Hiking Skills

Hiking principles and essentials are concern with both the leg movement and the whole body, people should try to balance their body and adjust their pace by waving their arms. Control your walking rhythm, and the best walking speed is walking but without big breath and ensure your pulse is no more than 120 beats/minute. Chin up and straight your back, take your deep breath by abdomen, keep the whole foot touching the ground, the displacement order is from heel to toe. You should keep your steps and avoid speeding up and slowing casually, try to maintain your walking in a uniform step.
At the very beginning of hiking, you should keep yourself a slow movement in order to warm up your body, and speed up the pace after 5-10 minutes. From a security perspective, team members should maintain a reasonable distance. generally 2-3 m, to avoid people falling behind the team by a variety of reasons to make a pause, such as tie their shoes, undress, drink, etc., to make sure the stop walking members can not influence the advance workers. Usually, the suspended team members are walk in the right side and the advanced walkers is certainly for the left side, when meeting with the oncoming team, both sides should keep this rule as a respect. A safe distance between the suspended members and the advanced members should keep in ten minutes' distance or 200 meters in the day time, while at night the distance should be 5minutes or 20 meters. Hikers should develop good habits when walking, make sure that you should not laugh or frolicking, and don't sing loudly, because that may distract the walkers' attention, and also a physical exertion.
When walking in the uphill, keep your body gravity in the forefeet and to lean forward, while, when going downhill, keep and lower your body gravity in the heel part, and keep your body slightly drooping. No matter in the uphill or the down hill, you should keep your space in a zigzag, by avoiding go straight line, this is the relatively safe walking method. Stones, twigs, canes in hand climbing should attempt first by your hand pull, be sure that it's strong enough for you to grab. People often see the players pull withered rotten branches, rattan, which cause falls, injuries and other accidents.
The hikers should also pay attention to their rest principle when walking, generally, short rest combine with long time rest, and the short one is usually the main choice. The short time rest should keep in 5 minutes and without removing the backpacks and other equipment, to rest by standing to adjust the breath. A long rest time should happened in every 60-90 minutes, with a rest time for 15-10 minutes with moving the backpacks down. The first 2-3 minutes standing time is for adjusting the breathe, then sit down, but not to stop to sit down and rest, this will increase the burden on the heart. Hikers can choose to massage the legs, waist, shoulders and other muscles among each other or just by themselves, or they can choose to slay down make sure the leg blood congestion is ready flow into the heart.