I like the fact this is a largely a white man's pursuit, and I like how everyone say Hi to each other on the trails. I ALSO hate running but turns out walking up mountains is pretty damn fire for your cardio. Skinny white people who eat healthy is what I see on the trails and I love it, pic is from New Zealand.
>>2847432Welcome home. It's also fun when you start to notice your stamina improving.
>>2847432Good for you mate. NZ has some real nice hiking.
>>2847432>Skinny white people who eat healthy is what I see on the trails and I love it, pic is from New Zealand.I'm fat and I've been day hiking for yearskill memy stamina does slowly increase but im still turbo slow
>>2847514It does and it's isolated from the rest of the world which is lovely.>>2847514I've hiked thinner and I've hiked fatter and I honestly felt like being a bit chunkier meant I overheated more, got tired easier, all the usual stuff, you can still do it though and you still make the effort.
>>2847514I'm fat and I've been hiking regularly since I was a kid. I can outpace about 85-90% of the people on my trail crew and I regularly pass anyone I see on the trail. Even my gym friends struggle to keep up on a hike, and I don't understand that because I'd consider myself very unhealthy. >>2847541I definitely overheat easily.
>>2847542>I can outpace about 85-90% of the peopleI was slow hiking as a kid even when I was rail thinI have something going on with my connective tissue and muscle being poorly developed genetically that my weight has only made harderbut um, ive lost no weight at all hiking, though my medical numbers feel like they could be worse given my weightand i max out at around 800-900 ft of elevation gain and 4-5 mi for the most part - ive done more, but not often
>34 >love going up hill>will happily be breathing out my ass and sweating into my eyes all day if it means I can avoid going downhill and feeling like my knees will explode.Send help
>>2847549Man, speed isn't anything. Is it important to you? I can spend and entire day walking 4 miles because I stop to peer into the grass and try and remember WTF that plant is, or look at trees and try to figure out why they grew a certain way, looks some bedding planes in the rock and wonder at the span of time between two next to each other which are entirely different or stop and listen to flowing water. I don't find head down and fast hiking as rewarding as any of that stuff, unless I have the mind to do it as physical training/accomplishment.
>>2847554I started jogging downhill. it helps/
>>2847557Honestly I'd feel less pain barrel-rolling down hill than going down on my legs, thanks tho.
>>2847556im super slow and close to death doing any sort of exertion
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>>2847554Use trekking poles
