Hunting Preparation Is More Than Just Equipment

I am familiar with the exhaustive gear checks and endless checklists that hunting season brings into the picture, but sometimes the best protection you can pack is inside your body. I know that important tools, like knives and cordage, as well as ways to start fire in a pinch are the mainstay of any survival pack, as well they should be. However, the one step in preparation that most hunters completely neglect is their physical fitness.

It is a proven fact that when a hunter, or anyone in general, faces demands that hunting places on the body, the more fit you are the better you perform. We witness this every time we watch a boxing match, an MMA fight or a football game. Whichever athlete that takes the time to prepare for the rigors that will inevitably come by participating in their chosen sport, will have the edge. For some reason, sportsmen think that this observable tendency doesn’t apply to them.

There are myriad reasons why sportmen should improve their fitness before stepping foot in the field. Just to list a few we have reduced risk of heart attack, higher tolerance to climbing mountains and a higher degree of cold tolerance as well. This is one facet that many hunters neglect to consider in their preparation. If a hunter is in good shape, he tends to tolerate the cold better.

This higher degree of tolerance for cold is very important given that many hunting seasons coincide with the most dangerous periods of the year, spring and fall. Now summers are by in large hot and you do have to be aware of heat exhaustion and dehydration, but it is predictable. Winter as well, is predictable in that it is typically very cold. Given the fact that hunters are in the field for a lower amount of time in those two seasons and they typically are dressed for the consistent weather pattern, you understand why few hunters have as difficult a time. Spring and Fall, however, offer the most extreme temperature and weather variations sportsmen will see all year. This can create a real recipe for disaster if you are not in the best shape you can be.

It really isn’t tough to get into shape for hunting season and what we have done here at Creating The Luck is to establish a progressive video fitness training series which will take you from a sedentary, untrained state of fitness and bring you to a higher and safer level of fitness that will allow you to conquer any obstacle mother nature will throw at you while you are in the field. Make sure you check the video series out and get started as soon as you can to make sure you succeed in this years hunting season!