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Thank you for visiting our page and browsing our website. Our walks are based around Derby and Ashbourne area as well as delivering long walks in the Peak District. We love to empower people of all ages and abilities to be regularly active in the outdoors and offer many different levels of weekly walks. Our shared enjoyment of the great outdoors and our beautiful county and parklands gives us many opportunities to feel amazing! If you want to improve your fitness, boost your mood and meet other people on gorgeous walks then we have a solution for you. One thing for sure is that you are never alone on a WALX.
WALX Derwent and Dales is a fitness walking group offering a wide range of WALX around Derby, Ashbourne and the Peak District. Started by Sam Armstrong in 2008 and supported by her dedicated and caring team with warm and welcoming members. Always very driven and motivated to bring new and innovative ideas into our WALX which include Total Body WALX, Wellness WALX and Explorer WALX offering a full and varied schedule for pole walkers and non-pole walkers including the use of Smoveys, Bungypump poles, Speedhyking to ramp up the pace and to slow us down a little – Tai Chi Movements for Wellbeing or to flex your legs and body Yoga WALX. The classes are tailored to support the needs of the individual and any medical needs they may have or fitness goals they may want to achieve. Offering Virtual sessions alongside to compliment your whole body fitness programme and to make it suit your own schedule. Qualified and experienced leaders will provide a memorable Explorer WALX in the Derbyshire Dales, Peak District or further afield whilst the fabulous local parks provide the perfect outdoor gym for our Total Body and Wellness WWALX. Our aim is to make it fun as we walk and talk, very sociable (often a pub or a cafe on the Explorer WALX) and you'll miss it if you can't attend so you want more! We also deliver walking breaks in the UK and Europe to experience many of the wonders of our great outdoors. Our Festival walking events are for three days in the Peak District supported by our team of locally qualified Instructors and Guides. Like the sound of it and want to try it? Use the filter search below: Set your LOCATION and how far you want to travel for great WALX Search Open WALX to just come along and try a session Search Power of Poles to feel the total body benefit. If you have any questions contact Sam at sam@walxderwentdales.co.uk 07860478409 “Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do stop exercising because we grow old, we grow old because we stop exercising”. Kenneth H Coop