Weather is changing, are you exercising for the season?

I’m pretty darn active, rural acreage with large yard and garden. But, once again am trying to start a little exercise regiment of stretching, push-ups, crunches, and some cardio! Maybe this is the year that I stay with it! memtb

Excellent post.

3 years ago I made a commitment to be healthy and fit. Lifestyle change for me has resulted in 30 to 35 lbs shed and I’ve maintained a proper weight since.

Walking and jogging have improved endurance and stamina.

It’s not always easy, but it’s worth it to me. And the benefits are far reaching into numerous aspects of my life. Being trim and having good cardio helped, I think, when I started hunting on the move late last season.

Started working with a barbell 4 years ago.

No more back pain. Blood pressure went down 20 for both. Lost 30 lbs and I look a whole lot better. Best part is that I can also go out and jog 3-4 miles with my wife whenever she wants to and I don’t even do cardio.

I don’t do it the way the bodybuilders do though. I still basically eat whatever I want. Since I am more or less on a paleo type diet, it’s not like I am eating that bad though.

earlthegoat2 said:

Started working with a barbell 4 years ago.

No more back pain. Blood pressure went down 20 for both. Lost 30 lbs and I look a whole lot better. Best part is that I can also go out and jog 3-4 miles with my wife whenever she wants to and I don’t even do cardio.

I don’t do it the way the bodybuilders do though. I still basically eat whatever I want. Since I am more or less on a paleo type diet, it’s not like I am eating that bad though.

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My diet is “no diet”! I eat anything I want (part coon ass)....though, it may catch up with me. My day usually begins with 2 average potatoes for lightly browned hash browns, with bacon or sausage, onions, cheese, with 3 to 4 eggs over easy! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for me!

I really should try to drop around 15 pounds, which would put me at 190pounds @ 6’ 0’. Not too bad for 68, but, could be a lot better. I just can’t force myself to restrict my meals! memtb

Where I hunt physical exertion is minimal, deer doesn't know if I'm out of shape or not.

If I were to hunt in some higher elevations where the air is thin and the billy goats live....afraid I'm in trouble.

I haven't really tried anything any different, but I rarely get time to hunt anyway. The spring like weather has me itching for turkey season, but I probably won't get to be out.

Most of my exercising is just doing my job daily, and my diet consists of whatever sounds appetizing. I could stand to lose about 40lbs according to the last doctor I saw, but I can still carry my 90lb kid on my shoulders a mile or 2 before it kills my neck. I don't run often anymore, but if I decide to I can log 2 miles pretty easily. Or at least last week I did just to see if I could.

Now that my leg is good enough to hike im doing that. And i lift some weights too. I disconnected my right quadracep in sept. Im also on a diet. Need to drop about 50 lbs.

I try to walk a couple of miles at least 3 days a week, but I need to add some weights and cardio. Have about 25 lbs of fluff in my midsection that needs to go. Legs and lungs are in pretty good shape, but my upper body strength is gone, but hey, I'm 70. I'll get 10 pounds off during turkey season.

I'm not working out, but I'm dropping some weight.
I've lost 20 pounds since 1/25. I want to lose about 25-30 more.

I'd like to get back to my old high school weight of about 180.
That should help in the deer woods tremendously.

Arkansas Paul said:

I'd like to get back to my old high school weight of about 180

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That would be my early high school weight. Only way I'm getting back there is if like a leg falls off or something.

I train heavy in MMA and kickboxing all week. I guess I'm in good enough shape to hunt, I just hope I don't have to fight a wild animal.

Being fat is uncomfortable in general but getting ready to hunt also helps motivate me. I want to be able to drag a big pig over a mile if I have to. Also need knees used to hiking around. I say hunting is a great reason to be motivated to stay in shape.

Maybe we could have a forum for this lol. I have seen this topic come up here more than once

I guess physically at age 73, I am at nearly the same weight I was at the time I entered military service, and have maintained since 1992 the number of reps with weights I attained after recooperating from a near fatal car wreck in 1992.

I have seen too many people let themselves go, and lost them. I have a cat and a grandson depending on me and greatgrandson I want to help, so I try to keep myself in best shape possible.

Besides, it improves my quality of life to be the best I can be.

Captcurt said:

I try to walk a couple of miles at least 3 days a week

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Even when I was a "40 something" mountain climber, I never did go for "distance" on my exercise hikes; I always went for "time" - still do. Not that I completely ignore how far I hike, it's just that I hike only long enough to get my heart rate up, and keep it there for about 20 minutes a day.
Thirty years ago, I could hike down to Marsh Creek (which happens to be 2 miles away) and back to the house in an hour. And when I was training for a climb, I would strap on a backpack and keep adding milk jugs full of water until it was heavy enough to get my heart rate up for the last 20 minutes of that 1 hour hike. The fact that the hike was 4 miles long was just coincidental.
Nowadays, at age 73, and with the lower 3rds of each of my lungs scarred from a bout with a bacterial pneumonia back in 2005, my heart rate is up in less than 5 minutes into my hike. So I only hike hard for about 15 minutes in one direction, then I turn around and come home. I have no idea how much distance I cover - I know I'm nowhere near half-way down to Marsh Creek before I have to turn around.
Nevertheless, to get back to the subject - my favorite way of mule deer hunting is to climb to a saddle before day break, sit down, and wait for sunup. Hopefully, a deer will either wander through the saddle, or be pushed through by other hunters (unknowingly) as the other hunters are getting out of their rigs back down on the road and moving around. If I don't "score" that morning, likely as not I'll be sitting on the side of the same saddle at dusk - after going back to camp, getting some lunch, and resting up for a few hours before making the same climb to the saddle again.
The real "work" involved in the way I hunt, and what I try to stay in shape for, is the drag out. I'm sure some of the deer drags I did in my younger years would kill me nowadays.

daniel craig said:

Lotta people have to limit their hunts due to physical conditioning. Are you starting your physical prep if you haven’t already?

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As a matter of fact, I've started walking and using my kettle bells again. Seems that this COVID virus also has an adverse effect on wool clothing as my living history stuff is now too small, and my wool hunting stuff also has shrunk.
I need the living history stuff to fit by May 1st, so.....

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Loyalist Dave said:

Seems that this COVID virus also has an adverse effect on wool clothing as my living history stuff is now too small, and my wool hunting stuff also has shrunk.

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Ha! That's nothing! My wife and I will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary this year, but we had to get new wedding bands 10 years ago because our original ones (bought in 1971) had shrunk - and they're made of gold for crying out loud!
Luckily, covid hasn't affected how our new wedding bands fit - at least not much. I think that's because we no longer stop for a pizza or burger before heading home when we're in town these days.

I am. I was in Germany for four weeks on a work trip. It was slightly warmer than the snow covered ground in New York. Made it a point to get outside every day for a least a couple mile walk. Nothing else to do the whole country is locked down. Felt good to get outside. I am back home now and the snow is all gone. Have to quarantine til Saturday if my test comes back negative. The one in Germany did. Anyhow it was good get out and about. The exercise did me well.

I'm in decent shape for my age. I do a brisk mile to mile and a half walk every morning, thankfully the dog makes me do it.

I'm 5' 11", 175 lbs. and will be 74 near the end of April. I was a rail when I entered the Army, a little taller at 5' 11 3/4", and get this, 154 lbs.

As someone said, now I'm 170 lbs of pure muscle, surrounded by 5 lbs of a soft candy shell. lol

Walk my walk dog (or does she walk me?) 2X/day, 1.5 miles each time, 30 minutes each time.
50 pounds down, a whole lot more to go to get down to college weight.

Arkansas Paul said:

I'd like to get back to my old high school weight of about 180.
That should help in the deer woods tremendously.

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I did this about a year ago and have maintained it. Insane how good I feel at (next week) 40. It absolutely helps in the woods. It took two years to drop sixty pounds primarily through diet. As far as exercise I live in the mountains and when time allows I take my dogs hiking, split and haul wood, and I work on my hunting land. Sadly, time doesn’t allow often. The only reason I mentioned living in the mountains is to point out that these hikes are much more than casual strolls.