BowCast Blog

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!

Adaptive Benefits from Resistance Training ***National Academy of Sports Medicine

Physiological

- improved cardiovascular efficiency (your heart become more efficient)

- beneficial endocrine and serum lipid adaptations (your cholesterols get put to good use)

Physical

- increased lean body mass (improved metabolics)

- decreased body fat (look sexier for the bow-ladies)

Performance

- increased metabolic efficiency (stay lean)

- increased tissue tensile strength (more strength, decreased injury potential)

- increased bone density (never a bad thing to have strong active bones)

Check back to this blog more frequently as your workouts are going to periodize out until late summer...

By the way, the sportsmansfitness.com website is under new construction and we'll be up again shortly.

Keep it tight.

***Dan performing a front squat; this move is fundamental for total body strength