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<blockquote data-quote="Buano" data-source="post: 1994447" data-attributes="member: 21641"><p>From my experience, guides don't want to scare off potential paying clients so they will say fitness matters but not go as far as they should. Fitness is the limiting factor in many if not most Western and mountain hunts. Going downhill with a load is harder on most hunters than going uphill. Leg extensions and squats are at least as important as aerobic work. </p><p></p><p>I won't say it will take a year to get in shape for a mountain hunt because I don't know what condition you are starting in or the nature of the mountain hunt. On some hunts you can ride a horse within a mile of where you will end up. Contrast that with my last Western hunt where my GPS tracked 13,600' of vertical climb on foot, up and down mountainsides — in ONE day. (Yes, I got a nice bull that day.) We spotted a herd on the move and that is what it took to get ahead of them. Most hunters would not have caught up and gotten ahead of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buano, post: 1994447, member: 21641"] From my experience, guides don't want to scare off potential paying clients so they will say fitness matters but not go as far as they should. Fitness is the limiting factor in many if not most Western and mountain hunts. Going downhill with a load is harder on most hunters than going uphill. Leg extensions and squats are at least as important as aerobic work. I won't say it will take a year to get in shape for a mountain hunt because I don't know what condition you are starting in or the nature of the mountain hunt. On some hunts you can ride a horse within a mile of where you will end up. Contrast that with my last Western hunt where my GPS tracked 13,600' of vertical climb on foot, up and down mountainsides — in ONE day. (Yes, I got a nice bull that day.) We spotted a herd on the move and that is what it took to get ahead of them. Most hunters would not have caught up and gotten ahead of them. [/QUOTE]
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