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Marion Endt-Jones
- Mar 5, 2019
- 2 min
How Nordic Walking Has Benefitted Me (Nick, Natalie & Marjorie)
Here's why Nick, Natalie and Marjorie love coming to our Wellbeing Nordic Walking groups in Wythenshawe Park and Chorlton Water Park: We love coming to the Nordic walking group for many reasons. The welcome is friendly and the group is well organised. The warm up exercises at the beginning and the cool down stretches at the end of the session have definitely improved our suppleness over time. The routine of walking with the poles makes us more aware of our coordination and po
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Marion Endt-Jones
- Mar 2, 2019
- 2 min
How Nordic Walking Has Benefitted Me (Ros & Roz)
Next up in our series of Wellbeing group members talking about how Nordic Walking has benefitted them, Ros (regularly joining our Wednesday group in Wythenshawe Park) and Roz (walking with the Tuesday group in Chorlton Water Park): "1. It is great for me to be able to walk quite fast again despite arthritis in my hip. 2. I am trying to rebuild the muscles in my right leg and Nordic walking is helping with that. It also takes stress off my pelvis and hip joints. 3. It enables
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Marion Endt-Jones
- Feb 28, 2019
- 2 min
How Nordic Walking Has Benefitted Me (Dorothy & Peter)
Thankfully, the benefits of Nordic Walking for fitness, health and wellbeing have become more and more widely known in the UK and are now recognised by the NHS, Public Health England and the Centre for Ageing Better. There is a vast amount of research into the benefits, and we have probably all seen the usual figures (uses 90% of the body's muscles, burns 20-40% more energy, etc.), but to round off the picture, I asked some of the participants in my Manchester Wellbeing Fund
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