Fun easy cheap way to burn calories

ectorgarcia

In the last 5 months I have lost 50 pounds and found a new hobby that I enjoy outside with the family. When I first started I just went on walks but the walks were around the neighborhood. My son is a cub scout and we went to a Geocaching event with his den. At first I thought wow geeks walking in the woods with GPS devices not interested but after taking him on a few outings and using a pedometer I realized I was averaging 8000 steps most days we went on these adventures. The best part was he was becoming more active outside as well. If you have a smartphone you have a GPS device so you are just about set.

The premise is easy you create a free account on Geocaching.com and get the coordinates to these little treasures hidden all over the world. Then you place the coordinates in the GPS (if you have a smartphone there is an app)



Then you go walking following the GPS to locations that you might not go to if you were not looking for these caches.





You look around for these little caches that are placed some are big some are small some have cool stuff in them some are just a log to say you were here.







There you go you burn calories and you get outdoors win win situation.

meshashesha2012

this looks like fun.

this is on of the things i'm planning to do once i learn how to drive in a few months and can drive places