What is Sport Walking?
Sport Walking is walking strongly with a purpose for fitness, challenge or adventure. It’s not a walking technique, it’s an approach to walking that’s about moving fast and challenging yourself.
Sport Walking is made for trails and the great outdoors but the exact methods and tactics that might carry an experienced Sport Walker across difficult terrain for long distances are also hugely effective simply for building fitness and that’s what we teach in our Get Sport Walking™ sessions.
Meet your Coach
Our sessions in the New Forest area are hosted by Sport Walk’s founder – Roger Burlinson.
Roger’s an extremely experienced Sport Walker and he personally developed the Sport Walk Method™, so you’ll be learning from the master himself.
Roger’s Sport Walking CV is impressive. He completed the South Downs Way (100 miles) non-stop in under 28 hours and has numerous other challenges to his name but above all else, he’s an expert Sport Walking Coach and can bring the best out of anyone.
Sport Walk New Forest Sessions
Our weekly Get Sport Walking sessions in the New Forest are launching this winter. If you’d like more information or to reserve a place, just complete the form below and we’ll let you know as soon as they go live.
Get Sport Walking
Dibden Purlieu
Session Price: £12
A 90 minute weekly coached Sport Walking session with technique instruction and a workout walk, to build real functional fitness. Full session details below.
Get Sport Walking
Blackfield & Langley
Session Price: £12
A 90 minute weekly coached Sport Walking session with technique instruction and a workout walk, to build real functional fitness. Full session details below
Basic Session Info
We offer weekly coached sessions on an ongoing basis (this isn’t a fixed period course) giving you both a workout walk and technique development, transforming your capability and building real functional fitness.
Sessions are run outside on trails or in traffic free environments, with both space to practice technique adaptations and a ‘workout loop’ for the Sport Walking itself.
There’s dedicated time to develop and perfect technical aspects, so you’ll always progress, whatever your ability level and space at the beginning and end to ask questions or catch up on your development with your Sport Walk Instructor.
Each week you’ll learn a new element of technique or refresh knowledge gained already, so that you progress at your own pace. Following the session introduction with your Instructor, you’ll have a structured warm up period followed by that week’s instruction focus, where you’ll learn a new technique adaptation or aspect of Sport Walking that will benefit you and then you’ll have time to practice with the help of your Instructor.
From there, it’s onto the workout section of the session and by this time you’ll already be fully warmed up and ready to do some good work! Your Instructor will have set out a simple course to follow, so that you can just focus on walking strongly and, also, implementing anything you’ve learned beforehand.
After the workout section of the session, there is a short warm down walk and Q&A, so you can feed back on how it felt or get clarification from your Instructor. Finally, there will be guidance on what to practice in your own time and, also what sort of distance or time targets to set yourself until the next session.
You will benefit from regular weekly attendance because this is how to achieve consistency, a really important factor in successfully building fitness. But because Get Sport Walking is an ongoing program, there’s no pressure to commit to a block of sessions in advance and you don’t need to worry if you miss a session because all the techniques and other information are repeated regularly, to help you embed and then refine what you learn.
The Sport Walk Method™
Central to our Sport Walking sessions is the Sport Walk Method™, which is all about making simple adaptations to the way you already walk normally, making it more effective and more efficient and this truly opens up the potential to build real fitness just by walking.
You’ll learn how to add power to your stride, to propel you along with greater speed at a reduced effort and you’ll understand how to handle hills and descents so neither get the better of you.
The Sport Walk Method™ is your foundation stone and it shapes everything you do when you walk, making you a stronger, faster and more efficient walker. It allows you to carry more speed efficiently so when you do work harder, your additional effort is applied more effectively.
If you like walking, you’ll love Sport Walking, so come and join us for a workout walk and discover your true potential!
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Find out more about Sport Walk and Sport Walking on our YouTube channel, Facebook page or Instagram. You can also follow Roger on Instagram via @thesportwalkcoach If you’d like further information about any of our Get Sport Walking sessions, you can email us at info@sportwalk.net