Welcome to the Hunt Backcountry Podcast. This is episode number 475.

Our guest is Scott Johnston. He is an experienced outdoorsman trainer, coach, author, and more.

We speak about training for the specific demands of backcountry hunting.

I know that some of you guys absolutely love this topic

and some of you are probably tired of it.

You may be thinking that training is overrated or just there's too much hype around training.

And in some ways I agree. I don't necessarily agree that's overrated, but I do agree that there is a lot of hype and often were being

sold things in terms of training. Well this is a totally different conversation.

I really wanted to do two things with Scott and this podcast and one I wanted to talk about the specific physical demands of backcountry or mountain hunting and and two, I wanted to give you some why.

Why do we need to train in certain ways and what do we need to do?

It's easy to find training plans, training advice, it's easy to find the what.

But unless you understand the why, you can't gauge whether that training prescription or plan is actually going to be effective for what you need to do.

We get into some specific advice for different types of people,

whether you're untrained, you are a procrastinating trainer

that only trains for hunting

in the final weeks before your trip.

Maybe you're a very passionate endurance-focused athlete.

Maybe you have a focus on strength in the gym.

No matter where you fall in that spectrum, we are going to speak to you

and provide some helpful information to you. So one enjoy this conversation and then two

afterwards be sure to check out all the links in the show description as there's a lot more information for you.

Right now though, let's go today and to talk about training. I had told you prior that although we have talked about physical training

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