Clinic
Conditioning for Hiking and Backpacking Level II - Guided Workout - Woodland Park
This evening workout session in a local park with personal trainer Sheri Goodwin builds on Conditioning for Hiking and Backpacking Level I, further strengthening major muscles used during hiking and backpacking. Each session will help you increase your mobility, stability, and strength needed to hike and backpack with ease while helping to prevent injuries. Experienced hikers can attend Level II without Level I though they are helpful together. Four workout dates will be offered, and we encourage people to do at least two of them to really gain confidence with the principles and exercises! This is a bargain for two hours with a personal trainer!
Contacts
- Wed, May 15, 2024
- Foothills Backpacking Committee
- Backpacking, Day Hiking
- Adults
- Easy
- Easy
- $35.00 $45.00
- 7 (16 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Level II Conditioning for Hiking and Backpacking will teach you how to incorporate the
exercises and workouts learned in Level I while out walking in a local park.
One of the best ways to train for a hiking adventure is on trails in the great outdoors! This way your feet, ankles, knees and hips will gain stability and strength on the uneven surfaces that you will face on the trails. You won't even realize you are working out when you incorporate trek specific strength training as we make our way through the park. These outdoor sessions will help you feel amazing on your next day hike, or backpacking adventure! And when you are well prepared, you will help reduce the possibility of an over-use injury that could bring your hike or backpacking adventure to a quick end.
- Breakdown of each 2-hour session:
We'll start with a hiking specific warm-up that includes stick rolling, a 5-10-minute walk, simple glute strengthening exercises, and dynamic stretches. - We then begin the workout in which we intermix hiking with exercises that specifically train the muscles you will utilize on the trail and will help to improve your mobility, stability, and
strength. Another part of our workout includes interval hill training to help increase your
cardiovascular endurance for those long climbs on your hikes. This portion is done at your own
pace as everyone walks at different speeds.
The session ends with a cool down that includes a relaxed 5–10-minute walk back to where we
started and static stretches to help improve flexibility and help prevent injuries.
Rest assured that at any time during the session, if an exercise is taught that you do not feel
comfortable doing or you know that you should not do, then Sheri will help you find an exercise that suits your comfort level or your needs, or you can opt to rest as well.
It is recommended, though not required, that you complete Sheri's Conditioning for Hiking and Backpacking Level I clinic before this session.
The workout session will go from 6:30 to 8:30PM at Lower Woodland Park, 5900 W Green Lake Way N Seattle, WA 98103 – (this is the address to the Lower Woodland Park Playfields, which are just across the street from Green Lake and its mini golf course).
Directions upon arrival: Turn into the parking lot that the above address takes you to, and
take the immediate right that takes you up hill. You will pass tennis courts on your left and
then a dog park on your left. Keep going to the top of the hill, turn left and park in this lot. I
will be under one of the two shelters (#4 or #7), basically whichever one is not in use at the
time. Both are relatively close together and you will be able to see both from where you park.
If you get confused, call Sheri at Cell: 206-465-1795.
Required Equipment
What you will need for these sessions:
- Hiking Poles – during the session, Sheri will teach you how to properly use your hiking
poles to help you become a more efficient hiker. - A massage myofascial rolling stick or your hiking poles should suffice.
- Small Looped Workout bands: Perform better bands or Tribe’s Wider looped bands,
(If you don’t have one of these, you can borrow one at the session, but please bring one if
you have one) - Long Workout bands: TheraBand (It would be best if you can bring one of these bands.
Sheri won’t have enough for everyone, but if you don’t have one it will be okay.) - Proper hiking clothing for the day’s weather plus layers for the evening workout
- Trail running shoes are best for these workouts, if you don’t have them, then low hiking
boots will be okay. - Daypack for: water, snacks, electrolytes, layers, flashlight/headlamp, and mini first-aid kit.