General physical preparedness is best for long-term health and injury prevention in hunters compared to repetitive, sport-specific training.

“If you do those things year round and you continuously just train those single modalities or single movements, I think one, you're going to have some burnout. Two, you're going to have injury because you're doing the same repetitive thing.”

Watkins believes that reverse sled drags are particularly beneficial for strengthening the quadriceps for mountain hiking.

“I wish I did more sled pushes, but more importantly sled drags >> for your quads like reverse sled drags backwards.”