Mobility, power, and strength are all important. But without endurance to sustain them, they aren’t as useful. Endurance is the product of one main factor: an efficient aerobic system. Without an aerobic system that’s doing its job, you’re bound to ...
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Sperry Ranch: A Story of a Modern American Cowboy Family
More than a century after Theodore Roosevelt’s experiences in the Wild West, the spirit of the cattlemen and cowboys remains strong as ever among the ranching families of the Upper Midwest — as it does on Sperry Ranch. The Sperrys are a great ...
5 of the Best Places To Climb East of the Mississippi
When it comes to world-renowned locations to enjoy outdoor sports such as climbing, the West seems to get all the love. With that comes popularity, but with popularity comes problems. Just take a look at the shit shows that many of our national parks ...
NSSF Releases Data on Highest-Selling Guns of the Pandemic
When COVID-19 reared its ugly head in March 2020, it had a pretty profound effect on the gun industry. We immediately named it “Gun Salesman of the Year” as gun sales surged. The FBI reports a 24.7 percent year-over-year increase in NICS checks for ...
The Powerful Treatment That Could Help Heal Our Wounded Vets
A bed in white linens sits in the center of a wood floor, lit by soft daylight streaming through large windows. Outside is a still desert landscape pockmarked with scrub brush and cactus. A veteran is on the bed, tattooed, laying still as a ...
New Highlining Record Set in Yosemite
In a national park that’s world-famous for mind-bending feats of climbing skill, two brothers and their friend might have just topped the list of bonkers adventures in Yosemite with a 2,788-foot highline walk between two cliff faces. Moises and ...
‘The Comfort Crisis’: This Book Should Be Your Next Read
I pull the rifle’s trigger, an action that sends its striker pin into the round’s primer, igniting the powder and creating a violent release of energy that pushes a bullet 22 inches down the barrel at 1,772 miles an hour. The herd collectively ...
Oregon Bill Would Ban Hunting, Fishing, Trapping, and Animal Agriculture
Initiative Petition 13, or IP13, was filed in Oregon in November by a Portland animal-rights activist with almost 1,100 sponsorship signatures. In the latest development, if by July 8 supporters collect the 112,020 signatures required to move the ...
Backcountry Flyers: 6 Classic Bush Planes That Get Us Out There
Backcountry flight in a proper bush plane will make you wonder what the hell you’ve been doing with your life. From the first revolution of the propeller blade to the muffled thrum vibrating through your body as wilderness sprawls in every ...
Badlands of N. Dakota Made Roosevelt One of the Greatest US Presidents
On Sept. 7, 1883, Theodore Roosevelt, an up-and-coming politician with pronounced eyeglasses and a gregarious personality, stepped off a Northern Pacific Railway train headed westward to the Little Missouri settlement of the Dakota ...
Study Discovers This Deep-Sea Fish Lives to 100, Stays Pregnant for 5 Years
Head 500 to 800 feet into the ocean depths off the Comoro Islands near the East African coast and you might find an ancient species of fish that can grow as big as a man and live for a century. Nicknamed "the living fossil," coelacanth outlasted the ...
Strength and Power Assessments: Simple Tests to Gauge Your Levels
Athleticism is the foundation of a high-performing, resilient body and life. Strength and power construct the floor and walls of that foundation. If you want longevity, as well as access to all that your body is capable of, you need solid levels of ...
Sport Climbing To Make Its Olympic Debut in Tokyo
The mind-blowing, gravity-defying, superhuman athleticism of sport climbing will make its debut at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, and four of America's own are qualified to compete: Brooke Raboutou, Kyra ...
52,000 Fish Found Dead in Kansas City River
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is trying to figure out why 52,000 fish were found dead in Brush Creek just south of Kansas City. A total of 1,900 common carp, 240 silver carp, and 50,000 sunfish went belly-up throughout a ...
WATCH: Nature Is Metal
Everybody loves the pristine National Geographic documentaries that make the natural world look like an episode of Chef's Table. But if you're into all things wild and raw and you're not starting your day with a mainline shot of nature in its most ...
Ammo Famine: How the Current Shortage Started and When It Will End
Ammo has become both scarce and very expensive over the last year. But how did our current ammo famine start? And, more importantly, when we will again be able to buy all the ammunition and components we want at a reasonable price again? As I ...
A Father’s Day Lesson: When the Bass Aren’t Biting
"Never curse a sunfish," my dad would say. "It could be the only thing you catch." Even as a kid, I understood the sentiment. But when I was fishing for bass, I still thought it was a ration of shit. If I couldn’t manage a largemouth, no amount of ...
Knife Steel: How To Choose the Best Blade for You
Choosing a knife steel is one of those things that if you go down that rabbit hole and get super into it, you're certain to form bizarrely strong opinions and develop weird loyalty for certain alloys. A lot of people fumble around with different ...
Off Script: Free Range Q&A With Mark Pattison, NFL Receiver and Seven Summits Climber
In the span of 10 years, Mark Pattison has gone from the lowest point in his life to the top of the highest mountain on each of the seven continents — the Seven Summits. The former Los Angeles (now Las Vegas) Raiders and New Orleans Saints ...
Panfish Po’Boy: A Simple, Delicious Classic
If you’ve only caught one fish in your life, it was probably a panfish. Most anglers cut their teeth on bluegills, pumpkinseeds, and other little scrappers. While panfish aren’t known for being particularly challenging to catch, they're downright fun ...
WATCH: This Danish PSA Is the Best Viking Video in Years
The Danish Road Safety Council wants to remind everyone that badasses have worn helmets for thousands of years, and to do so, it produced the best Viking video to come out in ages. Don’t get me wrong — the first three seasons of Vikings ...
Deadwood: Fact vs. Fiction in HBO’s Epic Western
Deadwood is arguably the best Western TV show ever produced. It focuses on the early years of a real gold rush boomtown established from a prospecting camp in the Black Hills area of South Dakota in the 1870s. It was a lawless place, loosely ...
Simple Assessments To Test Your Mobility
The best way to get to point B is to actually know where point A is. If you don’t know where you currently stand, how could you ever know where you are relative to your destination? Easy answer — you can’t, homes. Fitness is like navigation. ...
The New ATF Worksheet on Pistol Braces and SBRs: What You Need To Know
Pistol braces are back in the ATF's crosshairs. After a bizarre series of events in fall 2020 involving a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) order to cease and desist production of the Q Honey Badger AR pistol and the ...
Lobster Diver Grabbed, Spit Out by Whale, And Other Close Encounters
“This is how you’re going to die,” thought Michael Packàrd, a commercial lobster diver out of Provincetown, Massachusetts. "In the mouth of a whale." Packàrd guessed that he was trapped for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale spit him out in a ...
Man Overboard: What To Do When Your Fishing Guide Is a Total Asshat
I didn’t care that we had paid him for a day of fishing. He needed to go for a fucking swim and I was this close to helping his ass off the boat. There’s a bottomless well of stories that fishing guides can tell about nightmare clients. My ...
Bowhunting Starter Kit: Everything You Need to Archery Hunt
So, you want to bowhunt. Welcome. It's rewarding, and in many ways, a life-changing pursuit. There is, however, a learning curve. There are several learning curves, actually, the first of which is gear, so using a bowhunting starter kit to make sure ...
Confessions of a First-Time Mountain Hunter
I thought I’d trained and prepared enough for this hunt. I was very wrong. Like many outdoorsmen, I’ve long entertained aspirations of hunting big game—elk, bear, sheep—in the mountainous backcountry. I envisioned loading up my pack with a week’s ...
How The 1st American to Summit Everest Trained Special Forces and Grew REI
In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to reach the 29,029-foot summit of Mount Everest. The renowned mountain climber also helped launch the outdoor equipment company REI into the multibillion-dollar business it is today. But before ...
Zuckerberg Shoots Bow, Throws Spear, and We Don’t Know WTF To Think
When not flagging your drunk uncle Larry’s anti-vax posts, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently shoots bows and throws spears. No, seriously. In his trademarked blue shirt and sunglasses, the fifth-richest man in the ...
