Hiking Benefits – Improves Your Mind, Heart and Body

stgvr • December 24, 2014

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Hiking is best kind of exercise that offers plenty of benefits along with fresh air, nice scenic views, beautiful landscaping and fresh smells of nature. So many people come to stay in St George to go hiking, and here are more reasons why. Hiking improves your mind, heart and body. It’s a powerful cardio workout and helps you control your sugar levels, and lowers the risk of heart disease.

Below you can find few more benefits of hiking.

1.           Weight Loss: Hiking helps you lose weight. Obesity is a serious problem that the world is facing now. According to studies 30 percent of adults are obese and over 64 percent are overweight.  This is because of a busy lifestyle where people are not able to find time to exercise and also bad eating habits are the main reasons. As well gadgets are to be blame as kids are more interested in sitting on the couch and playing games instead of playing outside.  When you do outdoor sports like hiking with the kids, it not only helps them lose weight but also helps you to bond with them.

2.           Prevent Heart Disease: According to the reports, every day around 2500 Americans die with heart diseases.  But, you can reduce the risk if you are able to walk every single day. Many studies proved that regular exercises and brisk walking can help you prevent heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases.  So in a way, hiking can keep you fit and at the same time you can have fun with your family.

3.           Reduce Cholesterol:  Hiking can help you increase good cholesterol level and reduces bad cholesterol levels.  When your cholesterol levels are normal, that means less chance of getting heart problems.

4.           Lower Blood Pressure – Hiking can also help you lower your blood pressure. Doctors recommend that a short 30 minutes hike on regular basis can help you in many ways.

5.           Decreases Stress and Depression:   when you are hiking your body releases chemicals like adrenaline and endorphins which gives you the positive and natural effect on your stress-levels and helps you deal with your depression.

6.           Keep you Strong: Hiking keeps you strong. When you are getting older you need more physical strength. When you take part in day hiking trips once in a while your muscles gets stronger.

7.           Prevent Osteoporosis: regular hiking can help you increase your bone density and bone strength, it increases calcium levels and strengthens your bones and safeguards against bone diseases.

8.           Fresh Air:  when you go uphill you will get fresh air, cool breeze and breathe taking surroundings.  If you are living in cities, you will miss all these elegant things. So, once in a while you take a small day hiking trip to enjoy these small little

9.           Prevent Diabetes: Hiking can increase insulin in a Type I diabetic patients.   It helps to control sugar levels in Type II diabetic patients.

10.         Progress Arthritis: A good exercise to prevent arthritis, hiking can benefit you to diagnose the arthritis in starting stage and helps you get early treatment. It strengthens the muscles and enhances support.

11.         Experience Nature: Hiking gives you a chance to explore the Mother Nature. When you are hiking you will forget the world, you will just contemplate on the surrounding and the trail. It gives you a moment to forget about your busy life.

12.         Self Confidence: Hiking can help you gain your self confidence. When you complete the trail successfully, it gives you the satisfaction, you feel that you achieved you goal and make you feel better and energetic to take up another challenge.

Conclusion:  Hiking can benefit you in many ways.  Hiking is not only gives you total blast but also offers you several health benefits. Hiking is one of the premier reasons people come to stay in St George , as there is some of the best hiking in the world here. You get more from hiking, as it gives you fitness boosting strategies.  Start slowly, for beginners a short local hike is recommended. Gradually you can start trails with uneven terrain or hills.

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