The 3 Numbers to Check Before You Book a Kilimanjaro Trek
Before you put money down on Kili, check three numbers. They predict how the trip actually goes, and every one of them is fixable with enough runway.
Altitude, strength, and your own data, written for professionals in their 40s and 50s who still have a big one left on the list.
Base Camp is not a fitness test, it is a decision test. Here is the exact way I get a 50-something professional ready, three markers at a time, without wrecking a knee to do it.
Before you put money down on Kili, check three numbers. They predict how the trip actually goes, and every one of them is fixable with enough runway.
The program that built you at 25 is quietly breaking you at 52. Same volume, different body. Here is what changes, and what to train instead.
Two different bodies. A trek only rewards one of them, and it is not the one you build under a barbell.
Most people wear the device and ignore the signal. The four metrics that predict how you will hold up.
The descent, not the climb, is what wrecks knees. Whether yours will hold up, and how to train so they do.
Why a strongman and former intelligence officer coaches people up mountains, and what the trail taught him.
The trip that keeps sliding to next year. The honest math on the window, and why starting is the whole game.