Make 2024 your healthiest year yet!
A new beginning, a fresh start, a new and improved you!!! No time like the start of 2024 to turn over a new leaf and commit to working on your physical and mental wellbeing. January is National Staying Healthy and Mental Health Month, and we can’t think of a better new year’s resolution. Physical activity […]
Independence Day
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ACRM Annual Conference 2021
Urban Poling is excited to announce the participation of our co-director as a speaker, Mandy Shintani in the Progress in Rehabilitation Research Conference hosted by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM). The 98th Annual Conference will take place from September 26th to the 29th, and it will be virtual on a high-demand platform. The […]
The Importance of Self Care
Self-care is an important component of your total health and well-being. Self-care can be many things! It is not just a spa day it can be so much more and something you can take time to do every single day. Exercise is a great outlet for self-care and Urban Poling is a great form of […]
Combine Exercise and The Great Outdoors to Boost Your Mental Health
More and more evidence supports that being outdoors and in natural environments has positive mental health benefits due to their restorative properties- they allow us to renew, refresh and re-energize! Urban settings, on the other hand, are completely different and have the opposite effect because everyone’s energy is spent on trying to cope with the […]
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month! Over 19 research studies have been completed on the effects of Nordic Walking on Parkinson’s Disease. These studies clearly identify poling, with the proper training, as a healthy mode of physical activity suited for improving quality of life. Walking poles offer proven health benefits which may include increased balance & […]
Learn How to Boost Your Brain Health!
Prevention Magazine featured an article on brain health with the renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, where he shared valuable tips on how to protect the ever important “grey matter” as we age. There’s no time like the present to make sure we’re doing our best to keep it stimulated, energized, and replenished. March 15-21, 2021 […]
Up Close & Personal with Barb Gormley
Up Close & Personal with Barb Gormley We asked Barb a few questions so that she could share her valuable insight and experience: Q: When you see people walking with poor technique because they have obviously taught themselves or people who still think that hiking poles and Nordic walking poles are the same, do you […]
Learn More About Lumino Health!
We’re happy to be partnered with some amazing organizations and programs such as Lumino Health, an innovation from Sun Life! Lumino Health’s goal is to move away from out-dated health-care practices and connect you with the right health-care provider or resource when you need it most. The health-care system has been reactive and driven by […]
Teaching Urban Poling in Covid Times, Blessing or Curse?
Recently one of our long-time instructors Laura Clements wrote an amazing article on teaching Urban Poling during Covid. She was inspired after coming across our booth at a CanFitPro conference in Toronto after spending the day with her grandfather who was approaching 100 years old, and he walked with a similar straight arm swing, upright […]