Training Regime Tips?

[tunafishsandwich]

I'd like to know how some of you are training for an AT thru-hike. I've been putting myself on a running regiment of 4-5 times a week with some weight training on the side. What does everyone else do?

[Boat Drinks]

Been doing a tread mill with the incline set to max and MPH set to 3mph. I'll do this until I can't breath anymore, rest and do it again, lather, rinse repeat....

[Pacific Tortuga]

IT HAS GONE IN THE DUMP LATELY, friend and silent partner (i thought) had employee problems this last month and gave them a hand full of rocks ... to

kick on down the road. This is a quarter of my hiking finances so I have been kicking in and training new help. I hope to get back to my 25-35 mile weeks

with pack next week. Aint nothin going to stop me now nothin !

[Kerosene]

Your best training will be to get out there with a slightly heavier than typical pack and do the miles on several shake-down hikes. Failing that, do what you're doing, but consider adding more squats, twisting lunges, and ankle stabilization exercises. Change the incline on your treadmill runs every few minutes, slowing your speed to accommodate.

If you do coralrive's regimen, then make sure that you have your toes pointed slightly outward when the treadmill is inclined. Otherwise you run the risk of pulling your Achilles tendons. The same holds true for climbing on the trail, a lesson that I had to learn the hard way.

[Old Grouse]

Wait a minute. Didnt we just learn from Greg Huse that we need to hire personal trainers and start drinking his juice supplements?

[Boat Drinks]

If you do coralrive's regimen, then make sure that you have your toes pointed slightly outward when the treadmill is inclined. Otherwise you run the risk of pulling your Achilles tendons. The same holds true for climbing on the trail, a lesson that I had to learn the hard way.

Always stretch before AND after the workout, your muscles will thank you that evening!

Wait a minute. Didnt we just learn from Greg Huse that we need to hire personal trainers and start drinking his juice supplements?

ROFLMAO

[carolina trekker]

I do the treadmill with loaded backpack. Also spend alot of time on the stair climber.

[Newb]

Stop bathing. Start living on a diet of ramen and foil packet foods. Drink only water, except for every 3 to 4 days. Every 3 to 4 days you should pig out at a local "all you can eat" restaurant and down a bunch of beers. Put a piece of plywood on the floor and start sleeping on that. Go to Petco, buy a bunch of mice and release them in your bedroom. Start pooping in little holes in your back yard.
Oh, yeah, walk a lot, too.

[Mags]

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/show...425#post184425

Sorry, no mention of juice ads.

[mrc237]

I've turned myself into a ""Mallie" walking around an inside mall about 20 minutes a loop 8X. I live near the shore way too cold and windy the Mall is climate controlled may start using Weightvest soon with 20 lbs. Hopefully I'm not mistaken for a terrorist. Not planning a thru just wanna drop some ugly pounds.

[Lone Wolf]

I've turned myself into a ""Mallie" walking around an inside mall about 20 minutes a loop 8X. I live near the shore way too cold and windy the Mall is climate controlled may start using Weightvest soon with 20 lbs. Hopefully I'm not mistaken for a terrorist. Not planning a thru just wanna drop some ugly pounds.

you need to come to damascus and enroll in the lone wolf AT training camp.

[carolina trekker]

you need to come to damascus and enroll in the lone wolf AT training camp.

Specializing in the 12 oz curls

[Toolshed]

you need to come to damascus and enroll in the lone wolf AT training camp.

LW, What time do your Telesummits begin - I don't want a Scheduling conflict with my Greg Huse Invitational AT Telesummit!!!! Get back to my Personal Assistant and Trainer and they will blackberry me. Otherwise I am much too important to talk now.

PS, Can I pay $249 and bring my purse poodle??

[T-Dubs]

then make sure that you have your toes pointed slightly outward when the treadmill is inclined. Otherwise you run the risk of pulling your Achilles tendons.

This is the first I've heard of this toe-orientation. I've had some pain in my Achilles for awhile now and was wondering what may be the cause. The doctor says it's tendonitis. I've been slightly pigeon-toed all my life so now I'm thinking I may have to be more conscious of how I walk.

I'd hate to think of rehabbing one of those 'catastrophic injuries'.

Thanks for that bit of information.

Tom

[mrc237]

Pumping aluminum and glass is too hard for me. Push aways is the method for me

[Blissful]

I tried running and wrecked my knees when I switched to hiking (uses muscles and ligaments in different ways). Of course you're young though. I'm strictly hiking - around the neighborhood, that is, and on trails when I can get out. I did 5 miles today and we have some good hills around here. I had been carrying my pack until my back acted up from snow tubing. Will try again this weekend. Doing stretching too.

[Programbo]

I was lucky back in the day because in my late teens up to the age of 20 I had a HUGE morning newspaper route of like 400-500 papers which required me to walk like 6 miles every morning carrying all those papers in one of those belts (We never had bags)..Lots of hills too....But later when I did "train" (I don`t think anyone actually trained back then aside from just going hiking) I would always carry way more weight than I planned to on an actual hike

[SalParadise]

i admire you guys who are exercising and getting in shape before your hike. only exercise i did to prepare was a walk between the barstool and the bathroom, but that first hill I hit I wondered if maybe I hadn't thought it through enough.

not that anyone here is especially looking for it, but what would have helped me is a lot of calf raises and maybe extra protein sources in your food bag to start--after about a week my legs would really start to shake, especially downhill, just from being overworked and lack of nutrients.

[GlazeDog]

I use a stair stepper with loaded pack. But I program my weight in without pack added in and also under-estimate my age by a couple years--not even sure if that age thing does anything different, but what the hell. I also cross country ski in winter. That is amazing for developing muscles used in balance left to right--and of course aerobic too. But nothing beats time out on the trail with loaded pack. The trail will get you in shape. PLan for shorter days at the beginning (2 weeks).

GlazeDog

[iafte]

I'm training right now for a hike in late April and I just dance to ONJ's Physical for about 30 minutes then recreate Flashdance. Wife hates it because of all the water I get on the rug.




















Actually, I started parking on the top floor of the parking garage and take the steps. I then do 30 min on the bike when I get home. Will step it up about every 2 weeks or so. My kids make me do sit ups and push ups a few times a week with them. It's so funny, it takes them a while to get me going but then they complain because I don't stop when they think it's time to rest. Most nights they walk away and I finish alone.