Improve Your Cardio Without Running With These 3 Workouts
Your big adventures are right around the corner. Is your cardiovascular strength up to snuff?
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Tired of Exercising For Hours? Try These Quick Cardio Workouts
Stop picking between your fitness and your free time. These aerobic conditioning workouts are just as effective and take less than an hour.
Feeling Sore After a Long Hike? Time to Hit the Gym.
Feeling achy and serotonin-depleted after a couple months on the trail? This gym workout will help you out.
Get Stronger and Faster With Loaded Pack Training
You don't have to spend hours and hours on the trail to get prepared for your next big hike. It's more efficient to train with a loaded pack.
Skip the Weight Machines and Do These Exercises To Hike Stronger
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Numb Feet While Hiking? Here’s How To Fix It
If your feet ever become numb while hiking, don't worry. This common hiking ailment has a few potential causes and easy fixes.
What Are “Trail Legs” and How Do I Get Them?
Hiking big miles every day can make your legs tired and crispy. Not if you've prepared. Here's how to develop invincible trail legs.
How To Save Your Hiking Career After A Joint Replacement
No, you don't have to hang up your pack for good. Recovery is possible, but here's what you have to prioritize before hitting the trails.
Get Your Butt In Shape to Power Through Trail Miles
Squats and step-ups aren't targeting your entire gluteus. These three exercises are your key to complete glute strength.
This Hiking Workout is a Spring Tune-Up for Your Body
Fend off aches and pains with these hiker-specific exercises.
This Is Why Your Feet Hurt on the Trail—and How to Fix It
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Get Knees and Ankles of Steel with These 3 Calf Exercises
Training the calves can reap huge benefits for knee and ankle health. These three calf exercises will help keep your lower body injury-free.
This Fitness Test Can Tell You How Strong of a Hiker You Are—and How to Get Fitter
Gauge your cardiovascular fitness to hone in on your training goals.
This Tempo Workout Is the Secret to Staying Trail Fit in the Offseason
This tempo workout strengthens your tendons and ligaments while creating long-lasting muscle endurance for injury-free hiking in season.
Yes, Hikers Need Strong Upper Bodies. These Exercises Can Help
Hikers are all about leg strength, but don’t forget about training your arms and shoulders in order to avoid aches on the trail.
How to Rehab Your Body and Mind After a Thru-Hike
Ending a long trek takes its toll on your mental and physical health. Here's how to ease back into your home routine.
Shin Splints Can Derail Your Hike. Here’s How to Prevent Them.
Learn to identify, treat, and avoid shin splints for happier hiking.
The Ultimate Stair Workout for Crushing Climbs
Prep your trail legs with this hiking-specific training plan.
Injured? Stay Fit for the Trail With These Exercises.
Deliberate exercise can help you recover from an injury faster and come back stronger than ever once you’re healed.
Knock Out Knee Pain With These 3 Exercises
Prep your joints for long miles and big descents with these injury-prevention workouts.
Hike Pain-Free With These 5 Simple Hip Exercises
Your hips keep you hiking. Treat them right with this workout.
6 Hiking Exercises for When You’re Too Busy to Work Out
Finding time to train is hard. Get trail-ready while you go about your day with these do-anywhere exercises.
Fight Off Early-Season Soreness With This Foot-and-Leg Self-Care Routine
Hiking muscles feeling rusty? Give them the love they deserve.