[Philmont] Conditioning

The thing I found that helped me the most was increasing my anaerobic
threshold. This is the rate where your body can not transport enough oxygen
to your muscles for the exercise that it is demanding. As a result your body
uses the stored energy in your muscles, glycogen. Since the system is no
longer working off of oxygen, lactic acid is produced as a byproduct. This
is where you feel soreness and muscle burn. . I measure it by my heart
rate. Increasing the heart rate level at which change happens (anaerobic
threshold) is what helped me. I did most of it with cycling. To find out
more about anaerobic interval training, just do a search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=anaerobic+interval+training&btnG=Google+Search

If nothing else, just getting your heart and lungs used to working harder
than normal for long periods of time will help.

And if you are wanting to burn fat, this works great. Fat burns better at
aerobic levels (where your body can get enough oxygen to the muscles).
Anaerobic intervals has you spending most of your exercise time in the
aerobic stage while making burst up to anaerobic levels.

If you look at pp 10-11 on this manual, it will tell you a bit about heart
rates
http://www.vetta.com/Tech%20Support/HRSeries/HR409_eng.pdf

An estimate for your max heart rate is 220 - your age.

Happy hiking!

-- 
Jason Cotting
Retired Ranger
Lakewood, CO
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http://anvilgear.com/jason/backpacking
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