Train Smarter Hunt Longer

Todd and Jordan discuss the outline of a good, pre-season hunting fitness program and how to progress up to it throughout the year. Prep for your hunting season with our comprehensive backcountry fitness program, Backcountry Ready: https://humanpredatorpackmule.com/pages/backcountry-ready

Todd and Jordan discuss multiple strategies for getting and keeping your nutrition on track. For our free resources and to check out HPPM programs, head to https://humanpredatorpackmule.com

Todd flies solo in this episode and covers 5 things you need to do to fit your training in with the physical things you love to do. Join our free Facebook group, Fitness for Hunting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitnessforhunting Download our free book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes Download our free guide Home Gym Essentials: htt...

Todd and Jordan discuss the benefits of max strength and aerobic power training and how to do the right things beforehand to make sure you get the most out of a max strength and aerobic power training block. Join our free Facebook group, Fitness for Hunting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitnessforhunting Download our free book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d...

Todd and Jordan chat about how sleep is harder for people to change than nutrition, fitness testing and why it's important, Jordan's current conditioning program, and Todd's California turkey hunt. Join our free Facebook group, Fitness for Hunting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitnessforhunting Download our free book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-bac...

Todd and Jordan chat about how to beat the all or nothing mindset that holds people back from building momentum and making progress with their training and nutrition. Join our free Facebook group, Fitness for Hunting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitnessforhunting Download our free book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes Download our...

Todd and Jordan chat about their upcoming California Turkey hunt, why you should cool down after a training session, and recovery in general. Join our free Facebook group, Fitness for Hunting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitnessforhunting Download our free book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes Download our free guide Home Gym Essen...

Todd and Jordan talk about the importance of using tools like HRV to track recovery, approaching weight loss, and Jordan’s spring plans for training his bird dog, Matilda. Download our free Home Gym Essentials Guide: https://mailchi.mp/e5be652ea3b8/home-gym-essentials

Todd and Jordan field some listener questions about how to increase leg size and strength while training at home, how to do more pull-ups, and the difference between Eustress training and High-intensity continuous training: Download our free Home Gym Essentials Guide: https://mailchi.mp/e5be652ea3b8/home-gym-essentials Download our free book: 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes: https://mailch...

Todd and Jordan discuss exercise selection and all of the things you should consider when picking an exercise. Download a free copy of our Home Gym Essentials guide: https://mailchi.mp/e5be652ea3b8/home-gym-essentials. And a free copy of our book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes

Todd and Jordan outline the absolute essentials for a home gym. No fluff. Just the stuff you need to get it done. Click the link below to download our Backcountry Fitness Home Gym Essentials Guide: https://mailchi.mp/e5be652ea3b8/home-gym-essentials

Todd and Jordan chat about the specific science behind why it’s so important to start training for hunting season early in the year. Registration is currently open for Backcountry Ready and it closes on Friday January 27. Click the following link to register: https://backcountryready.com/sales-letter-order-form1652040330607

Todd and Jordan chat about things they stopped doing and should have kept doing and started doing again. This leads them into a conversation about how to stay the course and how to stay with a training program based on the science of self-determination theory. Download a free copy of our book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes at the following link: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcount...

Todd and Jordan outline an off-season training plan. Jordan also tried to talk Todd into buying a cocker spaniel. Jordan also explains why the only thing bad about having kids is the stupid stuff they watch on YouTube. Download a free copy of our book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes

Todd and Jordan chat about Todd’s Adirondacks Deer camp and what Todd learned from it. They also talk bird hunting, guns, hunting how you like to hunt, and about which diddies are catching their fancy right now. Download our book 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes for FREE at the following link: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes

Jordan tells the story of his bird dog, Matilda’s, first pointed and killed chukars. Todd and Jordan also chat about how the hard-o mindset is actually detrimental and how to defeat it. Download a FREE copy of 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes at this link: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes

Todd and Jordan chat about why it’s so important for hunters to train their bodies in different positions. They also cover different aspects of training intensity and training organization. Click the link to download a free copy of 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes. Click this link to apply to join our Foundations program: https://forms...

Todd and Jordan discuss the reasons why they rarely program back squats for Human Predator Packmule clients. Don’t forget to snag your free copy of 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes at this link: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes

Todd and Jordan talk about Jordan coming on as an assistant coach, Jordan’s process and experience with training his new bird dog for upland hunting, and in-season hunting strength and conditioning. Download a free copy of 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes, here: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes

Jimmy Gruenewald of Orion Medical Consulting joins me to talk about the necessary kit and skills every backcountry hunter needs to be prepared for backcountry medical emergencies. Jimmy is a physician’s assistant and a veteran of Afghanistan, serving with the 82nd Airborne and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

This episode features a QnA where I answer questions about changing training styles depending on the type of hunt, how to manage some logistics with flying to hunt, and managing your nutrition on the hunt.

I chat with Craig Weller and Jonathan Pope the founders of Building The Elite. Their main gig is prepping candidates for special operations selections. But there’s a lot of crossover between what they do and prepping for backcountry fitness. We talk about appropriate ruck training, mental skills, adaptability, and how to actually train instead of just beating yourself into the ground all the time.

I chat with fellow Pennsylvania boy, Beau Martonik of East Meets West Hunt. Beau tells the story of killing his first bull elk and the e-scouting process that led him to kill it. He also lays out some of the crucial elements of his hunt planning process.

Here ya go! A 5 step process to nutritionally prepare your body the backcountry. Covering: fail activity level, how much and what to eat during training, intermittent fasting and training strategy, what type of workouts to do when you’re fasted.

This episode gives you the goods on how to handle your summer rucking. It covers: how much weight to use, what heart rates to work at, what kind of shoes to wear, how to take care of your ankles, core training, etc. If you want to be 100% prepared for summer rucking, this is your episode.