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The Great Outdoors

SKILLS: Move faster in the mountains

Moving above clouds on Carn Mor Dearg Arête, Ben Nevis (Photo credit: Keri Wallace)

IT’S A FAMILIAR STORY. You love hillwalking but life keeps getting in the way. Your fitness isn’t what it used to be or perhaps you want to do more but have precious little time available. If this sounds like you, you may wonder whether there’s an easy way to improve and maintain your hill fitness whilst capitalising on your free time, doing more with less.

HILL FITNESS FOR LIFE

If your goal is fitness for life, ask yourself how sedentary you are in your daily routine. How much ‘time on feet’ do you have, day to day? Many of us have desk-based jobs and are inactive for hours

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