I’ve been camping in a hardwood forest in Pennsylvania for almost a week now. I camp here twice a year. In the spring, when the forest is coming back to life after the winter, and in the fall, when the colors of the leaves are out of this world.
Every day has its same routine. I, and couple of friends spend around 2 hours cutting and dragging down dead firewood from the hills around the camp site. After that, I go for around three-hours walk in the woods by myself.
You can imagine what kind of physical shape I’m in after these trips!
It’s much more effective working out in nature than exercising in a gym. Not only does the whole body get a workout when you have to run over rocks and jump over ditches, carrying 100 pound logs. The mind also quiets down and takes a breake here in the wilderness.
Working out in nature (even in the yard) has been proven to lower blood pressure, eliminate depression, reduce stress and boost the immune system. To put it simply, it improves your overall health.
I believe these two camping trips are the key to my wellbeing for the rest of the year.
I’ve brought so much knowledge back from this place. In fact, it was after one of these trips that I got the idea for my high blood pressure program.
I noticed that my blood pressure had dropped drastically after the trip. Then I began to wonder what it was that really made the difference (and it wasn’t really the hard work) and how I could create that atmosphere to lower blood pressure in any situation.
So it was here that this amazing program became an idea.
I’ll keep you updated on what comes out of this trip 
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
PS: A link to the blood pressure program and links to my other health programs area on the right upper side of this page.
Dear Christian,
What a coincidence! I have similar experience like you about working out in nature is better than in an airconditioned gym.
I am living in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a big, crowded, heavily poluted metropolitan. Fresh air is a bit of a problem overhere. Lately, in a new shopping mall near my house, a gym, branch of a popular gym chain was open with much promotion and attractive discounts for new members. My wife and daughter became members, but I was not interested. I don’t like exercising in an airconditoned room and besides I don’t like the music, I am too old for that.
Instead of going to the gym, I adopted a piece of land near my house, offered for sale but neglected by the owner to become overgrowned with wild shrubs and weeds. I cut the shrubs, weeded and tilled, mostly in the morning before I go to office. I usually work barechested to get the suntan as well. The effect of working out in the open air is amazing. Same like what you experience in the forest in Pennsylvania, and as proven by others who works in the yard as well.
Thank you for sharing with us your programs.
Warm regards,
Gunawan Suryomurcito
16 May 2007
Jakarta
Indonesia
i get immense physical pain in my head neck and shoulders, which makes me anxious and depressed, through out the winter and when ever it is raining and mseraable weather, apart from a light pod witch treats the condition SAD what else can i do.