By Gill Stewart at 03:04 PM | 03/04/2020

What a weird couple of weeks! With a huge proportion of the world confined to their homes, exercise has become the daily norm for many who actually did less of it before before their enforced confinement. Long hours, commuting, sitting at desks and hectic lives all causing them to flop on the sofa once at

By Gill Stewart at 04:32 PM | 02/04/2020

We thought we would share another amazing testimonial in order to inspire people to not only go for a daily walk in these difficult times but to explore Nordic Walking as soon as you can by joining one of our groups like Watford Nordic Walking who shared this story with us. NORDIC WALKING changes LIVES!

By Gill Stewart at 02:40 PM | 02/04/2020

The NWUK and WALX Instructor teams have literally gone the extra mile in the last couple of weeks even though they can’t support their walkers in person and can only don their own walking shoes once a day! Instructors right across the UK have created the most innovative programmes and worked as a Team to

By Gill Stewart at 03:14 PM | 13/03/2020

Our new Pole walking induction has been trialled to great effect and both our NWUK and WALX teams are going through the training to be able to deliver it. the POWER of POLES Induction is totally unique in that it explores the use of both strapless and Nordic walking poles to aid the user gain

By Gill Stewart at 05:09 PM | 02/10/2019

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

By Gill Stewart at 07:07 PM | 22/09/2019

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

By Gill Stewart at 12:45 PM | 22/09/2019

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

By Gill Stewart at 06:09 PM | 29/07/2019

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

By Gill Stewart at 08:42 PM | 27/07/2019

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

By Gill Stewart at 08:42 PM | 27/07/2019

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

By Gill Stewart at 04:11 PM | 25/07/2019

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