Does anyone get in shape for hunting

[fearnodeer]

I've just started hunting again, and this last season i went out for a hike in the woods and realized, i was out of shape for this. It's been 8 years since i have hunted and oboy was i in for a surprise. Must of sounded like a truck hicking through the woods. Since then i have started working out. I am now up to a 10k hike with a 25lb pack. So i was justs woundering how many of you work out just for hunting.

[killman]

Tune-up the truck and quad. Cooler on wheels.

[Dragginbait]

I thought round was a shape.

[270WIN]

since i started hunting i been in good shape as i played alot of ball hockey. great for cordio but last few years stopped playing hockey. Last year hiked up a hill that never bothered me befor by the time I got to the top thought my heart was going to come out my chest. Since then I hitting the gym at least 3 days a week and it almost time to start throughing on the pack and hitting the hills

[Gunner Staal]

I snowshoe in the winter when possible, stair climber if I cant get out...and then hike all summer to get ready for the season. It makes Alpine hunting so much more enjoyable when you dont feel like your going to die the whole hunt.

[fearnodeer]

You guys know i coached womens soccer, played hockey and played football. (Glory Days)

[moosinaround]

If you get in shape for life, you are in shape for hunting as a default! I am a portly fellow, and decided last April to lose a bunch of weight and get ready for a backpack hunt this year. So far 67 lbs, but my overall health has improved also. I climb stairs, gullies, whatever I feel like! I feel like a new person. I have a long ways to go, but I had the best hunting season ever in 2010, packing out a moose on the packboard, seeing new hunting spots in areas I have hunted in for 20 years! So yes hunting is the activity I am setting my goals for now, extending and improving my quality of life trumps the hunting! Moosin

[Camp Cook]

Never been overweight or out of shape so no I do not do anything special to get ready for hunting season and I'm now 51 years old...

:mrgreen:

[fearnodeer]

Is that why they call you camp cook?

[.270]

Weights and snowshoes in the winter and I hit the mountains as soon as the most of the snow is off in the spring.

[Islandeer]

Whiskey and women. :-D Real man training ....

[Jelvis]

It's been studied in BC that fifteen people out of one hundred get in shape the rest eighty five per cent don't give a rodent's derriair about any thing other than the couch potatoe.
Jel .. a road hunter don't need to walk .. lol .. the truck duz the work ..

[kennyj]

I trail run and pump iron all year to stay in shape for hunting. If I didn't hunt I'd probably be a cow.
kenny

[takla1]

i lost{but found it again lol}15 lbs this last,late season deer hunting those elusive blacktails following my buddy Ruger no1 up these god forsaken mountain sides.payed off with two -4 pointer s,and a three pointer,but boy did my feet hurt by the end of nov....

[Phil]

I hit the gym most week days and go for a skate 3-4 times a week.

[Jelvis]

Skate oh? Do you skate lakes hunting for moose while ice skating?
Jel ( Doctor Phil ) skating lakes for moose.

[kyleklassen]

i go to work ....and waalaaa paycheck and workout all wrapped in one.

[porcupine]

Definitely when planning a moose or goat hunt. Otherwise, not so much. But always get the trigger finger and gun in shape.

[pnbrock]

I Am Doing Curls Right Now 12 Oz Sets Of Whatever.

[Singleshotneeded]

I give my sweetie lovins' from on top three times a day beginning August 1st, and by hunting season I'm ready for anything! The best, most fun exercise doesn't require a gym membership!

[Camp Cook]

Is that why they call you camp cook?

Nah... Camp Cook is a play on my name by my buddies and I wear it with honor...

[pnbrock]

singleshotneeded are those three pump sets.....lol

[Buck]

singleshotneeded are those three pump sets.....lol

More like two pumps and a quiver:wink:

[Singleshotneeded]

Three pump sets and a quiver at the end...and she's on board with it, calls it Awesome August! Gotta love a good woman! :-D

[gwillim]

Ski touring when there's snow, hiking when there isn't. In the Fall a rifle and field dressing equipment are added to the pack...

[gibson]

I like to get off the couch as often as possible, walk to the kitchen, open the fridge and grab a beer....