Free Nordic Walking Classes Coming to Mercy Hospital’s Diabetes Health Fair

Sleeping Bear Dunes, MI, October 31, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Nordic Walking Classes will be offered on November 6th from 1pm - 3pm at Mercy Hospital’s McAuley Center Gymnasium in Cadillac, Michigan. At the Diabetes Health Fair there will be updated information and educational materials to help control blood sugar. The latest in blood glucose meters, insulin pump therapy, the newest therapies and medications will be available. Participants will learn about heart health, exercise options, how to use Mercy Hospital’s resources and more.

Nordic Walking’s winning combination of improved posture, a unique 4-Wheel-Drive type action and shock absorbing benefits - helping many individuals to walk comfortably again. Real Nordic Walking Poles from www.SkiWalking.com and the American Nordic Walking System make walking easier.

Nordic Walking Poles can help to making walking more comfortable and much more effective. Free lessons will be offered again this year at the Diabetes Open House.

Quality one-piece SWIX and EXEL Nordic Walking Poles from www.SkiWalking.com and the American Nordic Walking System will be available for free demo - sized correctly to each individual's height. These are not the cheap/flimsy 2-piece and 3-piece collapsible poles flooding the market from China. Collapsible poles rattle, vibrate and often their twist-locks or flip-locks fail. Pete Edwards, North America’s leading Nordic Walking Instructor and the #1 retailer of one-piece Nordic Walking Poles, will be on hand to host the free lessons.

Edwards has personally introduced hundreds of individuals with diabetes to the many wonderful health benefits of walking with poles. Edwards has happy customers that have lost over 100 pounds in excess weight and in doing so they have eliminated many of the medications that they were taking prior to taking up Nordic Walking. Edwards' walking poles enable many individuals to start a walking campaign and take the healthy road to improved fitness.

Nordic Walking Poles are helping individuals with balance issues, knee issues or new knees, hip issues or new hips, back issues (including those with rods in their back), weight issues, multiple sclerosis (MS), parkinson's (PD), diabetes, neuropathy, arthritis, bursitis, scoliosis, lumbar stenosis, fibromyalgia, post polio, osteoporosis, stroke recovery, cancer recovery and other limitations to walking. Nordic Walking poles are helping thousands of Americans get off the couch, successfully get outside, start walking safely and effectively launch much needed walking campaigns.

Perfect length poles help us to automatically walk with a super straight back - better walking posture is biomechanically a good thing. This improved walking posture when combined with the unique 4-Wheel-Drive type action of walking with poles radically reduces the stress to the shins, knees, hips and back. Nordic Walking is low impact and yet provides a highly effective workout - burning more calories and working more muscle groups than regular walking.

Walking with the perfect length poles and the correct technique can be life changing. Be sure to find quality one-piece poles sized to your specific height. Be sure to avoid cheap/flimsy 2-piece and 3-piece collapsible poles. Seniors and anyone with balance issues should never use collapsible poles. Athletes and skiers only use and trust quality one-piece poles and so should anyone hoping to tap into the many healthy benefits of walking with poles. Collapsible poles cannot be trusted.