Nordic Walking

I was reading an interesting post over at 125pounds.com about how to enjoy exercise and came to think of "nordic walking" or "pole walking". I started with it a couple of months ago and I love it. I think you have to try it to understand. It feels like you can go faster and you get a higher pulse since you're working with your arms. Some studies say that you burn up to 30% more calories, don't know if it does but it feels like that could be true.

"Nordic walkers use more of their entire body (with greater intensity) and receive fitness building stimulation not as present in normal walking for the chest, lats, triceps, biceps, shoulder, abdominals, spinal and other core muscles." - Wikipedia

You can read more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_walking