[pct-l] Trekking poles

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

It reduced the strain (of knees and such) AND allowed me to walk in a  
way that atrophied some of my natural walking muscles. May not happen  
to you, but I hurt myself early on and started babying myself and the  
poles made that VERY easy to do. I haven't been able to walk the same  
since, although sometimes I think I'm getting better at walking  
normal again.

On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Bob Sartini wrote:

> "atrophy some of your
>> walking muscles"  from using poles? That is just not true.    
>> Reducing the strain is not atrophying.
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