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How To Train For A Strenuous Hike • Nomads With A Purpose

How To Train For A Strenuous Hike • Nomads With A Purpose

If you want to be able to bag peaks effortlessly, you probably need to do a little bit of training. That's why we created a blog on how to train for a strenuous hike!

Day Hike Packing List | 13 Essentials for Hiking (& how to avoid extra bulk)

Don't get overwhelmed by bringing too many items. This day hike packing list has all the essential hiking gear you need and none of the bulk!

The 10 Hiking Essentials You Should Bring on Every Hike

The hiking 10 essentials are the important pieces of gear you should always have in your pack for a safe hike. Learn what they are & get prepared for your next hike!

How To Read Trail Blazes, Posts And Stones: HOW TO READ TRAIL MARKERS FOR HIKING

How to read trail markers for hiking trails that are hard to find or follow. Learn how to read trail blazes, posts, stones, flags and logs.

The Balkan Trail – A 5 Day Hiking Adventure Through The Peaks Of The Balkans

'Let's go on an adventure!' That's what I said to Christof somewhere around December. Both of us were completely fed

8 Different Types of Hiking Explained - The Flaneur Co

This post may contain affiliate links. This means I might earn a small commission if you click or buy something using one of the links on this page. As an...

How to Pack a Hiking Backpack or Bug Out Bag [With Infographics]

Click Here To See The Comments When packing a Hiking Bug out Bag or Backpack, it can be tempting to pack our bags with every survival item we can find to feel fully prepared. However, we must remember that we need to remain light and fast-moving on the trail. Make sure to consider the weight […]

Hiking Boots: How to Choose the Right Pair + the Best Women’s Hiking Boots

Get the scoop on the best women's hiking boots and lightweight hiking shoes and learn how to choose the best hiking footwear for you.

Beginner's Guide to Packing a Backpack for Hiking | Expert Tips to Help You Pack Like a PRO

So you’ve planned out your first overnight hiking trip. You’ve got all your essential backpacking gear. Now it’s time to pack your backpack for hiking. But does it really matter how you pack your gear

Strength Training For Hiking

Click HERE to find out how to do strength training for hiking. This post includes example exercises and schedules to help you climb that mountain!

Top Places to Hike in Greece

When hiking in Greece you'll find sea views, village trails, and towering peaks like Mount Olympus. Here are the best places to hike.

11 Most Epic Hikes in Southern California

California has one of the most diverse hiking landscapes in the US. Check out the 11 best hikes in Southern California and start planning your adventure!

Best Hikes in Washington State

These are the absolute MUST DO beginner-friendly Washington hikes! Ranging from easy to more challenging and a variety from around the state and every season.

Best Hiking Shoes for Men and Women - Detailed Danner Boots Review and Buying Guide

Wondering what are the best Danner Boots? Are they worth the cost? This Danner Boots honest review and buying guide has you covered!

Cute Hiking Outfits - What To Wear Hiking as a Woman

Confused about what to wear hiking? Learn how to be comfortable, practical, and stylish with this guide on what to wear hiking as a woman!

BEST Hiking Clothes for Women (Hiking Outfit Ideas)

A few short years ago, I would go into the outdoor stores to find very few hiking clothes for women and quite honestly a great hiking outfit for women. I

My Favorite Backpacking Gear: A Peek Into My Garage - Exploring Wild

After years of trial and error, here is the backpacking gear and hiking clothing that I return to over and over again.

The 14 Most Epic Hikes in Madeira (Including Map + Tips)

Are you looking for the best hikes in Madeira? Let me start by saying how incredibly excited I am for

Our Complete Hiking Gear Checklist: What We Use and Why

A complete breakdown of our hiking gear, including when, why, and how we use each item, and how it's performed over the years.

While all hiking can be rewarding and improve your general well being, there’s something primal within us that craves the sense of adventure and pride of the accomplishment that a strenuous hike can bring.  Many of us aren’t lucky enough to be able to go out and do a 12 miler with 2,000 vertical feet of elevation gain on a whim.  If you want to be able to bag peaks effortlessly, you probably need to do a liiiittle bitttt of training. That’s why we created a blog on how to train for a strenuous hike!PS, If you do’t have time, save this for later by saving this to Pinterest!I love to hike, but hiking strenuous trails that get me off the beaten path and lost—hopefully only in the figurative sense—in nature is one of my many joys in life.  For me, there is no better recipe for improving my overall state of well-being like stepping foot on a trail surrounded by large pine trees knowing that in a few hours I’ll be looking down upon them while standing beside a gorgeous alpine lake.Table of ContentsHow Much Cardio Is Needed To Hike Better?Less than you think, but probably more than you do.If you aren’t doing any form of cardio currently, then you will want to start with 30 minutes 3 times a week. I know you’re eager to challenge yourself but the key component with building a strong cardiovascular base is gradual progressive training.Aim to only push yourself 10% harder each week. This means, start off with walking. Once you can walk 30 minutes with ease, add a hill, add some stairs, walk in soft sand at the beach, etc.Then, start running. Try one minute on, four minutes off and repeat six times. Build up to 5 minute, then 10, 15, 20, 25 minute intervals until eventually, you are running 30 minutes at a time. Next, you can build up to running faster or adding sprint intervals.Cross training works too. You don’t have to only walk or run. Any sustained elevation in heart rate combined with a good strength training program will get you hiking more and hiking harder trails while also feeling better doing it.Strength Training for Strenuous HikesAlthough you don’t need to be an extreme athlete, nor even extremely “fit” to hike strenuous trails, there are things you can do to make your body prepared to tackle that trail that’s staring back at you on your bucket list of hikes.From a physiological standpoint, strenuous hiking requires the ability to propel yourself forward. With good mechanics, this can be accomplished by driving through the gluteals and having a strong posterior chain.But as fatigue sets in, we all end up slouched and taking shorter strides causing the hip flexors to shorten which causes us to use less butt and more calves. Poor form may still get us to that epic viewpoint, but relying on pure mental persistence takes some of the joy out of the experience. Being stronger will allow you to take in more of your surroundings and make that experience much richer.Strength in all the muscle groups is important to live a healthy life and feel good, but for hiking specifically, it’s more crucial to have strength in the posterior chain, that’s the back side of your body from you heels to the base of your spine. Think strong glutes and low back.There’s a good chance you’ll be carrying a pack up with you too, which means some strength in the mid back and rear delts will certainly help you lug your supplies up the peak or for long hours.Lastly, there’s a natural sway that happens when you walk and being able to engage the deep core muscles of the transverse abdominals and obliques will give you so much more power than training the superficial abs that crunches target.Related Blog: 26 Thoughtful Gift Ideas for HikersGabi overlooking the lakes of Wanaka from Isthmus Peak5 Exercises to Train For A Strenuous HikeTo train for a strenuous hike, here are 5 exercises to strengthen the right muscle groups in order to get better efficiency on the trail. Watch the YouTube video below for detailed description of how to execute these 5 movements.1. TYIPosture is key and if you are lugging a heavy backpack uphill, it’s going to take a little extra awareness to maintain good posture.The goal is to keep the shoulder blades pulled down and together, allowing for more space between your shoulders and ears. Strength in the mid traps will help you achieve this.The easiest exercise to do at home is TYI, but it’s also one of the easiest to do incorrectly. If you find your shoulders are tight, avoid doing the “I” and just stick with the “T” and “Y” positions.  During a long hike, it’s hard to keep good posture while staring at the ground to make sure you don’t trip, but if you remind yourself to keep your chest lifted it often helps pull the shoulders into a better position.As you get more advanced in your training, integrating rear delt pull and bent over rows will do wonders for the strength in your mid back.Related: Best Hikes in Beautiful Idaho2. Hip BridgeStrong glutes are very important. I’m sure it feels like your quads are burning as you start ascending steep mountains, but its the power in your booty that you want to be tapping into.If you have a job that requires a lot of sitting, then these muscles tend to not get enough training.I always start my workouts with hip bridges to wake up the butt muscles and get them firing correctly.  In addition, add deadlifts and kettlebell swings to your training program.3. Pistol SquatWhat goes up, must come down. There’s no better exercise for being prepared to descend steep rocky trails than the pistol squat. While a pistol squat is a pretty advanced movement, there are a few ways to work up to it in a progressive manner.My personal favorite is to use a suspension trainer to assist me in the movement. Another option is to change the weight distribution from the heels to the toes slightly and do a single leg deadlift instead.Related: The Greatest Hikes in Wyoming4. Side PlankWhen you start propelling yourself forward, you naturally have a side to side sway.If you have hypermobility (meaning very flexible) in your spine, you will develop low back pain. To counter this, strengthen the obliques.While we prefer advanced movements like CLF and pallof press, starting with a side plank is great.Related: Best Hikes in Glacier National Park5. Step UpIf you are trying to get to the top of a big mountain, there’s a good chance you are going to be stepping up some large rocks.Mimicking this movement with good form and progressively heavier weights will make climbing so much easier.As women, we have a larger Q angle than men so making sure your knee isn’t rolling inward while stepping up is crucial to develop strength and not get injured.  Stretches To Help You Hike BetterNow that you have the strength training to get up that strenuous hike, let’s take care of helping you feel good after those hikes.Everything might hurt at the end of a strenuous hike. You can nurture a few key muscles so that you hurt less. Those muscles are the chest, hip flexors, and calves.I’m a huge fan of doing a Yin Yoga once a week to get deep into the fascia and help my muscles recover better. On the other days I do these three stretches to improve my mobility and feel better.Here are 3 stretches to help your body feel better after a strenuous hike.Related: Best Yoga Poses For Hikers1. Chest Opener2. Low Lunge With A Twist3. Downward DogClick here to discover top hiking adventures on our blogFree Pack Lists, Gear Recommendations, and Hiking Trail Guides4 Week Fit To Hike Training ProgramTake Your Hiking To The Next LevelThis is an overview of what a good hiking training program should consist of. It balances your mobility, strength, and cardio so you don’t get hurt and you can recover quickly.Combining these strength, cardio, and stretching routines are a great start, but without a complete training plan, they might be leaving some gaps in your programing. Plus, everyone has a different build, a different level of fitness, different levels of experience, and different goals. What’s strenuous to me might not be so for you. That’s why we created Fit To Hike. A complete training program for hikers that will get you ready to challenge yourself on the trail. Best of all, it’s FREE inside our Be The Hero Academy!!Fit to Hike includes a 4 week training program for beginners, intermediate, and advanced hikers. All programs include cardio training, strength training, injury prevention, and tips for creating a motivated mindset. With video tutorials and printable workout tracking, you will have all the information and know how to get in the best shape ever for your next adventure. The workouts are fun, quick, and effective. Most workouts can be done in less than 15 minutes a day! We’ve even included a weight loss section for those who’d like to be a little lighter on the trail. Not that you have to necessarily lose weight to hike. By learning to train the aerobic and anaerobic system in an effective way and creating joints and muscles with appropriate mobility and strength, bagging peaks and hiking all day will become effortless.My daughters and I routinely hike 16+ miles in a day and feel great afterwards and are excited to share our Fit to Hike training protocol with you! Get 1 on 1 coachingLove it? Share it or Pin it:

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2023/02/24 English

BGM: Matthew Sweet - Smog Moon

Today I worked late. This morning I read Robert Harris's "Theory of Happiness from An Outsider" again, and thought that who I respect in this life. Robert Harris says in this book that you should be yourself even if you have to respect someone. Yes, I agree with him. Me, Once I adored Haruki Murakami, Osamu Hashimoto, Shinji Miyadai as I always write in this diary. I won't hide the fact how I have been influenced by them. My way of thoughts has been also made by a Japanese essayiest Itaru Mita, and a columnist Kouichi Yamazaki. They write about different fields in their writings, but the base of their thinking is the same I guess. Beyond the division of the left and the right, or liberal and conservative. They challenge their missions in their ways, so I respect them.

Me, As I wrote this diary a lot passionately, I walked the road with no certain maps. In that life, Haruki Murakami is the person I adored the most because he tries not to commit narrow Japanese communities of main literature, but he chases his highness seriously. I also remember that I have learned by Osamu Hashimoto because he told me "keep on thinking by your head and body". This lesson is still actual in me and it has supported my life a lot. I want to be a stray cat, but I won't hide that I have been empowered by these people who walk in front of me. I also respect my friends who enjoy and share our lives, and the members of the meeting about autism. I respect them, and go my way.

After that Robert Harris's book, I started reading Teju Cole's "Open City". I was attracted by this book from the comment that says it reminds us of Sebald's works. Certainly, reading little by little, I thought that this book should be great. Referring to various political topics, he writes the real figure of living this world as a minority bravely. Indeed, that braveness is the same as Sebald's works, or I also remembered Walter Benjamin's essays because of his lyrical style. I like Sebald and Benjamon, so I have been embarrasesd by the fact I have never learned until now. Yes, he is quite an intelligent walker (I remember a French word "Flaneur"). He walks a lot, catches various things with his eyes, and thinks so deeply. I have this book's English version as a paperback so want to try reading it after the Japanese version.

I have worked this day without any accident. At break time, I enjoyed Lou Reed and Nick Cave to keep my mind neutral. What is work? Once, it was a way to feed myself completely, therefore I did my tasks without any heart. Indeed, even now I work for "feeding myself". But I also feel that the work has been training myself well. If I could stay in my home without any working every day until I die, I would become insane. Ah, Once I thought that "why do I work?" and "what do I live for?". Now I think that it would be a waste of time to think about these questions. For example, I would pick a trash up and throw it into a dustbin. I also would work at the part no one did their work completely. That instinct which has been inputted in me controls me to move on, let me work more, and do my daily life. That's OK, isn't that? After the work, I enjoyed Rhymester's album "Heat Island" to praise my work by myself.

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#troballa #hallazago #libreta #draw #flaneurism #walk #spot #palma #marcosvidalfont https://www.instagram.com/p/CEyV1Dsjh7A/?igshid=1f04bg94873pd

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rebecca solnit, “paris, or botanizing on the asphalt,” in wanderlust: a history of walking

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more mapping examples to inform our plans for primary research

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Proyectos inéditos

Marcos Vidal Font en Espai sant marc muestra la obra que presentara en su proxima exposición a la sala del ayuntamiento de Marratxi,  Ca ses Moges de de Portol

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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

is an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting". It has links to the Situationist International and was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." or "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape." Flâneur – is someone who wanders around the city with the purpose of experiencing it.  [that’s pretty much me] Mental Map – is a person's point-of-view perception of their area of interaction. […]

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#venice #venezia #italy #italia #poster #plaque #pentimento #brick #wall #street #flaneur #map #abstract #accidental #art #streetart https://www.instagram.com/p/CCEWzLeHNkg/?igshid=1d6iyyoer6pfz

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MAP OF ATHENS, GREECE

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A month and a half before I set off for the Appalachian Trail! I'm going to be selling a bunch of things to get all the gear and money I need for the trip. I'm so happy about these Marcher Pins from @nonstoppins ! It was my first time making pins and they were so cool and patient with all my questions and helping me figure it all out. The pins themselves came out absolutely perfect! I seriously cant say enough good things about Nonstoppins, so friendly, professional, and such quality. I'm selling these for 15 dollars and you can get one on my website here. I'm also selling these pieces from my Barcelona walking project. These are my character done on the actual maps I used on my walking project where I walked the entire length of every street in Barcelona. As far as I know I am the only person to have done this, and these maps are the only relics from this walk. These maps went with me on the entire walk and contain the walk in the wear and residue accumulated on them from the walk. The lines you see are the path I walked. I drew a line, making sure it eventually covered the entire length of every street, and then I walked it, following the line. Each piece is a part of the entire map of Barcelona. It comes framed and is 5×7 inches. There were about 30 pieces in total, 15 have sold so there are about 15 left. I cant thank you all enough for the support! I still have a bunch of gear to by and need more money for the trail so you support is greatly appreciated! #marcherarrant #psychogeography #flaneur #derive #walkingart #walkingartist #nonstoppins

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AT DC MOORE, ALEXI WORTH CAPTURES MASCULINITY’S INEVITABLE LOSS OF CONTROL

THE DAILY PIC: Last week’s series of Pics about male aggression, and the harm it does (to innocent birds, among others), brought this image newly to mind: Alexi Worth’s “Changing Table 1,” a new painting I saw a little while back in his solo show at DC Moore in New York.

It suddenly read to me as an image of the innately “penile” nature of every child born male, and of a loss of control that haunts us from the moment we begin life. And note the shock that seems to register in the hands of the (female) adult in attendance.

Worth describes his peculiar acrylic-on-mesh technique as derived from the 19th-century “psychophotogram,” supposedly invented by Ernestine Lefevre Tournachon, wife of Nadar, the French photographer and flaneur. This (fictional) technique, Worth writes, involves “exposing imaginary objects to direct sunlight.” I read this as a claim for the indexical nature of Worth’s depictions—for the way they map directly, ineluctably, on a true psychic state of affairs.

For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

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10 & 12 & 15 (😊🤔🍙🍣🐦)

Thank you for the questions!

10. what’s something you’re excited for?

Right now, i'm mostly excited for the spring to finally Happen (and hopefully also sweep away the pandemic). I moved to a new place recently, it's fun area, but I haven't really had a chance to do much exploring yet – I've done a bit, but I could really do with more daylight and energy. I'm hoping to get some more flaneuring done with all the more social activities on hold, and also more reading and some arts&crafts, so I guess I'm pretty excited about that too.

12. how are you?

Pretty good, really? Social distancing for me is turning into a combination of field work and home office, which i'm more than fine with. There are worse things to do in the current situation than wander the countryside with a map and a camera, and it's probably saving my sanity in lots of ways – at least i'm tired enough from the cold that staying home for several days sounds awesome right now. Annd it means i get to sleep more, that's pretty great

15. for every emoji you get, tag someone and describe them in one word.

ohh this is hard i'll try

🤔 @sinceremercy – determined😊 @aflamethatneverdies – kind🍙 @citoyenneangele – enthusiastic🍣 @coelenterata – fantastical🐦 @everyonewasabird  – engaging

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Lullabies for the Melancholic

A review of Alexandra Streliski’s Inscape

- Secret City Records, 2018

- Colored vinyl

In purple and white pastels, an astronaut (deep sea diver?), floats in a white space. His helmet reflects the peaks of a strange gray terrain (replicated in expansive artistic detail on a foldout map tucked in the sleeve) and the feeling is a paradoxical synthesis of calm, melancholy and alienation. That triplicated feeling is the mood of Alexandra Streliski’s Inscape.

If you’ve ever asked yourself what Satie’s Gnossiennes would sound like in a dream, being played on a piano recently salvaged from the bottom of the sea, Inscape provides something of a hint. The prepared piano featured in every track on Inscape has an ethereal bass-heavy thrum. Cutting it in anything other than 45 rpms would have been an epic misstep and thankfully the brass at Secret City Records did just that.

A followup to Streliski’s 2010 Pianoscope, an equally lush album, Inscape received universal accolades when it appeared, especially in the composer’s native Quebec. For a time, it was number 1 on Apple Music’s classical channel.

Neoclassical is a term tossed at similar music, but the term is as overused as it is non-descriptive, somehow including both Ludovico Einaudi and Igor Stravinsky. But Inscape does share the delicacy and wistfulness of post-minimalists such as Joep Beving and Lambert, even if her occasionally jaunty sadness is more similar to Yann Tiersen, yet without the latter’s twee circus emotionalism. Instead of a ready-made cinematic background, however, Streliski opts for more classically challenging fare. She’s a melodist but not a melody-maker. Her music never sounds fussy or overly sentimental for its own sake.

On being bittersweet could be a fitting subtitle for Inscape. Amid the almost waltzy time signatures there’s a relentless, restless melancholy throughout Inscape’s 11 pieces (taken together they could easily belong to one extended suite). A yearning, daydreamy meander through impressions and moods rather than a search for some contented destination or resolution underlies Streliski’s musical idiom. At times it sounds like a Debussy soundtrack for any indie film starring Michelle Williams.

“The Quiet Voice”, the first track on the album, is a dulcet tune you half expect to be interrupted by a dampened guitar and elegiac vocals. Here and elsewhere, listening to Streliski’s compositions have the quality of a what a Montreal flaneur might experience strolling past a midnight fairgrounds, where a sad, lone performer sits reminiscing on her piano stool, or the music emanating from a deleted scene in Shoot the Piano Player, when the boulevards are quiet and the eponymous musician has the place to himself.

“Changing Winds” features some very Philip Glass-like broken chords, maintaining a strict reign on development with subtle key shifts. Another piece on Inscape, the ravenous “Burnout Fugue”, is the closest thing to rambunctious the album produces. There is more Cesar Franck counterpoint here than J.S. Bach, and it’s a standout composition, a necessary storm amid the calm that is the rest of the album.

Every work on Inscape seems tailored to echo off at any moment into its own silence. Parallels can be made between Streliski and alt-classical composers, but her music is far more precocious, adventurous and downright charming. The white vinyl (“to be played and filmed under bright light”, says the label, thus setting in motion a kaleidoscopic moving picture—an instruction that seems lifted from the heading of something by Satie) is definitely a perk.

Inscape  is just that: an inward-gazing journey through a set of melancholies, wrapped in dancing reveries and eloquent harmonies.

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#withoutwhich #labradorparkmrt #kyoto #japan #roadtrip #memory #life #journey #traveljournal #dejavu #wakingdream #flaneur #sleepwalking #solitude #wanderlust #cityscape #80likes #90likes #100likes #instadaily #picoftheday #instadaily #instafollow #like4like #map (at Kyoto Imperial Palace)

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Best Winery sites

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Garden Creek

Garedn Creek site is a champion not for the great symbolism and textual styles (both delightful), yet for the idea driving the copywriting. The site is altogether told in the voice of the winemakers, as a meeting style account. It’s a much needed refresher that promptly makes you have an inclination that you’ve known Karin and Justin (the winemakers) for quite a while.

Hannes Reeh

The site for Austrian winery Hannes Reeh is on the main edge of web architecture patterns: enormous, intense textual styles, solid sprinkles of shading and unbalanced structure. It’s a great site that is a gem all through.

Zena Crown

The Zena Crown site is featured gratitude to their extremely solid utilization of shading evaluating and channels. The majority of the pictures have been gone through a marginally grainy, defused channel, which makes peculiarity over the site. The shading decision is amazing too. The site demonstrates that you don’t must have a huge amount of exceptionally cleaned photography—if photography decision is restricted, making solidarity with channels and moderation get the point crosswise over fine and dandy.

Flaneur Wines

The site for Oregon’s Flâneur wines is first rate all through: Video sprinkle screen, intelligent vineyard maps, excellent photography and instinctive route.