When we decided to hike the Inca Trail I did what I usually do. I searched the web for information and blogs. I found plenty of blogs but very few from the perspective of middle aged hikers. I decided to document our family trip with G Adventures in case there were others out there looking for the same information I was. Our family consists of Neil and I (both 52) and our 23 and 21 year old sons who had just finished university.
After reading about how difficult the hike was I decided that the best thing I could do was to be in good physical shape. To that end I started going to a fitness boot camp twice a week and trying to fit in at least one more cardio session each week starting in January before our May 4th departure. One thing I didn't do was train stairs specifically. First of all I don't have access to a stairclimber or multi story buildings and secondly, I was a little nervous about wearing out the knees before we trekked. I did do many many squats and lunges to build up muscle in my four months of training. I also walk daily with my dogs.
Neil didn't do anything specific to train but he does have a job where he does a lot of walking and stairs.
Neither of the boys felt the need to train (plus they were pretty busy with school).
We chose the Peru Panorama trip because I wanted to do the home stay and also because I felt that the extra few days at altitude would help with the trek. From my talks with some others who had spent less time at altitude I think it was a good choice.
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