Nordic Walking

[lenkakrivankova]

Dear Team,

Please add Nordic Walking as an activity. 

There is quite a lot of Nordic Walkers out there, using Strava. We are neither walking, nor running.

Thank you for consideration.

Lenka 🇨🇿

Certified Nordic Walking Instructor

[mfizyczka]

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.

[CEO44]

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.  

[veritas]

For all the supporters out there, please remember to give a "kudos" below the initial post, so Strava team can hear our voice!

[StoneLife]

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. 

For the Strava-Team:

Please check out from the net there are lot of information about this topic. 
Nordic-Walking at wikipedia 
A German Science Page about this sport from Institute of technology - a german walking institut 
One of the many german main pages 
I found also some in other languages e.g. British Nordic Walking 

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.) 

[AJR]

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?!