The Tortoise and the Hare
SOME exercisers are tortoises. They prefer to take their sweet time, leisurely pedaling or ambling along on a treadmill. Others are hares, impatiently racing through kilometers at high intensity.
Each approach offers similar health benefits: lower risk of heart and stroke disease, protection against Type 2 diabetes, and weight loss.
New findings suggest that for at least one workout a week it pays to be both tortoise and hare — alternating short bursts of high-intensity exercise with easy-does-it recovery. (Mayo Clinic, 2009)
Cross Training 101
You may consider yourself to be in better than average shape (after all you are a Mountain Trek Veteran). Now at home as part of your integration plan you’ve been hiking 3 times a week in close by local parks. Some friends come into town for the holidays and you decide to go biking. No problem, you're in great shape, right? Wrong. After a day on the bike you feel like you've been run over by Santa's sleigh and all his reindeer. What's going on?
The Royal Wave
With all the fanfare of recent days with the Queen of England’s visit to Canada, I watched with interest as she greeted the Canada Day crowds with her Queen’s wave; elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist….which made me giggle as “the wave” here at Mountain Trek in beautiful British Columbia has quite the different movement!
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From The Blog
At Mountain Trek, it's a pleasure to hear back from our guests. Keith was with us this spring and has penned his personal experience the two weeks he hiked, exercised hard, detoxed, learned, and enjoyed the camaraderie his fellow trekkers.
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Testimonial:
I want to thank you for a truly enjoyable time. I first wanted to have a good time and you made this venture exceed all my expectations. Second I wanted to see beauty and you have done that in not only the out of doors but inside too. Last, I wanted to get started again and everyone helped me do that. I am very fortunate in so many ways and you have added to that good fortune. Finally, keep up the camaraderie, friendship, and community and keep communing.
Bruce
