Will wrote:To be honest off the bat, I never do any exercise
Then when I go camping and for a hike around wherever we are I usually flog myself and my legs and back are killing me for the next day or two.
My own fault for being lazy but anyway
A mate who's a bit of a gym junkie suggested getting one of these muscle recovery protein shake things that you take after a workout.
The stuff's not super cheap though, I was wondering if anyone uses it for their exertions and if it you reckoned it was worth it on a once off basis, not as part of a routine.
Bent Arrow wrote:I do think you should bother using the shakes but I can highly recommend you start using an additive. .it comes as a grey powder, you can mix it with water and some other things but I suggest a teaspoon or two on your weetbix every day. Generally comes in a 20 kg bag marked Portland cement (or similar). You should be able to get it at your local hardware store.......... Bwah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah
Bent Arrow wrote:I do think you should bother using the shakes but I can highly recommend you start using an additive. .it comes as a grey powder, you can mix it with water and some other things but I suggest a teaspoon or two on your weetbix every day. Generally comes in a 20 kg bag marked Portland cement (or similar). You should be able to get it at your local hardware store.......... Bwah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah
Bent Arrow wrote:I do think you should bother using the shakes but I can highly recommend you start using an additive. .it comes as a grey powder, you can mix it with water and some other things but I suggest a teaspoon or two on your weetbix every day. Generally comes in a 20 kg bag marked Portland cement (or similar). You should be able to get it at your local hardware store.......... Bwah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah
Bigjobss wrote:I train 6 days a week which consists of a combo of weights, yoga and 30km+ of running (I run a half marathon at least once a month) and even still I will pull up sore after a big day stalking.
No matter what you do unless you consistently do a certain action, range of movement etc you body does not get a chance to get used to it.
One of the reasons its a good idea to mixup an exercise routine every few weeks.
albat wrote:I think alot of people try to cover too much turf when they would be better sitting and waiting in the right areas nothing gives you up faster than movement
Bigjobss wrote:
No supplements?
I STRONGLY recomend a mouthfull of everything by Onnit Labs washed down with some CaveMan Coffee
albat wrote:The best thing about getting older is you get more patient
albat wrote:The best thing about getting older is you get more patient
Diesel wrote:Shot three fallow this year, walked less than 200 meters from the bus each time, about two hours before dawn. Sat down and waited for the sun to rise. They were all swinging in the breeze before 8am whilst I was eating breakfast.
I can't be bothered stalking anymore, too old.
bladeracer wrote:I'll be happy as long as I don't turn into an American "hunter" and start taking a folding chair out with me to sit in a hut, lay out bait and wait for the game to come to me - that's not bloody hunting
Diesel wrote:Is there a certain amount of pain or suffering you need to undergo before it becomes legitimate hunting? Heckler303 seems to think if you are overweight, middle aged and use a .300WM it isn't considered hunting.
Could someone please show me these rules I need to follow so I know when I am actually hunting rather than simply going to the butcher(in actual fact deer hunting is simply meat on the table for me).
Every year I try and give a couple of people the chance to shoot a deer, next year I will make sure they walk around for a week or two in the bush with no result so they get a true hunting experience( hang on isn't that bushwalking?)
So be it.
bladeracer wrote:There doesn't need to be any pain or suffering when you're hunting, you're supposed to be enjoying simply being at one with nature.
I watched a video recently about how to process a deer. Except it was English so the deer was simply driven up to in a fenced field and shot with a .30-06 from the roof of the vehicle by a client paying for the privilege of "hunting a deer". Then he drove up to the fallen deer where a bench was unfolded and the carcass laid on top for processing. He required half-a-dozen knives for different purposes and 40-liters of water to keep his hands clean. After the basic prep he then unfolded a hoist that mounts on the vehicle towball to raise the carcass for skinning and to drop the entrails.
I'm still trying to work out how I'm going to fit a vehicle into my pack let alone the literal half-ton of other junk he "needed"
I think the best thing an over-weight, middle-aged bloke can do for his health is to get out on foot in the bush instead of merely driving through it. But filling the freezer is just shooting rather than hunting, the same as if I shoot a cow or sheep on the farm. Hunting is more than merely shooting and butchering. Hunting is more about finding the game, and then closing surreptitiously with it to take a clean kill without the animal ever knowing it's being hunted.
I would certainly help people to "hunt" deer whether they actually came home with one or not, I wouldn't help anybody to simply drive up to a herd to shoot one and go home believing they've been "hunting".
Diesel wrote:Ummm, I also have a towball mounted gambrel and a hand washing unit on my flat tray, beats the ****** out of bending over or kneeling and it is nice to be able to rinse off.
I have done it the "hard" way in the past but the need to wear leg braces discourages this middle aged slightly overweight male from enjoying hard stalks anymore, your inference that a good walk would do me good is insulting.
And nope, YOU may not class set piece, drives or culls as hunting but there are quite a few new shooters that have been rapt to deck their first deer- so screw you, go back to your paper targets and lattes. Just remember that hunting has always been about putting meat on the table, purism tends to destroy this.
Anyway, I have about three kilos of fallow to mince up with pork fat into rissole mix and re freeze ready for bathurst weekend before I finally get to go to bed.
Call it hunting or shooting? I call it eating meat.