Get Inspired: BBC Breakfast's Mike Bushell tries Nordic Walking
BBC Breakfast's Mike Bushell has been on the trail of the "four-legged creatures putting a spring in the step of the humble walk".
In Dorset, Mike met up with the some of Britain's Nordic Walkers.
"You can quickly see how it's putting a whole workout into a walk, a ramble," he says.
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