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Ep. 47 | Semi Live: Functional Fitness for Backcountry Hunters with Brian Austin - Train to Hunt

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Mark, Jimmy and Erik join Brian Austin, a local fitness instructor and big partner of Train to Hunt, to talk functional fitness for backcountry western hunting along with some of the awesome and intense archery challenges they put on throughout the year to get hunters in shape to enjoy their time more in the wilderness during hunting season. Jimmy draws on some of his experience as a former track & field athlete to point out the differences he's seen transitioning to the fitness necessary for hunting and Brian breaks out his pack, sandbags, wooden box and his bow to do some semi-live exercises and instructions for those of you looking to get off the couch this winter in preparation for next fall. We talk where to start, avoiding injury, exercises you can do at home with relatively minimal equipment and how you can even put your work into a competitive outlet with Train to Hunt's archery challenges all over the country. We do our best to explain the exercises Brian is doing verbally, but if you get the chance to watch this one on Youtube, you'll see exactly what he's doing while we record. As always - let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on any one of our social media platforms and using #VortexNationPodcast.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. All right, what's up everybody?

0:17.0

It is not to date this podcast, but it is wintertime and it's kind of a lull in the year as far as oftentimes physical activity.

0:30.0

And it's also a time that people start really thinking about physical activity.

0:35.0

So you got to kind of both things going on there.

0:37.3

Some New Year's resolutions in action.

0:40.2

A lot of folks hitting the gym, thinking about fitness. you know, beach season is just around the corner.

0:45.0

Eric, I know you're excited about that.

0:47.0

Super, like 11.

0:48.0

And so in the spirit of that and in the spirit of hunting and getting ready for fall

0:55.0

and making all of ourselves better hunters

0:58.0

we've brought to Vortex H-Q

1:01.0

in one of our range, the 100- range. We've got Brian Austin from now Brian

1:06.2

I know you have a local gym here in the Madison area and you specialize in fitness

1:12.2

and getting people fit but you're also very

1:15.5

heavily associated with an organization called train to hunt and that's right so if you

1:21.5

can give us a little bit of a high level intro to yourself.

1:26.4

Sure.

1:27.4

Beyond what I just gave and train hunt.

1:30.4

All right. Yeah, I mean you hit the nail on the head there. I have my own studio here in

1:35.0

Fitchburg or in the Madison area get fit with Brian. I've been doing this now for

1:40.8

Jeepers. Like 18 years I've been training people. Yeah.

1:44.0

Oh, where's you been all my life? Right?

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