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Race Walking
Race Walking is part of athletics, you walk as fast as possible on a certain distance, keeping at least one foot on the ground permanently, and a tight leg while moving the pelvis.
There are two categories of walking : race walking and long distance race walking.
In general, race walking trials that are less than 10 kilometers take place on a race track. From 10 to 50 kilometers, races take place on roads. The 50 kilometers race is an Olympic Games race since 1952, but will disappear in 2024.
Most of the time, you walk at least 100 kilometers on long distance races. And 450 kilometers on famous races.
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Sport Walking
Sport walking is different from the everyday walk. Sport walking is a conscious walk. The pace is more intense : you develop your breathing system, your endurance, and nearly all your muscles. It is mostly a physical activity you practise on specific urban grounds, without any elevation gain. But in reality, you can practise on very different fields and grounds : paths, parks, roads, stadiums, and even... indoor on a treadmill.
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Nordic walking
It is a physical activity you can practise outdoors with two walking poles, tips behind you to help go forward quickly as in cross-country skiing. It is well known that nordic walking requests 80% of our muscular chain.
It existed for decades, and became a sport thanks to Marko Kantaneva, a Finnish monitor. In 1994, he created a method to walk with poles like in cross-country skiing, with sets of exercises to maintain and improve different physical competences. It is an instant success. In France, nordic walking is a sport affiliated to the "Fédération Française d’Athlétisme" (FFA).
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Urban Commuting
Urban Commuting is a great way to go from one place to another. You can walk and also take another means of transport like a bike, a scooter, the bus or the subway. It has become a social phenomenon because of ever growing cities. And the fact that people drive less inside cities. Our environmental consciousness and health consciousness are helping a lot to develop this physical activity. People know walking is good for the body and mind. As well as race walking, fitness walking offers a lot of benefits to the body. The need for good equipment is the same as the one for race walking, as people can walk... more than 7 kilometers a day (around 10 000 footsteps).
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Meditative Walking
The vague innovation... the meditation innovation... is growing. The general idea is to stay focused on walking, to let ideas come and go on the way. Meditative walking allows people to walk with some kind of automatic pilot and to reconnect to their body and mind, and then to achieve a certain kind of serenity.
Afghan Walkingr
Afghan Walking was born in the 1980's with Edouard Stiegler, a french researcher, who observed the Afghan caravan drivers. Those drivers walk more than 60 kilometers a day and for more than 10 days… Thanks to a technique based on the coordination between breathing and footsteps's pace.
Aqua Walking
Also called seashore walking, aqua walking is a physical activity you practise along the seashore. The upper and lower body get the benefit of water resistance. This method protects people's joints from pain as people walk inside a soft and supple area.