Hiking Tips

Hiker on Rainforest Trail

Hiking Tips 

No matter how well you have trained indoors. It would never match the real trail up to mountain. Never ever expect that you have trained enough to scale Gunung Kinabalu,   Gunung Tahan or Titiwangsa ranges just by running over treadmills. Simulate your training as close as the real challenge as possible. Ideally set up several pre small expeditions before the big one as that would condition your body and specific muscle better to suit what in need. Running around Lake Garden would never be the same with hiking up Gunung Tahan with 15kg on your back, count into consideration extreme temperature, mud, wet, wind, 70% degree slope what else? Learn to tackle them like a pro these ways with these hiking tips:

Hiking tips #1 - Look ahead – watch your posture, specifically 3 meters in front of you. This will ensure that your upper and lower body stays aligned. Bend your upper body too much at the waist will move your centre of gravity so that you leg will fight extra weight as you climb.

Hiking tips #2 – Use short steps – increase the pace if you want to go faster.
Shorten your steps or you will tire out faster as longer steps use more muscle.

Hiking tips #3 – Start slow - your physical exercise teacher sure have teach you right, warm up good for you! Start slow would prepare you body better to the next level; going full throttle may cause you to run out of gas sooner and it’s not easy to recover. Thus, keep your pace consistent.

Hiking tips #4 - Pack your bag properly
Ensure that your things and rations were packed properly inside your haversack. Pack it compact as possible, do not let anything loose as moving object in your haversack, worst - do not let anything hanging on your haversack  because this will affect your stability and without realize you has used more energy and you could end up tired prematurely.  Pack heavy things at bottom of your haversack to make it close with your centre of gravity as possible. String your things such as parang, camera, water bottle to your waist's belt is better than hanging on your backpack or your chest.

Hiking tips #5 - Relax, be cool, go slow mannnn...
Dont simply jump down from higher place into muddy path especially when you are descending, at montane forest trail its soil could be like muddy peat swamp, you could trap your feet through rotten root and hurt your ankle. The trail could be dry but the root, rock, slab could be slippery. Don't run don't get over excited.. you are inside high risk area  .. so safety first

Hiking tips#6 - Dont push too hard
Watch your breathing,  heart beat, dizzyness, any of your body sympton. Dehydration could cause dizzyness, instability, faint, increase body temperature, shock then death! straineous physical activity could cause asthma attack, don't let your heart beat like it to explode, over stress heart muscle could release harmful hormone and trigger heart attack... take rest  for a while then continue when you are ready

These 6 hiking tips will not make you experienced hiker overnight...   go and hit the trail, with experience you gain along the trail who know you will be the one to give your own hiking tips.


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