How does your job prepare you for the mountain?

[Decker9]

Shift millwright, 12 hour days 4/4/365, unscheduled down time isn’t an option. Our plant is 4 levels and built of stairs and ladders, add in a 40 pound tool bag plus parts. The job keeps me in good shape, but is also hard on the body. A mountain hunt is a cake walk compared to a day at work.

 

[K9kodi]

I get out of breath tieng my shoes

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Job? I ain't got no stinking job.

 

[flathead#2]

I retired Monday.
Been busy - I'm already sore.
No longer sitting in front of that stupid laptop all day.

 

[satchamo]

My job actually does the opposite since I sit on my ass all day and stare at a screen.

 

[Snow Panther]

My job actually does the opposite since I sit on my ass all day and stare at a screen.

About same situation for me. Several years ago, with all the "daily steps counters" apps on our phones, I realized that I was way too sedentary, and I started to do a daily walking routine. Depending on the season and weather, I walk either early in the morning before work, or during lunch break, or after work, some times twice daily. During work time, I also try to seize any opportunity to stand and walk down the stairs to get some documents (instead of asking someone to bring it to me).

 

[realunlucky]

I retired Monday.
Been busy - I'm already sore.
No longer sitting in front of that stupid laptop all day.

That's awesome congratulations

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[Forestryman2010]

So I get to spend a lot of time outside in the woods as a forester. I get to walk a lot. Unfortunately, I’m in the Florida panhandle and I’ve found mountain elevation to be very unkind and the air to not be near thick enough.

 

[Huntndog]

I train and board dogs. Stay active through the day. Our kennel is 150 yards from our office, so when dogs come and go I try to walk or run back and forth rather than use side by side. It adds up.
Probably the best thing I did last year was instead of mow the dam to our pond on a tractor I did it with a push mower, up and down. Did as much as I could each day. By the time I got done it would be time to start again…

 

[SleepyJones]

Oil patch trash.
Experience on the backroads (tire chains, tow straps, winches).
Used to being outside in poor weather conditions.
Calling: it's loud on site and I don't care if I annoy anyone with some random bugling (no one cares anyway and I bugled a future hunting partner in, lol).
Scouting: Where I work is where I can hunt so I can 'scout on the fly' when driving back and forth to site.
I'm literally typing this at work right now... so definitely e-scouting.
My schedule is 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off so I have half the year to do whatever I want, plus take additional time off for bow season.
Assigned company truck which I use on days off; cuts my fuel cost down to zero.
I spend a good portion of my work life in dry camps so I utilize my time to work out and it's SUPER easy to eat nutritious healthy food.

 

[Ianmac]

I’m a pencil pushing bean counter! While I’ve always been “in shape”, from sports, my general body type and just being young, only in the last 6 months, after comparing step counts with my girlfriend, have I realized that “in shapeness” was for show. I lift weights about everyday, mix in cardio and eat healthy. And yet, got humbled by my buddy who works construction, never lifts, and eats like crap, climbing a mountain during hunting season this year. Moral of the story is a sedentary lifestyle or job for that matter has some real repercussions, at least for myself. I’ve had to change the way I go about my fitness and only now are my eyes being opened to what the right kind of daily movement can do for you. In hindsight, I feel like an idiot for not noticing it sooner, but grateful to be less naive, at least little bit anyway.


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[TrailDog]

Forester and wildland firefighter...probably the best possible job for hunting season prep. I get an hour a day of paid PT to train, run, lift, etc. That alone keeps me in pretty good shape. On top of that, about 1/2 my working hours are spent outside beating brush and hiking around the woods, never on trails, scouting out timber, firelines, GPS tracking streams, wetland boundaries, etc. We find tons of great hunting ground just walking around the woods for work, never mind all the sheds, rub lines, wallows, secret basins, etc.

More than anything though, we get tough. You get used to getting smacked in the face by brush all day, hiking up and down wet slopes in the rain, crawling over blowdown, puting miles and miles on wet, sore feet, etc. No amount of fitness or training can prepare you for how miserable the mountains of NWest Montana can be in November. So it's nice to be fairly numb to the suffering once hunting season roles around : )

 

[JustABritCrazy]

Forester also. Typically average 10 to 15 miles a week hiking in the woods doing plots and finding property corners/lines. I’m going on 65 and my doctor says I’m in better shape than 95% of his patients. Also try to put in an additional 5 to 6 hours a week in the gym hitting weights and the elliptical. Still do some wildland fire and need to pass a physical fitness test. Walked two mid twenty something’s into the ground in one morning last hunting season

 

[nphunter]

Lots of time to e scout while looking at a computer. I have a couple of my bulls and several sheds to help keep me motivated and can watch deer and elk out my window.

 

[sshhh]

Move a lot at work, move a lot when i'm in the mountains. Makes it easier.