Happy New Year, Nordic skiers! With 2026’s arrival and months of winter ahead, many of us are making New Year’s resolutions ...

With more than 200 kilometers of rolling corduroy, a world-famous Nordic festival and designation as an Olympic cross-country ...

Editor’s note: The free Nordic lessons outlined below have been canceled due to a lack of snow. Continuing a three-decade tradition, Grand Nordic is offering the first of two free lesson sessions ...

Minnesotans helped drive worldwide recreation trends this year, most notably stacking up the miles on runs and walks. In 2025, running was the dominant activity, walking increased and evidence ...

My mother often talks about her early years on the outskirts of Woolwine, Virginia — in the early to mid-1950s. She was just a young girl then, but already part of something admirable. Her mother and ...

Kids ages 5-14 can sign up for cross country ski lessons at the Spirit Mountain Nordic Center. Lessons run on Sundays for six weeks starting Jan. 4. Lessons for grades K-3 are 1:30-2:30 p.m. and ...

In Europe and other spots around the globe, it's common to see people striding around the countryside with trekking poles in hand. Many folks even click their way through city centers with these poles ...

Everyone knows walking is good for you, and many of us count our daily steps. But is it better to take a longer walk than a comparable number of steps spread across the day? A multinational team of ...

Learning a new skill is all about putting one foot in front of the other. That's especially true for community members who have been learning about the practice of Nordic walking from one local expert ...

When people overextend their step length, it leads to an increase in vertical movement and braking force. The overextension elevates landing impacts, which may increase pain in the knees or lower back ...

Extending the length of your daily walks can benefit your heart, new research suggests. In a study conducted among healthy adults, people who accumulated most of their daily steps in bouts of 15 ...

"I've been working my whole life for this moment," Bella joked in the BTS video Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began as a contributor for PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the ...