Spring is a season suitable for mountaineering, but the sudden challenge of climbing the mountain may be dangerous due to a lack of experience in mountain exercise!
Therefore, you must be well prepared to enjoy the fun of climbing.
Physical Training Before Climbing: Muscle Strength. Training helps the strength of the core muscles, allows you to maintain your balance on uneven or steep slopes, and you must strengthen your legs. In order to make the leg muscles more stable, you can do squats and lunges.
Physical training before climbing: Cardio. Cardiopulmonary training is also a must-have preparation before climbing because the mountains above 3,000 meters above sea level have thin air and low temperatures, so it is necessary to enhance lung capacity and adapt to the mountains to avoid altitude sickness.
Physical training before climbing: weight bearing. If you need to climb a long-distance mountain that takes more than a day, then you must undergo weight training. Train yourself to carry more weight to reach 75% of the weight you expect to actually be climbing a mountain.
Physical Training Before Climbing: Mental Exercise. No matter how strong your physical fitness is, you still have to be mentally prepared to climb mountains.
Before climbing the mountain, you can read more mountaineering records of mountain friends, or watch mountaineering books and mountaineering documentaries, so that you can be mentally prepared to cope with the various crises of mountain climbing.
Five things you must know before climbing:
1. Climbing accidents happen not because of age, but because of lack of preparation.
2. Mountaineering is the most suitable walking exercise for all ages.
3. Calories burned for a walk in the mountains > a marathon > jogging on the flat for hours.
4. Long-term mountaineering can reduce cholesterol, arteriosclerosis index, neutral fat, and blood pressure.
5. In addition to improving physical health, mental satisfaction after reaching the summit can bring great positive effects on physical and mental health.
Item preparation:
Choose hiking shoes that fit your foot type and your itinerary. Put it on before training, most hiking shoes need a break-in period with your feet.
Although high-tube hiking shoes can provide ankle protection, if the tube circumference is too high or not suitable, it may cause ankle discomfort.
Choose a good pair of hiking socks. Hiking socks are often overlooked, but they are no less important than hiking boots.
A pair of hiking boots with unsuitable hiking socks can also ruin your hiking fun, so next time remember to test your hiking boots and hiking socks together when training before your trip.
Use trekking poles. The correct use of trekking poles will make your mountaineering experience different, it can help you reduce the wear and impact of weight on your knees, and it can also make it easier for you to climb steep slopes.
