From the WALX & NWUK Community
By Gill Stewart at
At WALX we have been at the forefront of poles walking for rehabilitation since 2004 when we first brought Nordic Walking into the country and started to work with Age UK Things have moved on since then and our experts now don’t actually recommend Nordic Walking in its pure form for many medical conditions or
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2019 was the 4th Purbeck Nordic walking festival (known as PURPLEBECK) It has grown significantly over the years and now attracts 700 plus walkers to a mix of walks, workshops and social events over 3 days every September. This year, WALX sponsored the event and a decision was made to open up some of the
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Love it or hate it Technology is here to stay and this year at our Purplebeck Festival in September we embraced it both as a way to keep folk safe and to aid research. So, DON’T SWITCH off from this article because we have two APPS that could save you and others from illness or
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How inspirational is this Chap? John at the front of the picture is now 80 but that did not stop him from walking 26 miles along the Jurassic Coast for Macmillan Cancer recently. In fact, that was only one of his many celebration events… he also had two off road mountain biking parties and a
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Are you somebody who embraces the warm up exercises at the beginning of a walk or more likely to be grumbling ‘get on with it’ under your breath? YES, our WALX Masters know that some people just can’t see the point of what seems like a lot of twiddling, circling and stamping BUT there are
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At WALX we know just how beneficial a daily walk with the dog can be (for both parties) but we also know that it can take a lot of time out of you day so how do you make sure BOTH of you get the maximum out of every step? When we are out walking, we
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After two years of work, the WALX concept is here! At Nordic Walking UK we wanted to be able to reach out to more people and remove any potential barriers that may put people off joining our 2,000 plus activities a week. SO, we will be working with our Instructors to add activities under our
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Come and join us for a lovely Christmas meal on the 18th December at 7pm We have chosen a lovely accessible and central venue (the Sandford Pub which is on the A 351 between Wareham and Poole and will be operating a car share plan where possible too. Its a lovely Festive menu –
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We are delighted to welcome Lorien, Lauren and Gilly pictured here with the rest of the Dorset Nordic Walking Instructor team. We are your local branch of a wider UK network that provides over 2,000 walks and classes a week! Lauren and Gilly have been walk leaders for a while now and we are