Funny you should mention this smart a$$
but I was thinking the same thing. Ideally the Bowcast Blogs and banter will stay just as interactive as it has been throughout the hunting season. I think that a thread like this will be useful to many of us who are looking to start conditioning and also as a way to keep our minds on bowhunting.
I lost a crap ton of weight a few years ago and began mountain biking religiously. I hurt my knee, got lazy and put almost all the weight back on, grrrr... Sooo I believe that I am going to use Colorado as my incentive to quit smoking and get back in better shape, 50 pounds lighter. I toyed with the notion of getting Dan Staton to devise me a workout and I could document my progress on here, but I don't want to fail miserably in front of all of you and ruin my supersweet net rep
I am going to start jogging lightly very soon, just to burn the Backwoods cigar smoke out of my lungs. I will about a 15 minute ab routine after each run. Not really because I expect to uncover them from the 60 pounds of deep fried venison generated lard but because it is an easy place to lose weight if you target it correctly. And if you don't, almost every other part of your body will drop weight except in the ole beer tank.
I am sick of lifting weights and I don't have a ton of extra time so I will limit myself to 2 sessions a week and supplement those workouts with cutting wood. I want to use this spring to cut wood and clear some of the mature forested areas of my property to make room for new undergrowth, bedding areas, mast tree plantings, and possibly some small, late season food plots. I have a lot of mature Poplar trees that, weird enough are actually worth a little money right now b/c pallet factories are in need of the wood. Normally, they purchase crooked, wood from regular mill yards but being that the price of timber, like everything else, is in the tank, they are purchasing poplars to make the pallets. By hauling the trees in I can pay for the food plots and trees from timber money. I get plenty of exercise running chain saw and splitting the limb wood.
Once weather breaks, I am going to get on my bike with a vengeance. For the past couple years, I have ran a 400 bike race in MI, but I think I will be more focused on Co. this year so I am going to opt out and will not have to do as much road training and be able to really grind out some hard miles on the downhill and freeride trails.
Quitting smoking will help me get in shape and also generate a huge amount of cash to spend blindly on hunting 'necessities'. It's gonna be tough as hell though. And as I mentioned, the clearing of the forest, has multiple benefits. I have lived in East Lansing for the last ten years and drive back and forth to do a lot of the activities that I enjoy. By moving back down home I am hoping to be able to accomplish more this year than in the previous 5 years combined.
If all of these goals end up in the 'pissoir'. I'll still bend Colorado over and beat it like I owned it. Besides, staying fat will help me roll down the mountain faster!
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!!!!). Sierra Club and Outward Bound got together and are offering a lot of programs to Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Vets. Includes the expedition cost and travel to/from. I applied and was picked for dog sledding out of Ely, MN for March. They've still got to review and approve my application, but I'm hoping for the best. Looking at the syllabus it looks like no physical joke. Between mushing & trail breaking no one gets to ride. That is pushing me to get in better shape and it'll give me an excuse to buy some new gear 
