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Poles for Hiking and Coastal Exploration
June 19, 2010
Pacifica,
San Mateo County
Participant Limit: 20
Cost: $50
Take charge of your health—learn a skill that can help you and your bones stay healthy. Optimal use enables you to use your muscles to help preserve your joints. Poles facilitate an upper body/core workout, balance and weight loss while you’re connecting with your buddies and enjoying the beauties of nature—in this case, the dramatic coastline of Pacifica!
Learn what poles fit and suit you best as well as how to avoid common mistakes that can cause injury or strain. Learn how to efficiently transition between techniques as you change terrain so that you can expand your hiking capabilities and more safely and completely enjoy your outdoor experiences!
Instructor Jayah Faye Paley will provide multi-level training and drills in a progressive format provide plenty of opportunities to practice using poles on a variety of terrain (or just rest and watch!).
Top quality poles and gloves will be provided. You’ll be able to try different models to see what works best for your body and concerns.
Workshop Cancellation Policy:
If you cancel three weeks or less prior to the workshop date, you will forfeit 100% of your registration unless you provide a replacement, or someone on the waiting lists accepts your spot.
Print out a flyer and post it in a place where women will see it and have the opportunity to register for the workshop! Your gym, local sporting goods stores, etc.
If you need clothing or gear for this workshop,
shop online at REI, 7% of sales through this
link go directly to BOW, CA.
Here’s what this workshop will cover:
- Introduction, 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 and goals?)
- Posture and how to use muscles versus joints
- Exercises to improve posture with poles
- Techniques for flat terrain and gentle slopes
- Stairs and obstacles
- Rocky terrain with long foam grips
- Bridges
- Practice hike
- Steeper up and down
- Hiking tips
- Transitioning between techniques
- Power walking with poles for exercise
- Obstacles
- Streams
- Pole care
- Troubleshooting review
- Stretches
Join us and learn how to use poles correctly so you can:
- Reduce knee stress on downhill
- Achieve more power and endurance on uphill
- Improve upper body/core strength & bone density
- Improve performance and stability on all terrain
- Avoid hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder strain
- Recruit more muscles while walking, which facilitates fat-burning and weight loss
- Improve posture
- Help prevent injury
