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East Meets West Hunt

Ep. 033: Don't "Bonk" in the Backcountry with MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9796 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, I am talking with Dustin Diefenderfer, Founder of MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab. Dustin created MTNTOUGH to help individuals become more mentally tough, believing this is the key for them to reach their specific personal and professional goals. I share my personal story about “bonking” in the backcountry this past September, and talk about how to use their Backcountry Calorie Calculator to prevent this from happening again. Topics: My Pennsylvania whitetail season update to this point Dustin’s 2018 Hunting Season What is MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab Backcountry Hunter Program - A fitness program built for the backcountry hunter “Bonking” in the backcountry Backcountry Calorie Calculator New programs on the horizon for MTNTOUGH Fitness Resources: Resources: Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt                  @beau.martonik                  @mtntough_fitness Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors                 MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Are you an adventurer looking to take your hunt to the next level and you're in the right place.

0:05.8

Welcome to East Meets West Hunt with your host, Beaumartonic.

0:16.7

Hey, everyone.

0:18.2

Just wanted to give a quick introduction here before we get rolling with the podcast with Dustin from Mountain Tough Fitness Labs.

0:26.4

So this podcast, I just finished recording with Dustin here a little bit ago and really excited for how that one turned out.

0:34.4

And I think there'll be a lot of information there with when it comes to

0:39.3

backcountry nutrition from a standpoint of a lesson that I learned as well as just overall

0:48.1

mental toughness, backcountry fitness, that whole ordeal.

0:52.3

So I can't wait to get into that but before we get started

0:56.5

there just wanted to give a little bit of an update with how the white tail season's going here so

1:01.6

we're getting really starting to see some scrapes popping up in the woods starting to see some

1:08.3

deer movement we've had a lot of cold weather here in

1:11.5

pennsylvania recently and really getting me excited for the coming weeks here so after the end

1:19.6

of this week here i will be off for two weeks straight off from my day job to hunt and they're going to be starting off in Pennsylvania from

1:29.9

I think it's October 27th here through November 3rd and then on the morning of the 4th I'm flying out

1:38.4

out of Pittsburgh heading up to Edmonton, Alberta to hunt there for the next, you know, six days there.

1:45.9

I am extremely excited for all of that to take off here and to kind of flip back a little bit to

1:55.1

Pennsylvania. In the big woods here, I was just out today hanging some stands.

2:01.4

And I like to to really, I guess, hang my stands and everything as this season's going on.

2:09.0

And may seem like that's kind of counterproductive as far as if you just have them all placed

2:14.6

and everything ahead of time, you know, you would be good.

2:18.9

But I like to hunt fresh signs sign so as scrapes are popping up as i'm starting to get some camera pictures some um different

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