Hunters spend hours e-scouting the backcountry in an effort to create a best-case scenario — a successful hunt. It’s high time they put an equal amount of time and effort into emergency planning and wilderness medicine training. According to ...
Alaska Hunting Guide Gets Prison Time for ‘Wildlife Crime Spree’
Stephen Jeremy Hicks is a former Alaskan hunting guide with a penchant for playing fast and loose with game laws. He first had his license put on probation in 2016 for not providing clients with contracts and failing to maintain safe field ...
Bear Blood May Hold Key to Best Supplements for Muscle Growth — It’s Science
A study recently released by Japanese researchers reads like a superhero origin story: Scientists extract blood serum from a creature and use it to grow human cells like some kind of super brew of muscle-building supplements. Then, of course, Japan ...
Stamina vs Endurance: How To Run Farther and Longer
Running is a great way to improve your fitness. It’s also a pivotal skill for military personnel and first responders. But to improve your fitness and build your overall running ability, you must improve your running stamina. Some might argue over ...
Why Hunters Pattern Their Shotguns: Dialing-In Your Turkey Killer
Many hunters go their entire lives taking the just let ‘er eat approach to shotgunning. And they never truly know where their shot is flying. These are the hunters who routinely whiff on gobblers that go scuttling off to roost another night. Then ...
Spiderman Pushups Throttle Your Core, Spandex Is Optional
Pushups are what they are, a very functional, boring-as-all-hell exercise. And they don’t get more interesting after doing thousands of reps during a training career. What’s more, the standard pushup’s narrow focus limits its positive effect. Pushups ...
Roman Chair Situps Are Bad for You – Don’t Do Them
Roman chair situps are a core exercise used by old-time strongmen. Picture singlet-clad guys named Bartleby and Xavier hoisting round dumbbells over their heads, their handlebar mustaches waxed to perfection. Since strength training’s antiquity, the ...
How Many Pushups Should I Do a Day?
You clicked on this article because you’re looking for an answer. Maybe you’ve been doing pushups in your training program for a while, but you’re not sure if you’re doing too many or too few. Your pushup motivation may be inspired by a PT test or ...
Duck Boats You Should Totally Buy, From Functional to Fully Tricked Out
Duck hunting presents three big problems to overcome: getting to your duck spot, retrieving the ducks you shot, and hiding from the ducks still circling overhead. Duck boats typically solve the first two problems, but some badass boats solve all ...
Goblet Squats: An Easy Way to Change Up Leg Day
Learning to squat is hard for a lot of folks. Most do some kind of ass drop that shoots them forward onto their toes. They follow that up with an ass pop like they should be covered in glitter and surrounded by the scent of lavender. “Everyone ...
Cold Weather Trout: 4 Tips and Tactics for Winter Trout on the Fly
Standing with a fly rod in a cold, free-flowing stream full of hungry trout without another angler in sight: that’s the beauty of cold-weather fishing. Fair-weather anglers are at home warming their toes by the fire. They believe winter trout fishing ...
Proper Pushup Form and Why You’re Probably Doing Them Wrong
“I bet you guys have never done pushups.” I get a chuckle out of guys every time I say it. And I say it every time I start with a new group of operators. These dudes have braved multiple selection courses while spending their careers in the ...
6 Simple Steps for Duck Hunting Creeks: Guns, Gear, and Tactics
Waterfowl hunting is some of the most fun that a guy or gal can have in the outdoors, and puddle ducks are some of the tastiest critters on the planet. Yet the barrier to entry to waterfowl hunting seems huge if you don’t have big water flowing ...
How to do Bulgarian Split Squats
Bulgarian split squats, also known as rear foot elevated split squats, were popularized in the 1980s by Bulgarian weightlifting coach Angel Spassov. This gnarly single-leg squat variation is revered by all who do them, and for dang good reasons. ...
DIY Alaska Caribou Hunt Checklist: How to Hunt the Dalton Highway
In May 2020, my friend Steve Opat of Alaskan Odysseys hit me with the news over the phone: “Change of plans. Alaska caribou hunt. We’re hunting the Haul Road.” We’d planned on going after moose that fall, but the ‘rona shut down access to the ...
Ditch the Situps: Better Core Training for Hunters
Situps. Crunches. Russian Twists. These abdominal training dinosaurs still show up in hunting fitness programs even though they should have been left to fossilize long ago. While the burn they produce might feel productive, situps and their brethren ...
Wilderness First Aid: The Backcountry Medkit Every Hunter Should Carry
Backcountry hunters obsess over dialing in their gear. There’s ultralight gore-tex this and treated down that. But there’s one piece of gear to which many hunters don’t pay enough attention: wilderness first aid and the medkit they carry. Jimmy ...
Upper Body Strength: Presses That Will Get You In Hunting Shape
Upper-body strength isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about getting fit for hunting season. Prepping to traverse rough country and haul a heavy pack tends to make hunters focus on their legs and core the most, but a strong upper ...
Backcountry Hunting Self Care: Stretches to Keep You Healthy
Backcountry hunting beats the hell out of your body. Long hours are spent hiking with heavy loads, followed by long hours spent glassing. After that, the backcountry hunter catches some Z's on uneven ground, doing their best to avoid the rocks, ...
Proper Deadlift Technique: 4 Steps to Dial in the Correct Form
Many deadlift attempts are DOA before the plates ever leave the ground because most folks don’t know how to lock in their setup. But with a basic understanding of position, leverage, and tension, you can dial in your deadlift technique and rip heavy ...
How to Master Proper Squat Technique: It’s All About Your Form
The squat should be easy to manage. Grab some weight, sit down, stand back up. No rocket surgery is required. Then why do so many folks struggle with squats? It’s because they’re missing form tweaks that dial in the proper technique. Each ...
How to Crush Pushups: A Simple, Effective Training Plan
Chances are you've been doing pushups since the Presidential Physical Fitness Test challenged your mettle back in elementary school. But have you been butchering them? Do you know how to effectively increase your max reps? It turns out there's a lot ...
Improve Your Pullups: A Simple, Effective Training Plan
Pullups are the premier test of upper body and relative strength, but most people struggle to eke out even a few reps. The reason isn’t just weakness. Most people who are bad at pullups have either poor shoulder and upper back mobility, are ...
Mobility Drills: Training for Hip and Back Health to Keep Pain at Bay
Here’s a bright and shiny newsflash for you: there’s an 80% chance that you’re going to experience back pain at some point in your life. There’s a 50% chance you'll feel that pain within the next year. It’s the number one pain complaint every year ...
Building Muscle Mass: How to Convert Heavy Fall Foods Into Strength
Summer is ending, and fall is creeping in on us with its usual guarantees: shorter days and calorie-dense foods. With stick-to-your-ribs family dinners, fall festivals, and holiday parties coming one after another, calorie intake typically skyrockets ...
Kettlebell Carries That Test and Build Strength and Endurance
Picking up something heavy and walking with it is a very human thing to do. With our relatively short torsos and long limbs, it’s what we’re built to do. So it’s not a shocker that carrying shit is one of the most effective ways to train the human ...
Explosive Exercise: Build Power and Endurance at the Same Time
The explosive exercise training method comes from the Russians: Yuri Verkhoshansky, to be specific. (I know, I know, but the bastards know how to train.) It's a form of interval training that improves the aerobic abilities of your fast-twitch muscles ...
Add Core Training to Your Rucking Routine for Elk Hunting Prep
September is so close you can almost hear the bugling of a bull elk in the distance. If all goes to plan, you’ll be hiking that big boy out of the mountains in quarters. You’ve been rucking to prepare, but adding some simple core training will have ...
Improve Run Times: This 2-Step Training Program Will Make You Faster
Whether you have a PT test coming up, are prepping for a selection course, or just burning up shoe leather for your own satisfaction, if you want to run faster, there are two performance areas where you should focus your training: heart rate and ...
A Beginner’s Guide to Kettlebell Exercises
First, we broke down the granddaddy kettlebell exercise: the swing. But that was just the beginning. These four killer kettlebell moves that anyone can do — the goblet squat, the clean, the press, and the Turkish get-up — will take your kettlebell ...
