Yes, fitness, especially aerobic fitness, improves your ability to recover. That’s important. However, you have to manage stress, fatigue, fueling, and sleep well. Otherwise, your fitness won’t matter. Anything that causes psychological or physiological stress affects your recovery. So, you need guidelines to manage it all. Here they are.

Now, most people give up on weight loss when they can't workout. You are not going to do that. Because in the YouTube video below, I walk you through a case study from my work with one of my Packmule Apex clients.

It’s about time to launch, kids. September gives us a whole lot of hunting opportunities. So, we need to make the most of August with our training. (We technically still treat September as preseason training, but that’s an article for next month.) Being that this month is so important, let’s have us a good chew of the fat on how hunters should train in August. We’ll begin with strength training.

Hunters don’t often think of themselves as athletes. They should. Especially if they are preparing for a big, hard hunt. Athletes approach their training differently in the weeks leading up to a big event. Hunters need to adopt that approach. So, we’re going to talk about it. That approach is called a taper. And it could be the best thing you do for yourself before hunting season.

We’ll start by slaying weight-to-calorie ratio as the most important thing, and we’ll move on to build a daily nutrition plan that keeps you fueled and feeling good while you grind it out in the mountains.

Heavy pack acclimation, long sessions under load, a resurgence in strength, and specific hunting movement prep are all in order to have you conditioned for hunting season. That makes July a training transition month. We progress past early preseason conditioning and begin the march to late preseason. Some important hunting fitness qualities must be restored while others get built.