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Your upper body, however loses fitness. I was climbing regularly in 2009 before I thru-hiked in 2010 and was a pretty solid 5.10 climber making inroads into 5.1
by mauvehaus 6y ago
Your upper body, however loses fitness. I was climbing regularly in 2009 before I thru-hiked in 2010 and was a pretty solid 5.10 climber making inroads into 5.11 at the Red River Gorge (translation: nothing special, but usually able to find something I could get on at most crags there).
Getting back into climbing was pretty brutal, to put it mildly.
Also, if we're being totally honest, the diet of the average thru-hiker is pretty abhorrent. Lots of tunamac or equivalently unhealthy meals for dinner. Thru-hiking might get you fit, but I wouldn't recommend it to anybody as a way to get healthy.
- sn9 6y agoThe caloric needs of the physical activity probably completely counteract and then some the negatives of the diet quality. If you take before and after snapshots of bloodwork and other physical health markers, it's probably an unambiguous improvement for anyone fit enough to undertake the ordeal. For example: https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body...
- bagacrap 6y agoagreed re: diet, but nit: an unambiguous improvement for people who don't already exercise a lot