Today I'm going to show you about trekking poles why how and which some people think trekking poles are just for old people trekking poles can help people of all ages and make their hiking so much safer easier and healthier the reason why you need trekking poles is is that they help take the weight of your knees and when you're going up and down hills, particularly with a backpack it really helps I mean when you're going down you can lower yourself they're like shock absorbers so it takes the pressure off your knees. walking canes near me cane accessories near me best walking sticks for hiking walking sticks for hiking near me walking sticks for balance best walking sticks for seniors.

It also helps take the weight off your hips when you've got a heavy backpack and it really makes the walk so much better you don't feel so tired and it also helps with stability so you're less likely to fall over you keep your balance you're less likely to twist your ankle because you're less likely to slip on a rock Dynamo Walking Stick how do you use trekking poles well the first thing is you need to have the right grip so basically it's a bit like skiing poles you need to put your hand through that like that and then hold it like that again so there's the band hand goes through and then down and grip like this I'll do another one here so you put your hand through the loop like that and then grip down like that.survival walking stick walking sticks for hiking walking sticks for women cane accessories canes near me walking canes for women best women's walking cane canes for women.

So you've got the band on the back of your wrist like that taking the weight so when you put the poles in the ground and you've got more support for your hand and all the you're not gripping the poles too tightly with your hand that means if you were to fall over but this wave checking poles fell away there'll be no harm so it's important you grip them like that so that's the grip the other thing is when you're going uphill these Walking Cane trekking poles you can set the height of the trekking poles you want the trekking poles so that your your arm is sort of at a right angle when you've got the trekking pole like this it's at a right angle so when you're going uphill you need to shorten the poles so you can shorten the poles by moving this that's the length from the poles when i'm going downhill i have them longer when i'm going uphill i have them shorter because obviously when they go in the ground they need to be shorter so that your your arm is still at the right angle so you shorten them depending on whether you're going uphill or downhill so use the pulse by putting the opposite pole into the ground to the leg that's moving that sounds confusing but i'll show you exactly what it is it makes perfect sense because with trekking poles you've now got four legs instead of two effectively so to spread the weight you want the pole on the other side of the leg that's moving.