'Nordic' walking technique can help you burn almost 40% more calories

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Weight loss guidance can be overwhelming, with many exercise fads promising to help you shift the pounds quickly.While intense gym sessions aren't essential, even a simple walk can help tip the scales in your favour.Nordic walking, a fitness craze with roots in Scandinavia, is now sweeping the UK, celebrated for its ability to speed up weight loss and tone muscles.

A University of Verona study involving 38 participants who took up Nordic walking for six months observed significant decreases in body fat and waist size.This exercise style incorporates poles, ensuring a full-body workout.

The British Nordic Walking group claims it can "burn 20% more calories compared to walking without poles", offering an effective way to boost calorie burn.Moreover, Nordic walking is known to relieve neck and shoulder tension, improve posture, and fortify back muscles.The national walking organisation WALX has extolled the virtues of Nordic Walking, emphasising that it uses 90% of major muscles and "improves posture, body tone and speeds up metabolism" for "fast results".

They added, "Working more muscles means using more energy - it is possible to burn between 20% and 40% more calories than you would walking without poles.