{"id":6240,"date":"2021-08-25T06:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2021-08-25T06:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:22:05","slug":"hiking-and-weight-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/hiking-and-weight-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking and Weight Gain: Why Are These Linked? Survey says…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
You’ve been training for that long hike for months by eating healthy, exercising, and doing everything you can to prepare for such a long hike. Now that this hike is over and you have gotten back to your regular routine, you hop on the scale and realize that you actually gained weight. Why did this happen? Let’s see why hiking and weight gain might be related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some hikers may experience weight gain because of an increase in water weight, an increase in muscle mass, or because of a rapid intake of high calorie foods.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We asked the hiking community if they experienced weight gain while hiking. While we did not get the answer we were looking for, other research gave us some insight as to why weight gain or hiking might be linked. There are a couple of ways that we could approach this, mostly we will analyzed how exercise and weight gain are related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t