Aerobic Exercise

The Ideal Preparation for my Hiking Trip

My buddy and I are preparing to go on a hiking trip to Glacier National Park. Our plans are to do some camping along with staying at various small hotels and inns.  I have been involved with aerobic exercise in one way or another my whole life, either by walking or biking.  When I told my wife the plans to go on a hiking trip with my friend she laughed.  She does not feel either one of us will last two days.  When I shared this with my buddy, who is in shape, but does not consistently do any aerobic exercise; he took this as a challenge.

He started looking into the best aerobic exercise to prepare for our trip.  I tried calling him during our lunch breaks, but could never find him at his desk because he was out walking.  Two evenings a week he went to aerobic exercise classes.  I went over to his apartment and found three DVD’s on various aerobic exercise programs.  The man has become obsessed.  We discussed that when we first planned the trip we were going to hike for short distances each day to take in the beautiful surroundings, now he was looking at this as an aerobic exercise challenge!  He told me that I better start pushing myself more to build up my strength so that I would be able to keep up with him.
 
I went home and told my wife that I feared our relaxing; get in touch with nature trip is going to turn into a triathlon.  She thinks this situation is quite humorous.  At least my buddy is improving his health with the aerobic exercise, but I was really not planning on having to run up a hiking path.  I purchased an aerobic exercise tape for my walkman and started pushing myself more.  The first few walks I worked harder trying to deal with my frustrations towards my buddy and wife, but as my strength improved and my lung capacity developed I found I was enjoying this higher level of aerobic exercise.  When I went shopping for clothes for the trip I found that I had dropped a pant size.  My clothes at home were fitting looser also.  I told my wife that this was my revenge for her challenge, a whole new wardrobe.  She doesn't mind because she thinks I look great.

As the date of our trip approaches we are getting more and more excited about going on our adventure.  Both of us look and feel better since we increased our aerobic exercise.  If you hear about two men racing around the hiking trials in Glacier National Park, I am one of them.