Welcome to the GIF-FIC guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the GIFT guy, and in today's episode, I'm going to give you three lessons that fitness enthusiasts can learn from modern hunters.

Now, think of the old school, good old boy traditional American hunter. What comes to mind?

Maybe a redneck and a tree stand over some kind of a cordon feeder. Perhaps someone sitting for

hours on end and a roughly constructed camouflage blind, occasionally tapping away on candy

crush on their phone. Or maybe somebody driving a big truck with a gun rack on it, windows

down, peering out into the field for some game to shoot.

Well, true hunting, the way our ancestors would have tended for their nutritional needs,

is pretty different than what we think of when we think of hunters these days.

But fortunately, many modern hunters are now embracing the concept of enhancing nature and sensory awareness, wilderness tracking, and survival, and they're now incorporating

pretty impressive amounts of physiologically appropriate hunt training, breathing sensory awareness, wilderness tracking, and survival, and they're now incorporating pretty

impressive amounts of physiologically appropriate hunt training, breathing techniques, and

heart rate control.

So in this article, I'm going to give you three specific strategies and lessons you can learn

from a modern fit hunter, lessons that you can take with you to maximize your fitness

success, even if you're not a you to maximize your fitness success even if

you're not a hunter and have zero desire to be one.

So let's start with this one, natural movement, functional fitness, and agility.

In a recent podcast interview over at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com with the founder of something

called Train to Hunt, and I'll link to that one in the show notes.

Just go to quick and dirty

tips.com and look for this episode, episode number 324. My guest, Kent and Claremont, described

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