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. <a href="https://medium.com/@sabaulaura/a-sedentary-person-goes-hiking-what-could-go-wrong-10e07aa0ddbd">Read More</a>