Todd and Jordan talk about Jordan coming on as an assistant coach, Jordan’s process and experience with training his new bird dog for upland hunting, and in-season hunting strength and conditioning. Download a free copy of 5 Biggest Backcountry Training Mistakes, here: https://mailchi.mp/6b25d93d4bea/5-backcountry-mistakes

Jimmy Gruenewald of Orion Medical Consulting joins me to talk about the necessary kit and skills every backcountry hunter needs to be prepared for backcountry medical emergencies. Jimmy is a physician’s assistant and a veteran of Afghanistan, serving with the 82nd Airborne and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

This episode features a QnA where I answer questions about changing training styles depending on the type of hunt, how to manage some logistics with flying to hunt, and managing your nutrition on the hunt.

I chat with Craig Weller and Jonathan Pope the founders of Building The Elite. Their main gig is prepping candidates for special operations selections. But there’s a lot of crossover between what they do and prepping for backcountry fitness. We talk about appropriate ruck training, mental skills, adaptability, and how to actually train instead of just beating yourself into the ground all the time.

I chat with fellow Pennsylvania boy, Beau Martonik of East Meets West Hunt. Beau tells the story of killing his first bull elk and the e-scouting process that led him to kill it. He also lays out some of the crucial elements of his hunt planning process.

Here ya go! A 5 step process to nutritionally prepare your body the backcountry. Covering: fail activity level, how much and what to eat during training, intermittent fasting and training strategy, what type of workouts to do when you’re fasted.

This episode gives you the goods on how to handle your summer rucking. It covers: how much weight to use, what heart rates to work at, what kind of shoes to wear, how to take care of your ankles, core training, etc. If you want to be 100% prepared for summer rucking, this is your episode.

Flying solo on this one. I lay down my process for improving my mental skills and resilience. And I tell ya a story about why not doing this when I was younger pretty much ruined my college football career.

I chat with UK-based Strength coach and athlete Dan Reeve about using your “1%-ers” to drive recovery, the basics of endurance training, and coaching philosophy.

Jordan Wilcher joins me to share his experience from his first season of competitive shooting and shares some takeaways we can apply to rifle hunting.