Nutrition and long distance walking

Nutrition travelers, especially long-distance hikers, is both fun and serious problem for the review.

We all have to go from the vision of the first U.S. food writer Earl Shaffer, the first to learn-by: "Going over, under or around the [purged] was a lengthy process, but that alone could not explain the fact that my power was fading. Sometimes it is necessary to recover the ground for several minutes or sit on a tree trunk for a moment while driving over stretch. Something was wrong .... The pressing problem was my weak growth .... About noon I heard cooking. Since the meals were completely lost due to rain, I decided a double amount of what some could be kept and eaten cold, if not available cooking fire in the night. To my surprise, "sawdust pudding all boilers be full [ fungal maize flour VGV], but disappeared if by magic, along with half a pound of brown sugar, a can of milk and some raisins. Almost immediately my legs lost all sense of lead and I felt like walking again. It was a case directly by starvation, despite no change in the sense of hunger. From that moment, my greatest strength as well as my food bill. "(Walking with Spring, p. 19).

If you consume about 2,000 calories per day in sedentary lifestyle, are likely to need at least 4,000 calories per day for a long walk. Shaffer discovered the hard way. The goal of nutrition in a long hike is the calorie intake with energy expenditure balance and not create a deficit of vitamins or minerals. These include the use of water and electrolytes, which vary with the heat and humidity. The ability to observe long-distance hikers eat when food is available and the result is known for its many miles and heavy loads legendary. Ayce (all you can eat) is short of the magic of the restaurants along the route on the books of information. Not only the economy but are Ayce physiological need pulling power and, above all, the pounds that are not transported.


What to eat for breakfast, snacks, lunch, snack and dinner? I carry about two pounds of food per day. I start the day with a broken package of Pop-Tarts and breakfast in instant coffee (I like Folger individual bags). My mid-morning snack (about 9:00) is a Snickers Gorp (heavy on the peanut M & Ms) and dried apricots with some Gatorade. Lunch is cheese and crackers (or sausage), fruit and pastries (especially chocolate chip). The secret is to package and biscuits and cookies, which break easily (I like Wheat Worth and Famous Amos) found. By mid-afternoon snack or included Kudos granola bars and Gorp. Making Gorp is fun, but do not put nuts soften to a little moisture on the honey-peanut M & Ms. are excellent. Sunflower seeds and raisins in chocolate are okay. No raisins!