BowCast Blog

6:30 am morning bible study 1/2 bagel (whole-wheat w/flaxseed) 2 tbsn peanut butter

7:30am drop truck off at the shop...$700 heater hose ...FORD :(

Emails, phone calls, etc

10am 1 cup egg white substitute, 1/4 cup fat free cheese, 1 whole wheat tortilla, 6 almonds

12pm Train CrossFit clients

2pm Final walk through on new facility...yes!
< br />3pm Apex Protein Cookie

4pm 5x5 Backsquat : 225lbs, 235lbs, 245lbs, 255lbs, 260lbs wow!
3 mile run on treadmill o 10% grade...had to take a break every 1/2 mile ...soaking with sweat!

5pm 1 cup yogurt Dannon light & fit, 10 almonds, 2 oz chicken

6pm Train CrossFit clients

7pm SHOT my bows!!! woohoo, getting ready for that bear hunt coming up.

8pm Lakers loose, YES! 1 cup cottage, cheese, 4 oz chicken, whole wheat tortilla, stuffed!

9pm Business meeting with partner, ordering equipment, construction costs bids

12am I need to sleep

1am lights out!

Flew back from AK last night, was too tired to unpack until this morning. I'm burried with call backs and emails, due dates, clients, athletes, etc.

Thought I would do a week's worth a general fitness journal. I do have a trail running race in two weeks, but I am mainly getting ready for a duathlon that's about 6 weeks out. I'm cracking down on the food intake and vamping up the intensity. I will try to post each day's recap for about a week so you can get an idea how I prepare for races, bowhuting, and really just general physical readiness.

Our component for strength training is among us. I will now start implementing daily entries on the routines that I am currently pursuing and you may scale them to suite your fitness level. My advice to all bowhunters and sportsmen alike is to pursue fitness daily, eat consistently well, and shoot straight. Strength is a prerequisite for bowhunting out West, out East, and out anywhere else in life...you must have an uncompromising and even relentless approach to reach new strength levels. There are numerous strength types out there (IE relevant strength, speed strength, power strength, etc) and we'll hope to tap into all types and their requirements. Resistance or strength training may be used interchangeable, but keep in mind that resistance is your stressor of some form that creates the need for a response. Let's make sure we provide clear instruction to our bodies, get the proper adaptation, and then have the results pay large dividends come late summer!

One of the most abused or overlooked components of working out is taking the time to incorporate a proper warm-up.  Instead of jumping right into a gut busting workout or half heartedly performing a few static stretches, try integrating a proper dynamic warm-up.  This is the only way to prepare your body for the demands that a workout may have on you and decrease your chance of injury.  The first part of a warm-up is heating your body which simultaneously increases your respiratory rate, blood flow, oxygen, which will enhance delivery of nutrients to your body's cells.  This ultimately notifies your body's systems that some demanding work is approaching. 

As an addendum to my last post, check out the video below. I go through S.M.A.R.T and how it applies to bow hunter fitness.

Redefine your goals...Redefine you!

Welcome to my BowCast blog - "Bowhunting Fitness with Dan Staton". I have teamed up with BowCast and Sportsman's Fitness to bring you a blog that is dedicated to fitness for the bow hunter. I have very excited to get underway. As a short introduction on what I plan to cover over the next several weeks, check out the short video below.

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