{"id":40405,"date":"2015-05-05T05:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T10:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=40405"},"modified":"2015-05-06T05:28:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T10:28:13","slug":"ive-been-reading-hiking-trail-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ive-been-reading-hiking-trail-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been reading hiking trail journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hiking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40016\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hiking-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"hiking\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hiking-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hiking.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?id=482757\">hiking trail journals<\/a> and notice that many hikers begin at age 50-65 with no prior hiking or fitness experience. Most are worried they won&#8217;t be strong or fit enough to walk 10+ miles a day for weeks with a 20-40 lb backpack but notice they gain strength and endurance every day on the trip. I&#8217;m doing that at the gym, plodding ahead, one foot in front of the other, going thru the paces to get it done and find for me that&#8217;s the way to do it. I can tell I&#8217;m getting stronger when it&#8217;s easy to move furniture and pull my weight up into the tree.\u00a0\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t begin working out in the gym until I was over 50. I&#8217;ve done daily yoga since age 18 but only in 2005 did I start doing weights and getting aerobic. 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Most are worried they won&#8217;t be strong or fit enough to walk 10+ miles a day for weeks with a 20-40 lb backpack but notice they gain strength and endurance every day on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40406,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40405\/revisions\/40406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}