The Urban Poling Ultimate Guide To Nordic Walking FOR INSTRUCTORS

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, cool-downs, 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.