HI
With a recent illness I have put on a few kg's.

How do you guys go about getting and keeping fitness for hunting?

thanks

later
P

Just walk ... change your lifestyle a bit to incorporate more walking ... up the tempo as your body starts to adjust.
Cheers...
Con

I put a backpack with weight on and find a steep hill I can walk up and down for a couple houres in the afternoons.
ozhunter

I run 4 miles at least twice a week and ride a bike at least once per week for 24 miles. Additionally, do a lot of hiking and mountain climbing.

If you aren't hungry, don't eat.

Its very easy do more hunting,best way to stay in shape to go hunting is to do a lot more hunting.

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s very easy do more hunting,best way to stay in shape to go hunting is to do a lot more hunting.

YEP thats it,there is no substitute for the real thing

Running, biking and swimming wont help much at all, as previously mentioned just get out for a hunt on some steep stuff.

I have a steep track only five minutes from home, 350metre altitude gain in 30 minutes, makes the heart pump thats for sure- good training

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Originally posted by steve_s:
Running, biking and swimming wont help much at all, as previously mentioned just get out for a hunt on some steep stuff.

I have a steep track only five minutes from home, 350metre altitude gain in 30 minutes, makes the heart pump thats for sure- good training

Steve:

Uh, I beg to differ. Show me a great athlete who can't climb a mountain...

I agree there is no substitute for hiking hills, but you make it sound like you might as well sit on the couch and eat junk food rather than get out and run and bike.

I think there are two concepts involved, and lots of people get them confused.

Firstly theres physical fitness, and its not so difficult, riding a bike or running will mostly get you there, I live on the flat here, and as long as I "push" myself in training, I can keep up with anyone "on the hill".

The second and most important thing is to have an eye and ligaments for moving in rough untracked country. You can best get this by getting out there and doing it, but thats obviously not practical for everyone. When I lived in bigger cities with limited options I'd use whatever slopes I could find and go at them, up down and sideways NOT on any track or path, what you're trying to do is build you co-ordination and ligaments etc.

The eye for country thing . . . most people get in in a few days to a week, but occassionaly there's the poor bugger who never does, and they either have to work extraodinarily hard, hunt flat country , not that theres much of that in NZ (or if their ethics dictate, use a chopper !!)

Cheers Foster

Coors Light.

I just plod along behind Gary and shoot any pigs comming back at me See that way I don't have to be fit, only he does

If you live a low altitude like in the east near the coast all you can do is walk work out etc but no way can you prepare for the high altitude. That is my greatest concern for next week in NZ. I live at about 1200' and the altitude is going to be the toughest test.

How high are the mountains in New Zealand?

Mount Cook is 3754 metres above sea level - or a bit over 12000 feet asl. Thats the highest we have .....

Its not so much how high its how steep and how much the ground moves under your boots.
The average mountain hight is 1500m-2500m but that is tahr and chamois country.




a chamois in red circle

Thanks for that...We don't have anything near that high in Wales, but I suspect I wouldn't get too homesick in NZ!


A few views of my "back yard"







regards,

Pete

Hey Brno where do you live? Great pics.

Rangi: Marlborough NZ

Pete E: Do you have a few Big Reds running around there?

Geez....

there should be a forum law against publishing pics like these....

By the time I've finished paying for my boy's education, I'll be too old to see it...

BRNO,

There are very few deer in Wales in general although Roe and Muntjac are on the increase as the spread in from across the border and we have pockets of Fallow although they tend to prefer the lower elevations..

The only "game" animals I am aware of in that particular mountain range are feral goats..

There are Reds in the Brecon Beacons which are in South Wales but those mountains are not as rugged as those in the pictures above.

Regards,

Pete

Brno, I thought I recognised the landscape, I too live in Marlborough. Small world