No surprise to those following me on Instagram: I love hiking. As I talked about in How to start hiking without energy, I needed to train myself up and take one step at a time. Yes, literally and figurately speaking. Here you have another approach on how to improve fitness for hiking: Exercise.

Spending time in nature has so many amazing benefits: increasing creativity, boosting memory, lifting your mood, and giving you more sass to tackle the everyday life head on. Nature and hiking may also help you heal, whether you are suffering from depression or an achy back. But how to start hiking with no energy? How to make it through that door, when you barely feel like getting out of the sofa?