Backpacking Fitness

Want to achieve your fourth-season dreams? Lay the groundwork with these exercises.

Whether you need to carry a full load of winter gear or just an extra camp chair, train your muscles to take the weight with these three exercises.

Close a wound, remove a tick, prevent poison ivy rash, and more essential tips.

Hike farther, faster, and pain-free with these training tips and exercise.

Get those noodles ready for hoisting heavy packs, hauling your body over boulders, and poling through tough terrain.

Push through big climbs and banish quad burn by increasing your lactate threshold with these three workouts.

When you're putting your body through the strain of 5 months on the trail, you need to take care of it.

Limber up and quiet your mind with these easy poses.

Strengthen joints and banish sprains for good.

Few devour distance like Joe “Stringbean” McConaughy, who holds the overall speed record on the Appalachian Trail. Here are his tips for wringing more miles out of the day.

Build up your abs for better balance and all-day comfort on the trail.

Skip the dumbbells and the gym membership. This year, whip yourself into shape with nothing more than your backpack.

It’s not all in the legs. Strengthen your upper body to boost your balance and better control your poles and pack on rough terrain.

Leave it to the pros to have the outdoor world figured out. These tips are what turn hikers into guides—and guides into heroes.

Want to perform like a guide? Start training like one.

Start the season right with this quick daily workout, and you’ll be ready for the trail in no time.

Stay in shape with these workout tips, and advice from a fitness hero.

Fight the sedentary lifestyle and get a move on with these exercises and essential skills.

Get ready for the long fitness haul with these skills, workouts, and essential info.

Build your fitness foundation with this essential physiological info, tips on eating right and exercises for staying in prime hiking shape.

Go further, ride better, and have more fun by using science to optimize your cold-weather fueling strategy.

Start spring in better shape than ever by working on your weaknesses.

Yes, there's a better way to put one foot in front of the other. Improve your stride, trek farther, and end leg and back pain with our guide to the new science of healthy hiking.

Humans did it for thousands of years. But is barefoot walking right for you? The experts sound off.