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amazing video! very informative

Lots of great information

Great vid

I have heard experts say stretching is useless. Galloway, for example

Thinking of potentially doing this as a last minute decision starting this week. Good guide 👍🏼

Guernsey holds a round-the-island walk each year. 16 miles of the cliff paths and 24 miles of road/track. It's a killer!

Gret video. DO you know if this is still a safe route to take if you ent to get down the cliff

It wasn't One of the first AONB it was THE first.

Thanks Matt - really helpful!

Great video. Thanks for the tips

Super helpful video! Thanks

I found ingelborough the most challenging, I started at Ribblehead. I'd never done anything like that before but like you didn't think it was that hard, aside from blisters. I didn't have your camera issues or the terrible weather to contend with though.

Excellent video. Probably should have watched it prior to the walk. Would recommend it to others planning Hadrians Wall Path.

thanks mate!

RIP Sycamore Gap

Training for a hike is pretty much the same as regular sports training for a marathon. Vary your training in training blocks of 6-10 weeks with a rest week at the end to benefit from super-compensation and recover fully and avoid overuse injury. Only do stretching if absolutely necessary during the entire tour to avoid muscle pulls. Plan stretching blocks after the tour when the body has time to heal and is growing back stronger, because that's when it gets tight inevitably. If you get tight easily during the tour it means you have small muscle imbalances in your hip and you need to do better warm ups in the morning. Most important part of gym training for hiking is injury prevention. Easiest part of that is keeping a minimum level of flexibility that allows for good posture and full range of motion without discomfort. At a minimum you need two stretches - one for the front and one for the back side - couch stretch and toes elevated forward bend. All other stretches are optional but doing more doesn't hurt. The most important muscles to train for injury prevention in pretty much all sports are the glute minimus and medius along with the lower part of the glutes and abductors - with clam shell type movements and weight up to 20lbs. Other muscles you have to train are the adductors, inner hamstrings, inner hip flexors, deep lower abs, and obliques + QL. For performance you primarily have to do glute-ham raises and glute bridges. Reverse Lunges and Split Squats do wonders specifically for uphill performance. Regular squats and deadlifts are optional but it's common to get athletes in their early 20s up to at least 2x body weight.

I really enjoy your videos, and I am sorry for your misfortune which is also your viewers and subscribers' loss of lots of fun and learning. This is to be expected in countries where life can be desparate and that, frankly, in societies that are not as evolved and civilized as your own society. I guess in the future you will upload everything daily to remote storage. Hard lesson of life. Really, you are fortunate you did not undergo violence in the poorer countries. A non-lethal handgun would have been wise. And thank God you did not undergo injury by not having the right equipment in dangerous Nature, including bear spray. I was relieved that you both made it through unscathed in this way. This is the way of naive youth, which we all pass through, and so that added to the story. Hope you are not too discouraged and will go on pursuing your life's adventure, enhanced by new wisdom, and sharing it with us.

Made me sad to see the sycamore gap 😔

Great summary, thank you! You’ve inspired me.

Fiction books should not be included here. It’s a different genre altogether.

0:20, this place is in a scene in a movie- Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves

Loved your video. No need for talk, the music was nice. Best bits are where you lie down look around and say as I imagine, can you believe this? Really well done

Thank you!! you gained a subscriber. I love your content. May I ask which month do you recommend me to do this walking with my teen boys?

thankyou for this great guide

Should I also have a supervisor in the window for my squats

I am planning to do think hike this summer late June or early July. Question!?? Do you suggest booking accommodations ahead of time or would it be ok to do a walk-up?

I'm just beginning to do research on this and your video was very helpful. Enjoy the beer!

Hello Matt, I Am a student in swansea and planning to do a 3 -5 day camping trip in gower. Which month would be good for it considering the weather?

Walked this trail as hiker green horn and this trail made me fall in love with hiking...what a great time to have in my memory

Walked a large section of this earlier in the year - and those steps are a killer (especially as from time to time there seems to be step slightly bigger and it jars your knee - worth it though). Cheers for the video

Top work soldier. Did you still need to use any sort of map ?

Can you do the way by bike?? Is it allowed?

Where did you stay?

That pointing needs redone.

Hi mat , thanks for this video,me and my brother are planning to walk this next year . Your video has been a really good start to educate me on what I am in for. Really appreciate you making the video you did a great job 👍 cheers mat

Thanks for the video! That was very helpful!

That was a gem of a video, clear crisp well exposed with stunning views.

Well done Matt, good trail tips vid 👍 I did the HWP last year and my own videos. Had a great time! Subbed 👍 Justin

Looking to do this next year 😊

Fantastic and informative video thank you

Sad to see this channel is dead just when I discovered it.

Just come across your video - thanks! Thats where Im from!

Sorry we missed this! Could not go because rainy season!

Could you let me know please how often you had to cross fiels with cows grazing on it please?

Hi, what time of year is best? Spring?

Good tip about the wind. Well done.

Our walking group is tackling Pendle Hill today , and I hope we visit Foxes Well as Im interested in the Quaker movement . Many Thanks. R

We just did East Meon to Cocking and it was gruelling. It seemed like most of the way, the ground was hard chalk and flint. Feet absolutely annihilated after 20 tough miles

Did this In the same conditions in 8 hours 40mins a few weeks ago loved every minute of it

Great video Matt! I've been considering this walk as my next long distance walk ad this was super informative. Thank you :)