Here it is the second month of the new year.
Since my fiasco of a hunt last deer season, due to being old, out of shape, and a weakling, I'm working out now in preparation for this year's upcoming hunting season. I don't know what, if anything, you all do to get in shape but I've started with low impact stuff that doesn't require much financial expenditure.
I wear my hunting pack and boots and hit the wife's treadmill, squats with pack on, and lunges with the pack on. My weakest part is my legs and my arthritic knees cost me my deer hunt this year I'm ashamed to say. I've vowed to not have that happen again. It's been twenty years since I've been in a gym and I'm not in much of a hurry to go in to another one. So I look for low impact, no swimming or bicycle, exercises to strengthen my legs. Any ideas beyond what I'm already doing?
I've hit the "Old Fart" category at work and just hangin' on. I try to use my brain and not my brawn these days. What all do you all do to stay in shape for hunting season?
Biker
Since my fiasco of a hunt last deer season, due to being old, out of shape, and a weakling, I'm working out now in preparation for this year's upcoming hunting season. I don't know what, if anything, you all do to get in shape but I've started with low impact stuff that doesn't require much financial expenditure.
I wear my hunting pack and boots and hit the wife's treadmill, squats with pack on, and lunges with the pack on. My weakest part is my legs and my arthritic knees cost me my deer hunt this year I'm ashamed to say. I've vowed to not have that happen again. It's been twenty years since I've been in a gym and I'm not in much of a hurry to go in to another one. So I look for low impact, no swimming or bicycle, exercises to strengthen my legs. Any ideas beyond what I'm already doing?
I've hit the "Old Fart" category at work and just hangin' on. I try to use my brain and not my brawn these days. What all do you all do to stay in shape for hunting season?
Biker