Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today is a throwback to

2019, episode 523, when we talked to Rowan Smith about training. And since we had this episode,

Rowan has started a podcast, which he actually talked about in this episode called Training for Trekking, the Training for Trekking podcast.

And it's all about how to get ready for, you know, a hike or trekking or backpacking-based adventure.

You know, if you're getting ready for something like this, you might be thinking, you know, should I do more cardio, should I do more muscle, should I do more flexibility? How do I avoid injury? You know, how do I get ready for something that maybe I'm hiking for a week, but I work, you know, a full-time job or two full-time jobs? You know, there's a lot of us putting in some crazy hours out there.

How do you fit it all in?

Well, Rowan's going to teach you how to do that.

He's got a lot of great information in this episode and also in his podcast.

So check it out.

All right.

Let's go ahead and dive in. Today, we're covering a topic that is definitely something I need to work on.

I don't typically, in the past, I used to not train so much and let my body just kind of take a brutal beating every trip. But I was younger then. I'm not so young now. And I got to really be de diligent about preparing myself. And today we have Rowan Smith that's going to come in and help us do that. Rowan, welcome to the show, man. Oh, thanks so much for having me. Yeah, excited to be here. Awesome, man. Where are you coming from today? I'm coming from Sydney, Australia, this morning. That is awesome. I bet it's nice and warm. Yeah, it's looking like it's a nice day outside, so I might be popping down the beach after this. Not bad at all. Awesome, that's fantastic. So yeah, man, so tell us about your company, Summit Strength and what you do.

Yes. not bad at all awesome that's fantastic so yeah man so tell us about tell us about your company Summit Strength and what you do yeah so basically what I do is on Summit

Strength is a personal training service which specializes in preparing hikers

trekkers and backpackers for their bucketless adventures basically so So for a lot of people I deal with,

people are going out on these big adventures. So things like they might be going over to Nepal for

the Himalayas. They might be doing their first, you know, going to have Kilimanjaro and trying

to climb up that or doing their first multi-day trek. And basically people come to see me just to sort

to get that real confidence in their physical performance and also just get on top of the injury sides of things so they can go out and not only complete these adventures

But actually be in a position where they can thoroughly enjoy the process and not just be dragging their feet the whole way and just praying for the end in all honesty

Wow. Now do you think there's a lot of that in the adventure world?

Yeah, absolutely. Like, I know, I think one of the big things in the adventure world is you hear a lot

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