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Together We Go

0123- Strength and Endurance with CEO of MTNTOUGH | Dustin Diefenderfer

Together We Go

Greg Lapin

Society & Culture

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dustin Diefenderfer, founder and CEO of MTNTOUGH, is an ultramarathoner and backcountry hunter, as well as a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer, who emphasizes mission-specific training, blending strength and endurance for the challenges of backcountry hunting. Beyond MTNTOUGH, his life includes running an orphanage in Uganda with his wife, emphasizing the importance of physical fitness, entrepreneurship, and outdoor activities.

MTNTOUGH website: https://mtntough.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, man. What's up? Just rolling down for the the Hunt Expo. It's going to be sweet

0:16.5

Be busy this year. Well you seem super excited about it. It's the it's a trade show life right now in the hunting industry so back to back to back and this is the last one every year.

0:30.0

And it's always it's the biggest one too, right? It's the biggest one. Yeah, it's great. I think the industry is is ready for like show season to wrap up by the end of February because there's been so many in a row.

0:43.0

But other than that, everyone's pumped.

0:45.8

It'll be good to see everyone.

0:47.5

Yeah, I imagine for you teaching, I mean, you teach everybody but specifically having programs to teach

0:56.6

hunters to become more capable physically around this time period is good because it's enough time to prepare for their September-October hunts.

1:06.5

For sure. Yeah, we always talk about for a hunter that's going to go on a backcountry trip,

1:13.7

whether that's a sheep, on a goat hunt,

1:16.4

Colorado elk, Utah elk,

1:19.2

ideally at a bare minimum, they should be looking at preparing for 16 weeks, four months.

1:26.7

And that would be absolutely like minimum to thrive in the backcountry.

1:32.4

So people people people get by and survive with 30 days or two

1:38.6

months of training on the elliptical, but if someone really wants to thrive they need to think about like a four month mission specific program to get ready for that hunt.

1:49.0

And then anything in addition to that is icing on the cake.

1:53.3

So the best scenario is someone

1:55.7

training like a pro athlete where they're training seasonally.

1:59.4

So post season strength in the off season and then

2:03.3

and then go into mission specific prep.

2:06.6

So for a hunter that mission specific prep

2:10.3

has to start in May if they're going to haunt in September.

2:13.0

A minimum of May.

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