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How much weight/distance for backpack training?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 1674984" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Right on! I think people get too caught up with ideal body weight, conditioning and joint strength has a heck of a lot more to do with one's endurance and work capacity than body fat percentage or even age. I know no shortage of young, thin, conventionally athletic people who run out of gas very quickly. </p><p></p><p>I remember being humbled a lot a about 6 years ago by my dad, who has since retired. He's a farmer, and of the opposite build you mention, about 5'8 and somewhere around 150 pounds, wiry. He was in his early sixties at the time of the humbling incident, and my friend and i were 20 and 21 respectively. We're both taller and stouter by 50 pounds than he is, not especially overweight, can certainly deadlift more weight in a one-time maximum effort kind of test. But he got us to help him shovel grain bins out all morning, and I think he single handedly moved as much grain as the two of us combined and wasn't gasping for air half as bad as either of us. It was a glorious moment for him and kind of embarrassing for us, in a good way. Conditioning. He's always made it his practice in life to things manually if time permits, even if he could use a machine. He's done a ton of shoveling, walked hundreds of miles of fence line every summer for decades, carried countless 5 gallon water buckets across the farmyard, and just plain refused to engage in a sedentary lifestyle and it really shows. He's 70 now and is slowing down a fair bit, happy to be retired, but when he needs to he can still go just as hard as before, but he confesses he pays for it in the following days much more miserably than used to be.</p><p></p><p>My big nemesis when out all day is heat and dehydration. I'm glad I live in a place that's rather cold for half the year because for whatever reason I absolutely cannot handle getting overheated, I have no threshold for that whatsoever and I don't know if a person can train to overcome that or not. I can go hard all day no trouble IF i remember to drink enough, eat enough (hypoglycemic, can really ruin your day) and find a way to cool down. As soon as I get past a certain temperature point I just shut down completely, body and mind, limbs feel like they weigh 100 pounds each and I just can't think straight anymore, get confused and disoriented, easily agitated (the expression "hot headed" to describe someone quick to anger is apt, I'm usually very even tempered but when I get hot I turn into a bit of a raging lunatic)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 1674984, member: 109862"] Right on! I think people get too caught up with ideal body weight, conditioning and joint strength has a heck of a lot more to do with one's endurance and work capacity than body fat percentage or even age. I know no shortage of young, thin, conventionally athletic people who run out of gas very quickly. I remember being humbled a lot a about 6 years ago by my dad, who has since retired. He's a farmer, and of the opposite build you mention, about 5'8 and somewhere around 150 pounds, wiry. He was in his early sixties at the time of the humbling incident, and my friend and i were 20 and 21 respectively. We're both taller and stouter by 50 pounds than he is, not especially overweight, can certainly deadlift more weight in a one-time maximum effort kind of test. But he got us to help him shovel grain bins out all morning, and I think he single handedly moved as much grain as the two of us combined and wasn't gasping for air half as bad as either of us. It was a glorious moment for him and kind of embarrassing for us, in a good way. Conditioning. He's always made it his practice in life to things manually if time permits, even if he could use a machine. He's done a ton of shoveling, walked hundreds of miles of fence line every summer for decades, carried countless 5 gallon water buckets across the farmyard, and just plain refused to engage in a sedentary lifestyle and it really shows. He's 70 now and is slowing down a fair bit, happy to be retired, but when he needs to he can still go just as hard as before, but he confesses he pays for it in the following days much more miserably than used to be. My big nemesis when out all day is heat and dehydration. I'm glad I live in a place that's rather cold for half the year because for whatever reason I absolutely cannot handle getting overheated, I have no threshold for that whatsoever and I don't know if a person can train to overcome that or not. I can go hard all day no trouble IF i remember to drink enough, eat enough (hypoglycemic, can really ruin your day) and find a way to cool down. As soon as I get past a certain temperature point I just shut down completely, body and mind, limbs feel like they weigh 100 pounds each and I just can't think straight anymore, get confused and disoriented, easily agitated (the expression "hot headed" to describe someone quick to anger is apt, I'm usually very even tempered but when I get hot I turn into a bit of a raging lunatic) [/QUOTE]
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