i have 84 days to get into better, much better shape!
 

Sept 10, 2012..i will be in IDAHO with this:

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to look for one of these:

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i have been running, biking, and doing high school excercises..(up/downs, push ups, situps..etc). hope to add some long weighted hikes soon. anything else?

Cut out the booze and smokes too.

What is that, a jet pack?

It's the "Road Warrior" edition.... :)

Vash - cut out all bread!

eff that. Get a quad with a winch on it.

One word.... CrossFit!!!! It will kick your ass into shape!!

84 days is more than I would need.

Where are you going?

Based on how dry it is here we are already planning on changing our bow strategy. I was about 20 yards from a nice big bull still in velvet this weekend in Estes Park. The only thing I was shooting was the camera though.

I have the same bow, btw.

Arm rotations, fifty one direction, fifty next direction. small circles of one inch to large circles of six inches. Arms kept straight do not bend the elbow. When you can no longer stand it take a rest and start over. Oh, you should be doing about 10 sessions of these per day along with other calisthenics. You wanted arm strength....

You could also go out to talk with any local farmers who are baling hay and lift and carry and throw the bales! Hard work, most people cannot do it! Muscle mass does not matter, stamina does. My Wife outperforms most men and boys year in and year out. She can put up more hay than most and she is not that big. Lift and throw, 60 to 90 pounds per bale.

Are you camping or staying in a hotel / ranch?? Is Idaho draw?? I'll be moose hunting in AK that week

Absolutely, but be careful of over-training. A visit here will help considerably with the other 80% of getting fit. 84 days is plenty of time.

Whereabouts in Idaho will you be going? Idaho does have some very productive elk habitat. Particularly in the panhandle.

BASTID!!!

I would gladly be your personal trainer and have no mercy as I didn't draw ANY elk this year. It might be a beotch now, but it pays HUGE dividends in that thin air. Let the air outta 1 for me, woulja!!!

spend two months with Jillian Michaels..

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OTC buddy. got some intel on some elk. you could pick me up with that bad ass duramax as you drive by..haha.

9dre. we are not hoteling it. we will set up a basecamp with a popup trailer..and bivy it up for several days "up there".

the only shot we have of getting one is to get away from people bugling out of their trucks or off ATV's.

i ran 3 miles fairly easy this weekend. but walking up a big mountain..i feel woefully unprepared.

Eye zee Moose....vhat abowt squirrel?

I saw one of those on a beer bottle once. Was I scared? Never.

Px 90.

BTW, I think that's an Elk......

Vash, get a cart....good enuff for Casey Martin. :D

Why are you going to use a section of board fence to look for elk?

The elk is on the other side of the fence...

Aaaahhhhhhhhh

stairs...go to you local HS and run sets up, walk down at the FB stadium.

P90X (same difference). Three weeks into it right now and I and wife can already see differences.

Vash,

I take it that you will be doing lot of walking up and down trails or even X country humping some weight on your back? Way back when I was bike racing and running x country in high school, I thought I was in shape. I was in great shape for the sport I was involved. Come backpacking time, in the high Sierras, it kicked my fat ass. I was not used to caring weight and walking for miles at a time. The terrain and the thin air killed me. My biddy came back from the Marines (basic) kicked our skinny ass because he was so used to walking for miles with a pack on him. My suggestion is to get a pack and load it up with some weight (#20?)and start humping the local hills.

Oh, the year after high school, only the two of us nut jobs were able to hitch hike across the Sierra backpacking. I prepped for that one. Once a week, I walked with a 25 lbs backpack and my dirty boots in my local hills. I would do several loops near the police academy which is right by my home every Thursday after school for about four hours . I had no problem on that trip that summer, but the #60 lbs pack still kick my fat azz near the end of the day.

Oh forgot to tell you, I did it once a month for three months before the trip. I was still putting in 400 miles a week riding and racing.

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K-E diet to get the weight off, then go do a boot camp!

great advice. i will do this right away. trying to find some of those cool traffic sign sandbags in our office right now. great way to insure my new boots are broken in too.

Heck, I just stuck a bunch of cans, bottles of water and a big jacket and my running shoe (just in case), to take up all the space in there. This way, I will also get used to the sagging off balance, sagging pack too. Well, most of the weight are on the hips.

ditch that contraption and get yourself some stout English Yew