Hunting fitness & injury prevention for the backcountry

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

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🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Prompted by a question from Alaska listener @michaelaanavi, this episode dives into combating the affects of middle-age loss of fitness, as well as injury management and prevention. Simple but effective exercise regimens and specific types of relevant strength training are discussed, as well as dieting and mental toughness.

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0:00.0	All right folks, welcome back to the backcountry hunting podcast.
0:04.0	Today we're going to talk about two critical things, keeping your mind and keeping your body
0:10.8	fit to hunt the backcountry. This is partially as a response to a request from
0:17.6	Michael Onavie, I hope I pronounce that at least somewhat close to correctly, who
0:22.3	terms himself a big island boy in Alaska,
0:26.2	forager and fish smoker. Man I love it. I love getting a feedback too. He wrote me this message on Instagram and said at some
0:36.8	point I would appreciate an episode on physical training and prep for backcountry
0:41.4	hunting ideas regiments, etc.
0:45.0	Especially for those of us who are middle-aged and may not be able to carry quite as much
0:51.0	or climb quite as high as we once could. Now this is a subject that's important and quite
0:59.4	personal to me. I'm in that boat myself. I'm 43, I'll turn 44 this summer, and every
1:08.6	year it gets a little harder to get to the top of that mountain. Possibly because of that it also gets a little
1:14.2	more rewarding and the top of that mountain has a little more draw a little more
1:18.4	magnetic pull for me. So it's important to recognize this slow onslaught of age and it's slowly disabling
1:30.0	effect on our bodies and to preempt it as we begin to reach middle age.
1:36.0	Now before we dive into how we can really do that I want to touch on a subject that a good
1:41.9	friend of mine, Skip Knowles, he's the editor of Predator Nation
1:46.9	and Wildfowl magazines and a long time backcountry hunter from Utah and Colorado.
1:53.0	Actually, he's from the northwest, but has spent a lot of time hunting Colorado and
2:00.4	Utah and other states in the backcountry and he made a point almost kind of
2:05.1	impatiently one day that most guys even guys aggressively hunting the backcountry aren't doing it on that dream 10-day
2:16.4	backpacking trip or horse pack trip or flying trip in Alaska. No most of these hunts occur as day hunts, where some enterprising fellow or he and
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