Polepole : a training guide for Kilimanjaro and other long-distance mountain treks / Angela deJong and Erinne Sevigny Adachi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

deJong, Angela, author.

Contributor:

Adachi, Erinne Sevigny, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountaineering--Training.

Mountaineering.

Mountaineers--Training of.

Mountaineers.

Endurance sports--Training.

Endurance sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd., [2019]

Summary:

"Polepole" (po-lay-po-lay) -- a Swahili term meaning "slowly, slowly" -- is what porters on Kilimanjaro say as you climb the mountain. It's also how you train for other long-distance mountain treks. Of the estimated 35,000 people that attempt to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania every year, about half do not make it to the top. There are several reasons for this, but one of the primary blocks is people arriving to the mountain physically unprepared for what their bodies are about to endure. Polepole is a comprehensive long-distance mountain trek training manual for anyone looking to engage in one of the more defining moments of their life. As you make your way through gradually intensifying workouts designed by fitness trainer Angela deJong to strengthen your body and increase your endurance, Erinne Sevigny Adachi offers her own Kilimanjaro story. Her journey starts not on the day her feet land on African soil but months earlier when they don sneakers and land on Angela's treadmill for the first time. Her narrative offers insights into what it's truly like to go from wheezing on a light jog to the best condition of her life in preparation for the most rewarding physical challenge she's attempted yet. the first time. Her narrative offers insights into what it's truly like to go from wheezing on a light jog to the best condition of her life in preparation for the most rewarding physical challenge she's attempted yet.the first time. Her narrative offers insights into what it's truly like to go from wheezing on a light jog to the best condition of her life in preparation for the most rewarding physical challenge she's attempted yet.the first time. Her narrative offers insights into what it's truly like to go from wheezing on a light jog to the best condition of her life in preparation for the most rewarding physical challenge she's attempted yet.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

If I wasn't going to make it, it would be for some other reason.

Introducing Your Trainer: Angela DeJong

How to Use this Program

BEGINNER TRAINING PHASE

1889: Beginner Workout One

Africa? Yes. Let's go.

4:56: Beginner Workout Two

With every workout, my body changed.

7/88: Beginner Workout Three

Fuel Your Body: A Note on Nutrition

I absorbed nutrition habits as if through osmosis.

5895: Beginner Workout Four

Hiking at High Altitude

We can always just stop if we need to.

INTERMEDIATE TRAINING PHASE

MACHAME: Intermediate Workout One

I might have had one more round in me. (Definitely not ten.)

UMBWE: Intermediate Workout Two

Then we took some time to appreciate the view.

MARANGU: Intermediate Workout Three

Yes, somewhere there was a bear.

SHIRA: Intermediate Workout Four

Time to Start Packing!

My husband and I are going to attempt to climb Kilimanjaro.

RONGAI: Intermediate Workout Five

You wait until after the climb to try Tanzanian food.

LEMOSHO: Intermediate Workout Six

I wondered what predictions the rest of the team made for us.

ADVANCED TRAINING PHASE

Crisis averted, it was time to get back to the business of training to climb a huge mountain.

CHAGGA: Advanced Workout One

Porters put our bags into large waterproof sacs and hurled them up onto their shoulders.

MAASAI: Advanced Workout Two

It's the coffee. I promise.

KITENGE: Advanced Workout Three

Erinne, pushing polepole to the extreme!

SHUKA: Advanced Workout Four

Two natural stone pillars mark the entrance.

MBEGE: Advanced Workout Five

His body gave it away despite himself.

CHAPATI: Advanced Workout Six

Before we were ready, it was time to move again.

UGALI: Advanced Workout Seven

My toes took it especially hard.

ACACIA: Advanced Workout Eight.

I wondered why I had yet to feel like I'd accomplished anything gr - Gah!

It's so much sweeter that they do it for themselves.

Those boots took her father to the top of Kilimanjaro.

THE WORKOUTS

Acknowledgements

Appendix A.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77160-314-3

OCLC:

1111952877