Physical Education 4

• Physical Health

  • Improves stamina, endurance, and muscle strength
  • Improves flexibility and agility
  • Good aerobic exercise
• Mental Health & Well-being

  • Improves self-esteem, mental agility, and self-awareness
  • Helps sharpen your brain
  • Preparing, proper training and good physical condition
• Promotes physical fitness, economical and convenient, do not require special equipment
• People take multi day trips in a rural rugged territory
• Normal walk in a park or expedition in a mountain range
• Can incorporate outdoor sports such as rock climbing or backpacking
• Recreational activity where journey is more important than the destination
• Long journey to be undertaken
• • Hiking - hikers can destroy the natural environment they walk in through
• • Trekking - environmental impact can be greater than hiking as it takes longer
• • Hiking - usually in beautiful environments, nature trails, hills where there is no means of transportation
• • Trekking - mountainous areas
• • Hiking - depends on the weather, applicable shoes to hiking terrain, water, compass, hiking pole, backpack with survival kit, food, medicine
• • Trekking - survival kit, camping gear, boots, compass, clothing applicable to changes on temperature in mountainous areas
• • Hiking - outdoor activity of walking on pre-charted paths called hiking trails
• • Trekking - not necessarily mountaineering, it is walking of days on uncharted paths on challenging environments such as mountainous or hilly
• Tramping in New Zealand
• • Bushwalking in Australia
• Trekking in Nepal
• Backpacking but should not be confused with mountaineering
• Cardiovascular Strength - covering large distances, the heart has to pump harder to keep up with the oxygen demand, increasing blood flow to the muscles and brain
• Weight Loss - activities help shed unwanted fat and water weight within 6 weeks
• Cleanses the Lungs - by breathing fresh air
• Build Strong Bones - it requires stretching, jumping, climbing and dodging. Weight training add on bone density
• Agile Muscles - excellent strength, energy and strain of a trekker lead to exercising core abdominal muscles to quads and calves
• Cool Mind and Excellent Focus - must have clear thoughts and prepared mind
• Interval Training - out burst of exertion, walking and climbing hills, metabolism functions better
• New Look on Workout - new scenery, different terrain, almost no equipments
• Mental Benefits - reduce stress due to endorphins, improve memory and functionality of the brain, appreciation to the world