Hip Pain? Try Nordic Walking to Relieve Pain in Your Hips

If your hips hurt, you might wish to consider walking a different way.

Nordic Walking uses “walking sticks” (poles) and can help people with hip pain more than using a cane.  A cane supports you on only one side, but walking with a pole in each hand gives you support on both sides.

Using these walking poles helps propel you forward.

They also cause you to swing your arms in a good, neutral position.  When you swing your arms correctly as you walk (next to your body rather than in front of your body, and with your thumbs pointed upward as when you shake hands) you use all of your upper body muscles as they were designed to be used.

Nordic Walking gives you a good upper body workout as well as your lower body.

Why is walking good for your hips?

We get into pain when we get out of muscular balance.  Walking is what we were designed to do.  We are supposed to move.  We are built to walk for miles and miles.

But, long hours of sitting and other lifestyle changes caused some muscles to become “too tight” and others to become weak.

Walking changes all that.  Walking helps get all of the muscles around your hip joint strong and balanced, each with the other.

Walking might not be something you can do easily anymore.  You might be able to do Nordic Walking or you simply might not.  You will have to really consider your body and how you feel, and you might want to check with your doctor.

If you watch a video about Nordic walking, you might think, “They are going too fast.  I could never do that.”  Well, maybe you can’t do it right now but if you start out gradually at the pace you can manage, your hips will start to get happier and stronger.  This might be a helpful way to propel yourself as you walk.

I’d like to tell you about my friend, Rosalie.  She’s an inspiration!  She got rid of her hip pain with walking.  She started out with so much pain in her hips that she couldn’t walk up her stairs–she had to crawl.

But Rosalie literally walked away from her pain!  And she ended up loving Nordic walking!

Walking gave Rosalie her life back.

I’d like to hear from you when you tell me how you walked away from your pain…simply by walking.