ancient centuries the travelers surely took a strong staff for long and distant campaigns. The staff helped to get over on a long distance and served as an excellent support. The principle of a staff is used in the modern Scandinavian walking better known as Nordic Walking.
Usual walking in itself is rather useful exercise which allows to strengthen muscles and a backbone, to lose excess weight and to keep a body in a tone. The Scandinavian walking yields result twice better. Modern Scandinavian walking was thought up by the Finnish skiers who sought to be in good shape out of a ski season. Initially it was sports walking with couple of modified ski sticks.
Technology of the Scandinavian walking is rather simple, it is fashionable to it to seize for one-two occupations. This sport involves muscles of the top part of a trunk and the upper extremities. Half an hour of occupations the Scandinavian walking is burned to three hundred calories that is twice more than at usual walking. Also Scandinavian walking yields the following positive results:
- Improves work of heart and lungs.
- Involves about ninety percent of muscles of all body.
- Trains the lower and upper muscles at the same time.
- Burns more calories.
- Is an excellent training on endurance for athletes.
- Is ideal for treatment of problems with a neck, a bearing and shoulders.
- At the expense of sticks allows to move at fast speed without excess efforts.
The Scandinavian walking is applied as preventive exercise to prevention of a hypertension, osteoporosis, diabetes and increase in cholesterol. Also this sport improves a bearing and appearance of the person.
Technology of the Scandinavian walking is rather simple. In an initial position it is necessary to bend the right hand a little in an elbow and to extend forward. The stick has to lie in a hand at an angle. The left hand has to lie freely along a basin and last back. At each new step it is necessary to become at first on a heel, and then and on a sock. Before the occupations it is necessary to carry out an extension of a back, hips and shins. It will prepare a body for new loadings. In the Scandinavian walking use two types of sticks – telescopic (with several kolenye) and the fixed length. Most often they are produced from such materials as carbon fabrics, a coal plastic and aluminum.
The value of this type of walking is that practically everyone can be engaged in it. This type of fitness allows to regulate physical activity, is easy in development and is not extreme.