Fitness Special—Hike Forever: Age 50-65

I too am in better shape from hiking than I was at 30. Great article to encourage both genders to either keep going or start getting out there.

I find that on MSN, Sympatico and Yahoo almost almost 100% of the health articles are geared towards women. It's nice to see a good article for men.
Thank you so much.

I find that on MSN, Sympatico and Yahoo almost all the health articles are geared towards women. It's nice to see a good article for men.
Thank you so much.

At 61 I plan on doing lots more hiking, biking and backpacking. But as a woman I guess I will just have to make up my own fitness plan since you neglected to include us!

Great advice for men. How about a similar article focusing on women? We ARE different, you know.

Most of the perceived exertion scales go 1-10; can you put it in terms of 1-10, or explain your scale range?

As a 57 year old women that hikes regularly and just did a four day BP trip in the John Muir Wilderness, I say: this article is completely guy-centric. Are you suggesting mature women don't want a good outdoor fitness experience?

As a 57 year old women that hikes regularly and just did a four day BP trip in the John Muir Wilderness, I say: this article is completely guy-centric. Are you suggesting mature women don't want a good outdoor fitness experience?

Re print page. I had to go to Print page in my browser and reduce the scale to 50% to get the whole page.

I am 63 and have exercised my whole life. These are great suggestions as myself and a buddy climb a local hill in Phoenix, AZ 3-times per week and run up the last quarter of the hill. Great cardio!
We hike rim to rim in the GC every year.

Do what the article says, I am 67 and did 7 miles on snowshoes yesterday with a 25 pound pack. I regularly do 7 to 10 mile day hikes with pack at 8000 to 9000 feet in the summer. I'm able to do this because I have been following a similar program for a long time.

So you say to do endurance hiking twice weekly for 45 minutes. What is endurance hiking, would love to partake

Through regular weight training and hiking I can honestly say I'm in better shape now, at age 57, than I was when I started backpacking at 15. For example, I did a 17-mile day hike on the local trails a month ago. Couldn't have come close to that 42 years ago.

Yes, if you are going to "show" a Print the Page, make sure your program will print the page. It doesn't.

Great article! At 55 I can already relate to every item covered in the article. Maybe this will give me the encouragement I need to take corrective action before any more damage is done.

Thanks and keep up the good work. Great magazine.!