STRIDING®
The Striding Philosophy
When Indigenous Australians “Go on Walkabout,” they undertake a spiritual journey to a Belonging Place to renew their relationship with their “Dreaming” and the Landscape. The land is their life, their mother, their way, their nourishment, and their spiritual connectedness.
Striding® invites you to come “Walkabout” with us and enter our “Dreaming.” Awaiting you is an inspiring ancient quest for complete health and sacred belongingness. Striding® will take your mind, body and soul on a holistic journey of self discovery and physical awareness.
Practicing Striding® helps you to gain understanding and respect for the equally important physical and mental aspects of life that are closely interconnected for achieving and maintaining good health and wellbeing.
Accepting this journey requires courage. Completing this journey requires bravery.
Striding® is taking health and fitness to another plane, touching participants on an emotional and spiritual level.
Our goal is a wellbeing that encompasses the entire person, achieving holistic health and functional fitness.
Striding®, devised by Australian Nikki Wheeler and Italian Fausto Cherubini, is the newest concept in group fitness. A training program performed on a revolutionary eco-friendly and space efficient non-motorized treadmill. There is no need for electrical energy for the treadmill to work, only energy generated by human kinetic movement. Striding is a 50 minute indoor group lesson which simulates a walk through a gently sloping landscape, varying stride pace and stride length according to the musical tempo chosen for each section of the lesson.
Striding is an environmentally sensitive training program, committed to offering an alternate and more motivating cardio workout to that of the traditional 20 minute run on the power treadmill. Striding eliminates the need for electricity to power the machines which is good news for the environment and a significant training advantage.
Fausto Cherubini and Nikki Wheeler have run and owned health clubs in Rome – Italy for many years; in their facility, they have developed and employed the Striding system applying their personal experience in club managing, group fitness class instruction, and client services to develop a system aimed at boosting club productivity. Additionally, the Striding System is designed to breathe a breath of fresh air into a weary fitness industry and offer an effective, fun and stimulating training program for clients of all ages and fitness levels.
The goal of the International Striding Academy is to technically, practically and holistically educate fitness instructors in group fitness exercise to music on Striding Treadmills. In so doing, we create skilled fitness professionals in this natural, simple, innovative, stimulating, motivating and effective group fitness discipline.
Striding believes in bringing fitness to the whole community, inviting individuals of all ages and fitness levels to train together in the safety and convenience of their health club facility.
The use of a stylized boomerang in our logo is no coincidence, the Striding philosophy of bringing business back to the fitness industry, employment for instructors and health to the wider community, follows the path of a launched boomerang. Throw it with skill and it will come back to you, throw it with skill and purpose and it will come back bearing fruit.
It’s been a long time since the Fitness Industry has seen something truly original and innovative in the world of group fitness. Striding allows clubs worldwide to service a large number of clients whilst offering real and individual health benefits to each class participant, in a safe, motivating and social environment.
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it."
Soren Kierkegaar
International Striding System
1/14 Canora Street Blackburn South VIC 3130
AUSTRALIA
A.S.D. International Striding Academy
Via di Portonaccio, 184/C
00159 Roma
www.stridingsystem.com
info@stridingsystem.com
tel. +39 3498477682
P.IVA 09246781000
Education enquires:
info@stridingsystem.com
tel. +39. 06.43.68.01.59
fax. +39. 06.43.59.95.66