Physical mobility and hiking

There are very simple parameters to check in order to know if your physical capacity corresponds to an easy, medium-demanding or highly difficult trail: Your mobility. This concept is relatively new, but the details and variables it involves are natural abilities necessary to develop in our species.

Physical mobility is your body’s ability to achieve the natural and intrinsic movement of your anatomy. Such mobility, if cultivated, can give you physical abilities that will be with you throughout your life, which will increase for decades. Therefore, it will also be very useful in your daily life, not to mention for activities like hiking.

Walking, bending, twisting your torso, standing on one foot, getting up from the floor without hands, squatting without support, etc., are simple and natural activities of your body that you should be able to do throughout your life. Do you remember you could make them when you were a child? You can still do it, just try again and again.

Is physical mobility something natural?

Our species has evolved to live in nature, but our “city” life has robbed us of these skills and with them, years of our future old age.

Practicing mobility, in addition to activating yourself and improving your range of motion, strengthens your ligaments, improves your elasticity, corrects your posture. Thus, it prevents the simplest injuries that, in the long run, “cause” aging. The latter is key, because when we reach the point of feeling discomfort, pain or injuries in simple movements, we accept that we are old and that we should naturally avoid moving. This leads to physical old age, to a deadly sedentary lifestyle more quickly.

Walk, walk a lot. Put on and tie one shoe while balanced on that foot with the other in the air. Stand up from the floor without using your hands. Walk an imaginary tightrope without losing your balance. Put your feet up on a bench while sitting on it and jump up whenever you can.

These and many simple activities can improve your mobility. Once on the trail, you will feel more comfortable, stronger, more stable on the ups and downs. You will feel safer when passing over or under a fallen tree or jumping a slope down the road. You will go further and less tired. Without injuries.

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On the Internet, you can find a lot of information and videos on how to practice these simple movements and what goals you should visualize. Whether you go on the trail or not, it is proven that by achieving these goals you are increasing quality of life and decades to your life expectancy.

After this, we will not only be able to find ourselves on the path, but we will be able to travel it at a good pace. Also, we will do so with an air of internal and external strength that will take us to better and more surprising trails.