LEKI SUPREME Nordic Walking Poles 2620
Your interest in LEKI Nordic Walking Poles will pay a handsome dividend in personal wellness. You'll walk away from mental stress while reducing pressure on your joints. Plus, you'll be burning more calories and enhancing the cardio aspects of your workout—without walking faster or longer.
Nordic Walking began as a summer training exercise for serious "cross country" skiers. Fitness walkers in Europe adopted Nordic Walking as a time-efficient, low-stress, total body workout. Nordic Walking's popularity is growing with walking clubs and instructors leading classes across the United States.
LEKI SUPREME Nordic Walking Poles features:
- TONW 2620
- 16/14 mm aluminum HTS 5.5
- COR-TEC Trigger 1 Grip
- Trigger 1 Strap
- Easy Lock / Super Lock System
- Carbide Flextip with Rubber Fitness Lite Tip
- Ultra Sonic Finish
- Nordic Basket - interchangeable Basket System
Live to walk. Walk to live.
- Burn up to 40% more calories during your walk
- Pump up your cardio by increasing oxygen consumption up to 25%
- Reduce stress to your knees and lower joints
- Reduce heel strike force by up to 26%
- Strengthen your upper body and create resistance to build better bone density
- Distance and intensity can be adapted to weather, terrain, and physical condition of the individual
THE LEGEND OF LEKI:
LEKI, the world's leading manufacturer of ski, hiking and trekking poles had its start in Kircheim, Germany as a hobby of its founder, Karl Lenhart, an airframe mechanic and avid skier. Lenhart believed aluminum would make a superior ski pole compared to the heavy steel models available in the late 1940's. After successfully creating light- weight poles for his friends, in 1954, the hobby became a full time business.
LEKI originated the use of nylon webbing for straps and created plastic molded grips and baskets in place of metal and leather. Additionally, Lenhart developed an aluminum tempering process that produces pole shaft with incomparable strength, durability, and reliability.
In 1984, Klaus Lenhart, Karl's son assumed leadership and shortly there after developed the first dual- component grip. He is also responsible for improving adjustable pole-locking technology and grip innovations such as the Trigger "Click-In" system and COR-TEC, a material made of real cork and latex.
As the ski market continued to flourish, LEKI began manufacturing hiking poles primarily for European mountain guides. The concept of using two poles as means of relieving stress on knee joints and the lower back appealed to climbers who also saw benefits in performance and safety. LEKI poles eventually caught on with the general hiking and trekking population that recognized and appreciated the preventive health benefits as well as the climbing support and stabilizing effects. In 1990, LEKI USA was incorporated. The North American market has embraced the company's line of alpine, Nordic, back country, mountaineering, Nordic walking, and trekking poles. Like their European counterparts who have been loyal to LEKI for nearly five decades, North American outdoor enthusiasts know and appreciate LEKI quality and value.
