-cyrculatory diseases seen that it employs less solicitation than running.
Nordic Walking advantages
Nordic walking is the new sport training that is quickly conquesting all the world. From Finland where it was born, to Australia, from China to USA there aare thousands of pratictioners. It is one of the sports which are increasing in this period. The best finnic invention after the "sauna".
Nordic walking consists in walking (but also running, jumping and doing exercices) with sticks which have been creating for this sport. It offers a natural and very efficacious way to ameliorate the physic training and to tonify all the body muscles. It is more enjoing, relaxing and not very expensive.
In the three levels of nordic walking - wellness, fitness and sport - everyone finds the practice and the right exercices fot his/her physic condition.
From the quiet and therapeutic walk to a good aerobic training, to the specific exercices for the athletes.
Employing the Nordic walking exact technic you exercices 90% of body muscles in a fluent, harmonious, symmetrical and natural way, with all the benefits that a complete training implies.
To put into practice nordic walking you can:
- consume from 20% to 40% than a normal walk and tonify all the body;
- ameliorate your physic condition in a natural sure and amusing way;
- release the tensions and decrease the ache in shoulders and neck zone;
- prevent and take care of the back problems;
- having other benefits to improve the wellness;
you can find other information on the web-site www.anwi.it where you can find the list of the country qualified teachers.
The new tendency of the mountain sports
Nordic walking is the new tendency of the mountain walking. It represents a scientific and revolutionary way of the mouvement into the nature. You walk with special sticks that follow the speed step. This permet to mouve the 90% of the body muscles, to reduce the 30% the physic engagement, and to consume from 20% to 40% more energies than the traditional jogging.
Nordic Walking Courses
Our ANWI trainers organize nordic walking courses for participants of basic level-technic 1 and 2 and give you the "nordic walker certificate". The course takes hours 4,5 hours and the price is euro 60,00 per person. Please contact us for availability.
With meeting at Rifugio Passo Staulanza we propose every day nordic walking tours on Pelmo, Monte Civetta and Mondevalnatural reserve or to Monte Civetta. You will learn quickly with us this new way of walking and the phylosophy of this new trendy sport.
Individual lessons
Nordic walking training based on your specifical need with a national istructor.
Price: euro 20,00 for one hour.
During: one hour.
You can also book for two people, the price is euro 15,00 per person.
Group lessons
From 4 people
Price: euro 12,00 per person
During: 2 hours
Guided tours: from 10 June to 31 July, from 1st September to 30 September 2009
Whole day included nordic walking sticks euro 30,00
Half day included nordic walking sticks euro 17,00
Minimum 3 peoples.
Dates: from 1st to 31st july, from 1st to 30th September 2009.
3 days with HB, a guided tour plus additional services euro 198,00
7 days with HB, 3 guided tours plus additional services euro 395,00
Additional services:
• renting Nordic Walking sticks
• maps of Nordic Walking paths
VENETO TOP WALK Summer Performance
(a project of Veneto in co-operation with ski-lifts)
Nordic walking in mountains is good for people who want to join nature, sport and amusemet, for this Veneto has created nordic walking tracks at the top of the ski-lifts. The originality is to link sport in pleasant places with the challange to your abilities checked with the performance process.
The person that makes the trip, receives at the buying of the ticket the map of the track; the time monitoring begins with the introduction in the magetic ticket reader at the starting point and ends with the introduction of the ticket in the magnetic reader at the arrival. Keeping the ticket with the identification code you enter in www.venetotopwalk.it where it is possible to do the reading of the trip and the time comparison.
Pay attention: take suitable shoes and sport dresses and your camera an let's start !!
