Welcome to the Hunt's Backcountry podcast, and today we are continuing in our series,

The Backcountry Blueprint. If you are new to this series, I definitely recommend going back to the

previous episodes. Again, this is part five, and I would start at the beginning. We lay the

context for the series, why we're doing it in this data that

you'll hear us discuss, and how that data came together. But essentially, we have 1,500 hunters

roughly who completed a survey, essentially, and this whole idea of the series came from

those hunter responses.

So when you look at 1,500 hunters and you get their input and their experience and summarize it into what actually matters, that's what we're discussing in this series.

And today in part five, our topic is the physical foundation of backcountry hunting.

So we asked these hunters specifically,

and what areas do you need to improve your physical capabilities for future hunts?

And also be sure to address any times that these hunters have quit early

or basically not been able to complete a hunt fully because

of their physical capabilities.

And whether you're one of these guys that really gets into training or not, physical capability

is extremely important for backcountry hunting in particular.

And so a bunch of guys get way into this topic

because they just enjoy training. Maybe they're an athlete, former athlete. They love working out.

They love the gym. Or other guys like, hey, I'm going to do the least amount possible. I don't like

going to the gym. I don't like working out. I just want to be

outside and do my thing. And so there's all kinds of people with all kinds of experiences and their

past and opinions, honestly, on the best type of training. But again, in today's discussion,

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