Nordic Walking
Leisure experiences in Nordic walking and rambling and their contributions to mental well-being : A mixed methods study
... and walking products create the leisure identity of ramblers and unique experiences of a collective, reflexivity, freedom and appreciation of nature, which benefit ...of Nordic walking, Shove and ...
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Nordic Walking May Safely Increase the Intensity of Exercise Training in Healthy Subjects and in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure
... The Nordic walking technique increased the intensity of aerobic training in a safe and well- -tolerated way in both healthy individuals and in patients with chronic heart ...
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Supervised and non supervised Nordic walking in the treatment of chronic low back pain: a single blind randomized clinical trial
... benefit. Nordic Walking - power walking using ski poles - is a popular and fast growing type of exercise in Northern Europe that has been shown to improve cardiovascular ...whether Nordic ...
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Development and validation of system for measuring poling forces during Nordic walking
... Nordic walking (NW), grouped as an endurance physi- cal activity, has been gaining ...normal walking has been often explained by the additional recruitment of the upper body musculature for ...
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Effects of short-term Nordic walking training on sarcopenia-related parameters in women with low bone mass: a preliminary study
... Materials and methods: The participants were 45 women, aged 63–79 years, with osteope- nia or osteoporosis. The subjects were randomly assigned either to an experimental group (12 weeks of Nordic walking ...
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Nordic walking and well-being of senior walkers
... of Nordic walkers (15-20 people) from “Active Living” Wigan, who have intermediate skills and perform the activity weekly in Three Sisters Park in ...status), Nordic walking practice and type of ...
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Nordic Walking improves daily physical activities in COPD: a randomised controlled trial
... COPD patients are a target group for exercise-based rehabilitation as they spend most of their time sitting or lying compared to healthy subjects [23]. In fact, even COPD patients at GOLD stage II significantly limit ...
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<p>The effects of exercise and diet program in overweight people – Nordic walking versus walking</p>
... Purpose: Nordic walking (NW) has been recommended as a form of exercise for clinical populations. Despite intervention programs designed to face a clinical status may last several months, no longitudinal ...
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Does Nordic Walking restore the temporal organization of gait variability in Parkinson’s disease?
... during walking, Nordic Walking (NW) may be used as an external cueing to improve spatiotemporal parameters of gait, such as stride length or gait variability, in ...overground walking sessions ...
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Nordic Walking and chronic low back pain: design of a randomized clinical trial
... activity. Nordic Walking (NW) is a fast growing and popular way to exercise in northern Europe, in particular in Scandina- via and Germany ...by walking using poles with rubber or spike tips in the ...
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Does moderate to high intensity Nordic walking improve functional capacity and pain in fibromyalgia? A prospective randomized controlled trial
... capacity. Nordic walking (NW) is a mode of exercise that has gained popularity in Northern Europe in recent ...is walking using poles, which implies that muscles in the upper body are also acti- ...
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Physiological and psychological health effects of Nordic walking on sedentary adults
... week Nordic Walking programme on health outcomes in sedentary yet healthy ...a Nordic (N=20) or standard walking group (N=19) and completed three 55-minute supervised walking sessions ...
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Effects of 12 weeks of Nordic Walking and XCO Walking training on the endurance capacity of older adults
... The study was conducted as a randomised controlled longitudinal trial with two parallel training groups (NW and XCO). Both groups completed 4 weeks of technical instruction training followed by a 12-week endurance ...
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Effect of Nordic Walking training on iron metabolism in elderly women
... To our knowledge, no studies so far have investigated the effect of long-lasting Nordic Walking (NW) training on hepcidin concentration in elderly individuals. Moreover, we extended our study to vitamin D ...
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Kinematical analysis, pole forces and energy cost of Nordic walking: Slope influence
... Calculations, storage and display of the measured val- ues were executed using a special programme, which was done using MATLAB software (MathWorks, Na tick, USA). This programme makes possible the online dis- play of ...
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Oxygen uptake, heart rate, perceived exertion, and integrated electromyogram of the lower and upper extremities during level and Nordic walking on a treadmill
... Willson et al. [16] indicated that NW induces a smal- ler inertia moment of the knee joint during the stance phase compared with LW, and suggested that this phenomenon may be related to the smaller load on the knees in ...
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<p>Cognitive functioning enhancement in older adults: is there an advantage of multicomponent training over Nordic walking?</p>
... Both the MCT and the NW participants progressed in executive functions, spatial memory, and information pro- cessing speed tests as a consequence of physical training. On average, the performance in these three tests did ...
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<p>Effect of <em>HFE</em> Gene Mutation on Changes in Iron Metabolism Induced by Nordic Walking in Elderly Women</p>
... The participants met three times a week, 1 h after having a light breakfast, and performed the main session of NW training (10-min warm-up, 45 – 55-min NW, and 10-min cool-down) at 60 – 70% intensity of their maximum ...
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Impact of walking speed and slope of the ground on axial force of poles in Nordic walking
... normal walking often come to different ...normal walking (Bohne, & Abendroth-Smith, 2007; Foissac, Berthollet, Seux, & Belli, 2008; Knight & Caldwell, 2000; Riegrová, 2007; Schwameder, Roithner, ...
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Dynamic Activity Related Incentives for Physical Activity
... first Nordic Walking ...three-month Nordic walking course (12 weekly lessons; T2), participants once again com- pleted a questionnaire on their incentives for participating in Nordic ...
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