One of the first things someone new to hiking should do is get in shape. That’s especially true if you’ve been sitting on the couch for the last few months or more. Hiking most obviously uses the leg muscles, but virtually every muscle group is involved. Also, it requires very good cardiovascular and lung capacity […]

Famous soccer player Kevin Keegan, also affectionately known as “Mighty Mouse,” once claimed that soccer was a painfully simple game that simply required that one team “score more goals than the opposition.”  While this may be true to some extend, the points are not always the goal in soccer. As a matter of fact, while […]

Even experienced hikers will rely on maps or GPS units to navigate along trails and through wilderness areas. In fact, it’s the MORE experienced hikers who tend to do this and the beginners who think they can just wing it.
Amateurs will often reason that they can stick to well-traveled trails and forego the hard work […]

Soccer is one of the most demanding sports in the world. The game lasts 90 minutes with just about 15 minutes rest at half time.  So it is really a lot of hard work for the athletes. Furthermore, considering the size of the playing field, it is normal for a professional soccer player to run […]

GPS is an acronym standing for Global Positioning System. Though there are lots of components, the essential parts are a series of satellites and the units people carry. Three satellites are used to locate your position across the Earth’s surface and another can be used with them to calculate your altitude in a process called […]

Soccer games are usually high intensity, and can be stressful on any athletes’ body. The best way to reduce most of this stress and keep yourself feeling good during the game, is by stretching before the game, and practice. Stretching before a soccer game, and practice is important, and can be beneficial to a player’s […]

People who live in urban environments sometimes seem to forget why they came to a wilderness area to hike: peace and quiet, and great scenery. To enjoy that themselves, and to allow others to, hikers generally adopt a few  common sense guidelines.
‘Pack it in, pack it out’ is a long-standing rule among fair-minded hikers. In […]

Perhaps the only person in the history of western civilization wherein the gender line was blurred was within the American-Indians culture.  Thus, many different spheres may create variants between males and females; however, when examining these variants across all scopes, predominantly one shall ultimately discover that the same broad principle is always applicable.  When a […]

Ouch! You’ve been on the trail for a few hours and you’re on your way back. Unfortunately, you still have a few miles to go and you just noticed you’ve got blisters. That turns a pleasant hike back into torture.
Blisters are caused by friction between your skin and your sock, and hence from the wall […]

When you take a look at the average group of kids playing soccer in a schoolyard or maybe on the grassy area by the playground, you will notice that almost everyone is running after the ball trying to make a shot.  There is a lot of hollering and hooting, and sometimes even the goalie will […]