Poles for Hiking & Walking

Instructor: Jayah Faye Paley

Members $35, Nonmembers $45

Poles enable and empower. They’re Fun!
Optimal use enables you to use your muscles to help preserve your joints.

Take charge of your health - learn a skill that can help you stay healthy. Poles facilitate an upper body workout, balance and weight loss while you’re connecting with your buddies and enjoying the beauties of nature.

Join us and learn how to use poles so you can:
- reduce knee stress on downhill
- achieve more power & endurance on uphill
- improve performance & stability on all terrain
- improve upper body strength which promotes bone density & helps prevent osteoporosis
- avoid hand/wrist/elbow/shoulder strain
- recruit more muscles while walking, which facilitates fat-burning & weight loss
- improve posture
- help prevent injury

Learn what poles fit and suit you best and how to avoid common mistakes that can cause injury or strain. Feel the power as you efficiently transition between techniques as you change terrain and expand your hiking horizons. Learning good form can help you to more safely and completely enjoy your outdoor experiences!

Techniques are presented in an easy-to-learn, progressive format that helps you to achieve the many benefits of poles.

Top quality poles and gloves provided. You’ll be able to try different models to see what works best for your body and concerns.

Schedule of Class & Practice Hike:
(subject to modification depending on the needs and goals of the group)

Morning:
· Intro, discussion of your goals and issues
· Benefits of using poles
· Equipment Basics
· Straps, adjusting, baseline length
· Troubleshooting
· Connecting with your body
· Detailed Pole Fitting (What poles best suit your body & goals?)
· Posture & Anatomy discussion - How to use muscles vs joints
· Exercises to improve posture with poles
· Techniques for Flat Terrain & gentle slopes
· Stairs & obstacles

Lunch with discussion of equipment types, hiking tips.

After lunch:
· Rocky Terrain with Long Foam Grips
· Bridges
· Practice Hike
· Steeper up and down
· Hiking Tips
· Transitioning between techniques as you change terrain
· Power walking with poles for exercise
· Obstacles
· Streams
· Pole care
· Troubleshooting review
· Stretches & questions

Instructor Jayah Faye Paley, of AdventureBuddies, is the creator of the only comprehensive training on how to use poles – 2 award-winning DVD’s – “POLES for Hiking, Trekking & Walking” & “POLES for Balance & Mobility.” You can find more information about her on our "Instructors" page, and at www.PolesForMobility.com & www.AdventureBuddies.NET. Bob Haxo, PhD (also of Adventure Buddies) will be co-instructor.

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