Training for Glacier National Park, Montana

Original photo by Port of San Diego

My girlfriend and I are planning a trip to Glacier National Park in Montana.  To say it's hilly is an understatement.  In order to prepare we are training legs and starting to hike around here in SoCal.

We are doing legs outside at a local park.  It's sort of boot-camp or P90X Plyometrics style.  We started getting serious this past week on Thursday.  I've been working out, but WOW it was tough.  My legs were seriously thrashed the next day.

Then, this weekend we went hiking at the Laguna Canyon Wilderness Park.  Specifically, we did the Willow Canyon Trail.  Here is the Strava file from my Garmin Edge 500.

The plan is to do legs Plyometrics style two days a week.  Then, go hiking at least one day, if not both days of the weekend.

That way we are working on our heart and lungs as well as the ups and downs of actual hiking.

We also plan on starting to load up our camelbaks with water and some weight to make the hiking more realistic.

Happy Training!

Clayton's Plyometric workout for 4/4/13:

• 15 min warm up

25 reps of each of the following.
The single leg stuff, we did 25 reps each leg per exercise.

• Lateral squat leap - one left and one right = 1 rep
• Falling Towers - down and back = 1 rep
• Hindu Squats
• Wall sit for 1 minute
• Super Skater - one left and one right = 1 rep
• Walking lunge with a torso twist
• Step ups or hop ups on a bench
• Jump knee tuck
• Bulgarian split squat
• Mary Catherines
• Gap jumps - so the link is for the visual.  Our gap was more like 2 to 3 feet max.
• 10-15 minutes of dedicated stretching.  Trust me, you'll need it.

Have a good day and happy working out!