A Sedentary Person Goes Hiking: What Could Go Wrong?

That person is me.

I have a sedentary lifestyle at the age of 28. My back constantly aches, my knees feel numb, and my vision blurs while staring at the screen.

I am an architect, but is not as fun and healthy as I imagined. I find myself confined to my office chair from 9 AM to 7 PM. It is no secret that humans are not designed to sit on a chair most of their waking hours. And I think is sad that my life became that way.

But recently, I had a wake-up call.

I decided to challenge myself and joined a hiking group for an arduous 8-hour walk on a mountain. But it wasn’t any ordinary mountain; it was the rocky Retezat Mountains, standing tall at over 2,000 meters height.

Not much to my surprise, I almost fainted during the hike.

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