Saturday, February 1, 2014

2 Vital Safety Tips For Hikers

By Chet Sandeksi


Your body is a wondrous thing. It can be your greatest ally when you take care of it or your worst nightmare when you let things go. Maintaining a strong body is something that helps you enjoy your life. Take a look at the following 4 basics of creating a stronger body that will help you enjoy health and freedom for the years ahead.

Hikers are spending these last couple of months in the mountains, exploring new places and rediscovering sights that they love. In their haste to get outdoors, it can be easy to forget some of the most vital safety tips to ensure they have a safe return home.

The following is a quick reminder of two of the most vital safety tips for hikers. Never leave home without considering these two things.

The second basic is pretty straight forward; strengthen all of your muscles. Your muscles support your skeleton, as well as cushion the impact of daily activities.

Mankind is essentially made up of social creatures. Men and women around the world congregate into social societies.

Second, exercise releases chemicals that have been found to improve mood. Exercise has been proven to release endorphins, which create a feeling of happiness and pleasure.

For example, you may decide to run twice a week to work out the lower body. You may also decide to play racquetball once a week to focus on the core and upper body.

Now some choose to live independently still, preferring to be away from the larger social gatherings. Those people choose to live on their own, but they must take special precautions for safety that they wouldn't have to worry about as a group.

And that's the point here. There's safety in large numbers of people working together.

The third basic of building a stronger body is to know when to listen. No Pain, No Gain is the "manly" way to workout. Push yourself until you can't push anymore and then go one more. If you can't live to that standard then you're worthless.

Groups hiking together can spot those dangers, provide useful insight, or act immediately should anything bad happen. If they can't provide needed medical attention, then they can often attract the attention of those that can.

Fifth, working out can help your brain stay fit as well. Working out, especially between the ages of 25-45, boost the chemicals in the brain that support and prevent degeneration of the hippocampus , an important part of the brain responsible for memory and learning.

You need to learn to recognize when an activity is hurting your body, and when it's helping it to grow. If you feel any problems in a joint and not your muscles, for instance, then you should take a break before you wind up needing electro surgery to fix an injury your body warned you could come.

Remember the story of Aaron Ralston? He went out bouldering one day without telling anyone where he was going or when to expect him home. In an unfortunate series of events, his arm got caught between a heavy rock and a hard place. He was eventually able to get himself free and to medical attention, but not without great personal sacrifice and hardship.

He was one of the lucky ones to escape. There are plenty of hikers each year that lose their lives each year because they 1) hiked alone and/or 2) didn't tell anyone where they were going.

These are the four basics of building a stronger body. When your body is well fortified, you'll avoid injury more and seek electro surgery less-improving your general way of life.




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