Thread: Hunting fitness

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.