Picture this: You’ve just finished skinning and quartering a bull elk you’ve worked just about every part of your ass off to kill. Now, you have some roller coaster miles ahead of you. The first stretch of that roller coaster is a steep uphill stretch. Then you have yourself a spicy descent before you hit another long uphill, march. You grab your pack and have a look at the meat as it hangs in game bags; you want to get it all back to the truck as quickly and in as few trips as possible. But there’s a problem — you don’t know how much you should load into your pack at one time.

The following is an excerpt from the upcoming The Hunter's Guide to Uphill and Downhill Training. I'll be releasing more excerpts in the coming weeks and opening up registration for a pre-sale list with sweet bonuses. Mobility, a.k.a. movement capacity, is misunderstood and under trained in the hunting fitness world. Good movement begins with understanding your current mobility needs. You have to test to get a handle on your current needs. Otherwise, you're firing blanks into the dark. Here's a rundown to how we approach movement testing straight from the book.

There’s a lot of biohacking nonsense floating around about training for longevity. The truth is simpler. Intelligently designed fitness training is longevity training. You don’t need to sun your butthole or face east while screaming into the wind, or whatever silly shit influencers would have you do. What you truly need to do is consistently train and eat in a way that’s sustainable while moving your fitness forward. It is simple, but it’s not always easy. And it begins with getting your head on straight.