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Evan Williams How to prepare to hunt fit
Welcome to another edition of Whitetail Rendezvous. This is your host Bruce Hutcheon. We’re going to head over to Salt Lake City, and we’re going to talk to the business development coordinator for Hoyt Archery and How to prepare to hunt fit, Mr. Evan Williams. Evan, welcome to the show.
Evan: Thanks for having me, Bruce. It’s a pleasure.
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Bruce: Folks, Evan is a multifaceted young man. He and a couple of his buddies are also co-owner of iamhuntlete.com, and later in the show we’re going to talk about that. But right now we’re going to start right off and see what kind of results Hoyt had at the World Archery Festival held in Las Vegas recently.
Evan: Yeah, it was a really good turnout, the largest show they’ve ever had with just over 3,000 competitors, and it’s actually a dual competition. You have final stage of the indoor World Cup season, so you have all your international competitors there for that, as well as it being the largest indoor shoot in the world. And it is an open competition, so anyone in the U.S. or internationally can come over and shoot that. And we won Men’s Open in the World Cup and took 2nd on the women’s side. And then we won a pair of recurve golds in that event as well for the World Cup side of things.
And then in the Open Vegas shoot, we took the number one position with Sergio Pagni from Italy. He won in a shoot-off on the first three arrows, which has never happened before, especially with the Lucky Dog competitor. And it’s one competitor out of the field of 899 scoring point shooters that gets to go into the shoot-off for the final big tournament pot. And this year it’s a $50,000 check from the NFAA for the winner, and Sergio won that at the Lucky Dog entrance. He won a shoot-down field of 32, and then went on to the finals and won it on the first three arrows.
And then we also took the women’s championship with Inga. I don’t kwon where she’s from honestly nation wise, but she was in against two very strong Mathews women and she won that tournament.
So we came out on top across the board and just a phenomenal performance by all the archers around the country and did it on the world’s largest scene, so it was awesome. The stage was set for a lot of good things to happen, and everything came together for us.
you and your buddies are doing at iamhuntlete.com.
Bruce: Let’s jump into the show and talk about you and your buddies are doing at iamhuntlete.com. Let’s talk about that for a while.
Evan: Yep. So a buddy I knew from Indiana, yeah, we’ve known each other for a couple of years and we’re big on the fitness side. We both grew up in sports. I was a Division One athlete, and it’s always been a part of our lives.
We saw where the industry was going with the Train To Hunts that are out there and the fitness competition. And what we really noticed is that with a lot of the individuals that are popping up on social media, that there wasn’t a whole lot of expertise, I guess, is one way to put it. No certifications and no education on it that we could find with a lot of these social media pop-up guys. And they’re charging guys hundreds of dollars for meal plans and workouts, and they don’t have the education or the background behind it.
So what we wanted to do is we really wanted to bring a different aspect of fitness and training to the hunting industry. Zach’s background is in exercise and sport science. I have a degree in math and statistics, which obviously doesn’t play into that a whole lot. But with my background in athletics and with my background in the industry, as well as my mother whose degree in masters is dietetics and nutrition, we’ve got a really strong presence I feel like we bring to the table for functional fitness.
It’s how to train, how to live, and how to prepare yourself for reality and everyday situations in hunting.
It’s not throw 150 pounds on your back and go. It’s how to train, how to live, and how to prepare yourself for reality and everyday situations in hunting. Whether you’re a rifle hunter, whether you’re an archer, whether you like chasing whitetail and you’re hunting a couple hundred yards out your front door or from your truck on a back road, or whether you’re hiking in 4, 5, 6, 8 miles and trying to hunt elk or mule deer in the back country in the mountains, it’s a whole different level of training.
And we weren’t seeing that brought to the table nearly as much as you could either train for endurance and be real high lung capacity and have this huge cardiovascular output. Or you got the guys who are the gym rats who are lifting all this weight and really bulking up and putting on the weight and not so much hitting the cardio, so when they hit the mountains, their bodies have been trained for short term, short output. And their body fat percentages may be too low to carry on for 8, 9, 10 days in the back country.
I’ve went for 13 days where I’m not carrying as much food. I’m watching my caloric intake. I’m completely changing my diet in the back country because it’s a different way of living. And my body isn’t getting all the nutrients, so it’s got to feed off something. We really want to bring that to the industry, and we just don’t feel like we’ve seen it.
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