Thread: Hunting fitness

Just did the Flora, Salisbury Lodge, Gordons Pyramid circuit yesterday and today, bit tired now as was woken at 5am by squabbling Weka outside the hut window. Was blowing like crazy and sideways rain over Gordons, now sitting at home and its over 30C.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Just did the Flora, Salisbury Lodge, Gordons Pyramid circuit yesterday and today, bit tired now as was woken at 5am by squabbling Weka outside the hut window. Was blowing like crazy and sideways rain over Gordons, now sitting at home and its over 30C.

Fifty seven yrs old...yi only a squirt,lotta yrs left in yi yet.
Shit that wee bugger with the cheese is bloody great..laugh every time i see him,so cool.

Man the first post and others stories have resonated with me.

I started hunting 5 years ago (38 now) - was around 109kg at the time but with kids, office work and the usual trevails of life I just ate crap and always struggled on the hills. Every year I would diet and train, get down to 105-109kg, love life for a few months and totally take my foot of the gas - 6 months later I'd be back at 115kg, rinse and repeat for years. I'd always struggle to go more than 10km in a day, couldn't get into the hard to reach places to find the animals reliably and would be totally shattered afterwards and the next day.

Add to that - a year ago i developed acute achillies tendinopathy - tried a whole year of physio, stretches, exercises etc but could never get past 2km before my left achillies would be in agony. Finally stated shockwave therapy on it a few months ago which has improved it drastically and I can now carry a full daypack 5km / 300m up in a single sitting but still have alot of work to go.

3 Months ago - I realised something had to change. My first step was to end a 25 year addiction to nicotine and quit the vape (i'd been smokefree for 5 years). I'm now a week into a full transformation in my relationship to food, what i want out of it, and how to make it work with my training. I'm going big - my goal weight is 100kg but i feel in my bones i've got it this time. I need to do it to help my recovery from that achillies injury, and I think hunting is going to be much more enjoyable and productive once I can do the work when it's called for.

Thanks all.