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I totally support the idea. Nordic Walking involves more / different muscles than Hikking. Different calories are burnt. Also the speed is totally different then with stick-less walking.
Needs to be a separate activity. Totally different from walking. I'm fed up with having to falsely record my Nordic Walks as as Hikes to stop getting false records on segments.
As I'm doing sport within an athletics club in Germany I started to add my tracking to Strava. But always it's so annoying that I can not differentiate my Nordic-Walking tracking and statistics from the running, hiking and just have a walk (e.g. with my grandma or daughter). The Nordic-Walking is a real own sport here in Europe since decades. It trains a lot more muscles than only walking or running because it's done with extra sticks with a specific technique. There are also a lot of competitions in this sports around the year. Additional to that I would like to let you know that there is also a difference of the sticks between hiking and nordic-walking sticks.
So PLEASE, you have to add this extra sport! It is more sport than some other which you have available already. If you have this kind of sport available I am willing to start a paid membershipt for me and my whole familiy. (My husband uses it for cycling, my 2 sons and one daughter for running, my parents are also a nordic-walker.)
Excellent idea. Just had my first session today, on a route I have walked and ran many times before, and it feels totally different and MUST generate different statistics?!
Nordic walking is a sport activity in its own right, the world championships will take place in Finland in October. Nordic walking has a cross trainer action and works more muscles than a walk or a run. I use HIKE at the moment for activities, but I know it won’t be accurate for amount of energy used, because it won’t take into account the upper body action. There are many of us nordic walking instructors in the world teaching thousands of people the technique, and it seems a shame that there are so many variations of other activities: e bike, e mountain bike, gravel ride, hand bike…! There are far more nordic walkers than hand bikers for example so it should absolutely be an activity on Strava. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for your answers! It's always a good idea to spread this idea to collect more likes otherwise we will not reach our goal! I'll start this in my local walking community which not always using STRAVA as it doesn't support Nordic-Walking on it's own.
Thanks also for the hint with the world championship in finland. For those who are interested here is the link for the Nordic Walking World Championships I would join myself but sadly I'm on another trip at this time: hiking and Nordic-Walking in Sweden for 6 weeks.
This is my second post on this topic because I see that nothing has changed and there is still no Nordic walking activity.How can you distinguish sports such as padel, which is similar to tennis in terms of effort characteristics, and not notice how different the effort during Nordic walking is from ordinary walking or hiking? Absolutely - we look forward to adding Nordic walking to your Strava activities!
Adding nordic walking would also be beneficial for route planning, different routes are popular for different sports because some types of ground are okay for runners and bad for cyclists and vice versa. Nordic walking poles require route to be hard or soft, not mixed. People who just walk can walk on both, so their routes might not be a match for nordic walking.
Hello and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to add your votes and comments to this request.
We want to let you know that we do not intend to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future, and this feature suggestion will be moved to a status of not currently planned.
We appreciate and understand this is not the answer you were hoping for. We strive to be as transparent as possible and provide updates to our Community when they become available.
Please remember that we receive a large number of idea submissions, and even some popular ideas may not make it to the implementation stage. The number of votes an idea gets is one factor among several that’s considered when our product team develops the roadmap.
Additionally, a status of not currently planned does not mean this feature suggestion goes away. It will remain open to votes and comments, and may be revisited at some point in the future.
Lastly, we sincerely hope you will continue recording and uploading your activities to Strava. Here is a list of the Sport types that we currently support. It’s always an option to set your activity to sport type “workout” and indicate more specifics in the activity name.
Thanks again for your contributions.
Cheers, Scout (she/her) STRAVA | Community Hub Team
Die App kann ich nur nutzen, um meine gelaufene Strecke festzuhalten. Ich mache Nordic Walking. Der Kalorienverbrauch kann nicht stimmen, wenn ich gehen oder wandern eingebe. Bei vorgeschlagenen Strecken kann ich nicht erkennen, ob da auch Schotterwege dabei sind - für die Stöcke völlig ungeeignet (gibt es in meiner Umgebung recht häufig). Schade – so bleibt es halt bei der kostenlosen Mitgliedschaft.
