Get in Shape for Your Dream Trek and Join the Community

The weekly 90-minute sessions start out 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" where 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 treks.  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 anytime during the session, if an exercise is taught that you do not feel comfortable doing or you know that you should not do, than Sheri will help you find an exercise that suits your comfort level or your needs, or you can opt to rest as well. 

Wednesday mornings will find us rotating parks. After stick rolling and some dynamic stretches for a proper injury prevention warm-up, we will start our 90-minute hike in the park of the week. These mornings will be more about improving our muscular endurance through walking more miles than we do on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s. At the end of our session we will cool down via static stretching and stick rolling.

Theses hikes will be about 3-hours in length on various trails near Seattle. Most trails we go to will be off of the I-90 corridor.  Sometimes these hikes do go over the 3-hour time frame, all depends on the group and the condition of the trail. When there is too much snow or ice on the trails we stay closer to home and do our training hikes at local parks such as Saint Edwards State Park, Discovery Park or Carkeek Park- all great for longer hikes.