XWalk: Nordic Walking Tracker

XWalk is a Nordic Walking App, designed for those that do Scandinavian walking also known as stick walking, pole walking, urban polling and exerstriding. The walking tracker app allows you to do pace monitoring, walking calorie counting, set walking goals and in the future connect with nordic walking groups in your area.

The app is a walking workout, with an extra push. Nordic walking app (XWalk) was designed for the purpose of helping people lose weight, improve mental state by doing outdoor walking exercise and ideal to train for those that are cross country walking, hiking or trekking.

XWalk Features include: 
- Keep track of your walking distance, pace monitoring and calories burned 
- Set customized reminders to never miss a walk
- Lose weight by keeping track of calories and progress
- Get inspired with clear goals utilizing famous treks around the world! 
- See your progress on daily, weekly and monthly
- Add your Nordic walking group to schedule events (coming soon).

The benefits of stick walking includes: 
- Engaging 90% of muscles 
- Helps with stability
- Pole walking is associated with reduction of chronic pain, muscle strength and flexibility 
- Low impact which decreases the chance of injury

Privacy Notice: 
-  Access to location is required in background for the app to work properly
-  All data is kept private and secure on your device
-  No location data will ever be shared third parties 

Equipment Needed:
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Nordic Poles
- Walking tracker which is the XWalk App

Challenge yourself to walk (exterstriding) all 25 famous walks, increase your distance or lose calories, either way this app is surly to get you started and hopefully keep you checking off your walking goals!

The Nordic Walking App can be used in many different ways:
- to keep track of your stick walking distance on a daily, weekly or monthly basis for those aspiring to get stronger and fitter.
- for people who want to lose weight but hate the idea of going to a gym, pole walking has been known to help people get started! The app helps you keep track of calories burned.
- Travelers who plan on embarking on a life changing journey to hike one of the many famous treks can use the app by walking the distance of famous locations without leaving their cities!

Nordic walk refers to walking with poles to balance your walking stride. It allows for perfect placement and movements of both upper body and lower body as you engage with fitness walking with poles. Walking workout can be used as a cross country walking, as part of group walks with a Nordic pole to making walking workout a full body workout. Nordic walking training is not needed, as you do not need walking training. All you need is a pair of walking shoes and trekking pole (also known as walking pole, hiking stick). You also do not need to be doing mountain trekking or extensive hiking to benefit from Scandinavian walking.