Hiking is one of the best activities that a person can engage in. Gretchen Schorr recognizes three major benefits in hiking: exercise, stress relief, and the ability to enjoy nature. Many people don’t exercise as much as they mean to, and most that do have to worry about finding time in their schedule to drive to a busy gym. Hiking is a fantastic form of exercise. Think about walking on a treadmill at an incline; now imagine doing that for an hour. Then imagine for that entire hour you’ve been carrying a 15 pound backpack. Gretchen Schorr gets her exercise out on the trail and would recommend it as the best way for anyone to get a workout. It doesn’t even take a long hike or a huge pack for you to get a good workout. Everyone knows that exercise is one of the top recommendations to reduce stress. So, while Gretchen Schorr is getting her workout, she also gets to be out in nature. While not everyone is relaxed by being out in nature, the lack of distraction in the outdoors is fantastic for distressing. Sometimes relaxing is not about being in a place that relaxes you, but about being in a place away from your stress. Gretchen Schorr spends a good bit of her week attached to phones and laptops, being able to step away from those things and enjoy their absence is always a nice getaway for her. While being out in nature is good to get away from technology and stress, it’s also biologically good for you. Now not everyone is meant to spend their day sitting under a tree somewhere, allergies and insects have a tendency to be involved for some people and that’s completely understandable. However, Vitamin D is vital to our bodies, it is proven to help improve mood, and the natural Vitamin D the body get from sun exposure is much better than the artificial dose you get in a multi-vitamin. Hiking has some smaller benefits to your life if you make it a habitual thing. For example, odds are that you notice you become more organized. Gretchen Schorr mentioned how she began packing the same bag for day hikes every weekend, before long everything had its space in the bag, and she really did well with eliminating things from her pack for those days. Hiking does have a tendency to take a great deal of organization.
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