by Lee Welton | Jun 4, 2020 | trailside fitness, Uncategorized, Workouts
Strengthen Your Shins With These Easy Exercises Strengthen your shins with these easy exercises to help reduce trip and falls and avoid shin splints. The big muscle on the front of the shin helps to pick up your foot when your walking. It also helps to slow down the...
by Lee Welton | May 28, 2020 | trailside fitness, Uncategorized, Workouts
Cardio and endurance training for hikers Why is cardio and endurance training for hikers to important? By doing some “off foot” training, you can decrease stress on your joints and improve your hiking performance. I’ll give you some simple workouts...
by Lee Welton | May 21, 2020 | trailside fitness, Uncategorized, Workouts
Exercises Hikers Should Avoid And Better Options Today we’re going to discuss exercises hikers should avoid and better options. This is especially important if you’re training for a long-distance hike. There are plenty of exercises for hikers, but which...
by Lee Welton | May 14, 2020 | trailside fitness, Uncategorized, Workouts
Training For Hiking With No Hills How would you go about training for hiking with no hills to help you out? Today I have a quick tip for you that will give you a simple and effective solution for training. My all time favorite way to train for a hike will always be...
by Lee Welton | May 7, 2020 | trailside fitness, Uncategorized, Workouts
Increase your hiking speed with Fartlek intervals Using Fartlek intervals is an easy and very effective way to improve your hiking endurance and speed. Fartelk means “speed play” in Swedish and it’s a really simple interval method to add into any...
by Lee Welton | Apr 30, 2020 | Common Aches and Pains, trailside fitness, Uncategorized
“No Pain, No Gain” Mentality Can End Your Hike How can the no pain, no gain mentality end your hike? Excellent question. Your body is quite complex and science is still sorting out just how pain and other systems work. With a lot of chronic injuries the...
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