This 100+-page guide is written specifically for Nordic walking instructors—and it's the only one on the market!

This is no dry textbook. Instead the friendly magazine format offers loads of ideas, sample lesson plans, tips, tricks, videos, stories, and more from a Nordic walking master trainer with 15+ years of experience. Input from 25 additional international instructors rounds out the content .

Let this book help you enrich the learning experience of your participants. It shares dozens of new ways to quickly teach and correct technique errors along with strategies for helping strugglers and challenging your fittest participants.

It includes videos of Nordic walking warm-ups, cooldowns, balance exercises, muscle conditioning exercises, skills, drills, and more (all with poles).

The author shares the 10 apps and online tools (most of them free) that she uses to run her Nordic walking business.

Get answers to questions such as:

• How do I handle a class with both beginners and more-advanced participants?

• What are 25 techniques/phrases/strategies I can use to encourage people to walk with straighter arms?

• What are ways that I can correct people in a friendly/non-annoying way?

• What are the most common errors that new Nordic walking instructors make, and how can I avoid them?

• What are the 25 participant FAQs that I must be able to answer?

• Lesson plans: What should an excellent Nordic walking group class, private class, fusion class, and one-time clinic look like on paper?

• What should I charge?

• How do I explain the differences between hiking poles/technique and Nordic walking poles/technique?

• What if people come to my classes with hiking poles or poor quality Nordic walking poles?

• How do I encourage people to come back for more classes or sessions?

• What equipment, items, apps do I need to start my business?

• And many more…

Urban Poling Nordic walking poles are a contemporary strapless style of pole. However, the information in these pages will be helpful for any instructor using any brand or style of poles. The focus of this book is on developing richer teaching skills, creating a loyal following of participants, and growing your business.

This book is NOT about how to Nordic walk. Rather, it is about how to expand and improve your Nordic walking teaching skills.

While this book focuses on Nordic walking, much of the information also applies to teaching with Urban Poling ACTIVATOR poles.

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“Tips, tricks and just darn good advice, The Urban Poling Ultimate Guide to Nordic Walking For Instructors can put new tools in any Nordic walking instructor's toolbox. This educational & inspirational guide is packed with ideas to pick and choose from and is formatted so you can go straight to the information that is most useful to you. Gathering knowledge from a variety of successful instructors, plus her own hard-won experience, Barb Gormley gives instructors an invaluable resource for pursuing Nordic walking excellence.”

Tammy Bennett
Healthy Living Director
Whatcom Family YMCA
Bellingham, Washington

“Barb Gormley's latest Nordic walking book is a wealth of fantastic ideas, pro tips, lesson plans, instructional videos, and more. The easy-to-read format and the interesting stories that Barb and the contributing instructors share flow from page to page and make reading fun. I learned a lot, and I'm feeling inspired!”

Peter Vavougios
Physiotherapist
Action Sport Physio
Montreal, Quebec

“If teaching Nordic walking is something you want to pursue as a business, this book is a must-have. Reading these pages will make you an expert in no time!”

Margaret Martin
Physiotherapist
Ottawa, Ontario

About the Author

Barb Gormley is the director of education for Vancouver, Canada’s Urban Poling Inc. and has been training Nordic walking instructors since 2008. An internationally-recognized Nordic walking expert, Barb is also a veteran personal trainer and group exercise instructor. She is the author of The Urban Poling Ultimate Guide to Nordic Walking and The Urban Poling Ultimate Guide to Nordic Walking For Instructors. She teaches Nordic walking classes in her hometown of Toronto and a popular online Zoom Fitness with Poles exercise class. Contact her at www.barbgormley.com.