More Suggestions on Exerstriding Groups

Starting an Exerstriding group can be as easy as talking to your family members, friends and neighbors. If you know others who might like to walk for their health, ask them:

* If they’d like to burn 20-70% more calories with each stride?
* If they’d like to build stronger abs, back, shoulders and chest muscles while they walk?
* Remind them both men and women can help keep upper body bones stronger if they add poles to their walks.
* If you know anyone who says they can’t walk because their hips, knees or feet hurt when they walk, tell them they really need to give Exerstriding a try.

Start with the Simple Exerstrider Demonstration

Show those you’d like to join your group our Exerstrider “handshake on the table” demonstration:

Have them stand facing a counter top or sit facing a desk or table. Ask them to extend their arm out as though extending it for a friendly handshake and to then make a fist and place it on the counter, table or desk with their thumb up. Have them press their fist down against the surface.

Most people “really get it” when they do this Exerstrider demonstration so it should be easy to grow a group when you:

* Ask them to notice all the large upper body muscles that contract when they do this.
* Remind them similar contractions will occur approximately 1,800 times per mile when they Exerstride.
* Notice the muscles they didn’t even know they had working.

Share the Exerstrider Instructional Video

Another idea is to order a copy of our Exerstrider instructional video and printed manual. Invite your family and friends to do the Exerstrider demonstration and watch the video. Once they realize how much they stand to benefit from making walking a real total body exercise, they’re likely to join your IWIYW (I Will If You Will) Exerstriding club.
More Exerstrider Ideas

* Activate Your Club – if you belong to existing clubs or service organizations invite members to form a sub-group committed to better health, weight-loss and fellowship.
* Work Breaks – if people at work are always talking about needing to be healthier and more active, challenge them to commit to Exerstride during the lunch hour, or before or after work. (If they’re not interested in Exerstriding, start out by walking. Once they see the added results others get from using their poles they just might decide to join your IWIYW Exerstrider club.)
* Weight Loss Groups – if you’re a member of Weight Watchers, TOPS, or similar health and fitness groups, be sure to share how Exerstriding can help them accelerate the attainment of their goals.
* Walking Clubs – if you belong to a walking club whose members walk for health and not for competition, it will be easy to convince many of them that Exerstriding will give them more return on the time they have already committed to walking for fitness.

Many public schools and libraries will allow you to use a room for meetings to form a group. Many newspapers and radio and TV stations offer opportunities for PSAs (public service announcements). Get a room, put out a PSA and get people who are interested in fitness walking together. Have them do the Exerstrider “handshake on the table” demonstration and show them the videotape. You might have an instant IWIYW Exerstrider club in action at that first meeting!

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