Thread: Hunting fitness

So what do you all do for hunting fitness?
I realise there is no substitute for actual hunting but some of us don't have the luxury of getting into the hills every other day.
I've always enjoyed getting into the gym and smashing a few weight over but in the past I have been guilty of being too strength focussed. The old "too much weights not enough speed work"
These days I try for more of a HIIT approach. High intensity done in an hour.
This is my typical training week.
Monday 4.5 km run in the morning before work. I always walk the dog in the mornings before work but this year Ive started running 3 mornings a week and waking him on the other days.

Tuesday 4.5 km run and a raiders Blitz later in the day. A raiders Blitz is 1000m row, 10 burpees, 10 press ups, 800 metre row, 12 burpees, 12 squats, 600 row, 15 burpees, 15 press ups, 500 metres, 18 burpees, 18 squats, 400 metre row 20 burpees, 20 pressups and a 300 metre row to finish.
You can substitute running for rowing if you wish.
This should take you 20-25 minutes.

Wednesday Raiders Blitz

Thurday Upper body workout.This is a circuit. I start with Chins, then Pulldowns, Benchpress, Power cleans, Dumbell press, Dumbbell rows with deadlifts to finish. I lift as havy as I can going for about 5-6 reps per exercise. This way I'm keeping my strength up and doing a circuit with minimal rest between sets keeps my cardio up. I usually do about 1 warm up set and 4 "loaded" sets. Takes about 45 minutes and at the end Im pretty tired.

Friday 4.5 km run in the morning. Legs in the afternoon. This is another circuit. start with lunges , step ups (both 10 on each leg), box jumps (10) squats (10) ,Single leg leg press 10 on each leg, Calf raises 15 on each leg. Thats my warm up. My loaded sets are the same except I have a 15 kg weight in each hand. I'll do about 3 or 4 loaded sets. This takes about 45 minutes as well.

Weekends I'm hopefully hunting.
The only problem with what I'm doing is the short duration of my workouts isnt condusive to build up endurance but that can really be helped.
I've got a walk in trip on Friday to Sunday so it will be interesting to see how I go.