The Outdoor Fitness Podcast You Didn’t Know You Needed

As we push through the summer days and get closer to fall hunting seasons, I’m starting to think about my goals. I’m not just thinking about hunting goals either, I’m thinking about fitness goals, family goals, and life goals. I’ve learned that hunting and the outdoors is a good vehicle for that. As these summer days pass by, it’s also important to find inspiration and education to help tackle those goals. I’ve found this in the Wild Strength Podcast, one of the newest podcasts in the Okayest Podcast Network. If you are looking for great conversations about hunting, fitness, and outdoor life then I suggest you give this podcast a try!

The podcast is hosted by Whitney Tramel, a Texas native who has since found her way out west. While Whitney is the host of an outdoor fitness podcast, she wasn’t born into the lifestyle. “I did not grow up hunting but I was always familiar with it as my dad and grandpa were hunters. Unfortunately, I never got to learn from them as they passed when I was young. As I got older, I was always intrigued by it and wanted to hunt but never knew how or who to talk to. I picked up a bow for the first time in 2020 and immediately started asking all of the folks in the bow shop questions. Shortly after I started hunting in Texas and have since packed up and moved out west to chase big game.” 

When passion is developed internally later in life, as the outdoors did with Whitney, it shines extra bright. Whitney utilizes this passion to educate, entertain, and inspire in her podcast. Despite being mostly self-taught in hunting, she doesn’t take all the credit as she is quick to mention the incredible people she has encountered along the way.

Why You Should Listen

The Wild Strength podcast is a great listen for anyone that has interests in western hunting or physical fitness. Whitney does a great job of marrying the two worlds and highlighting the overlapping relationships between the two. She touches on the topics of exercise science, hiking, backcountry fitness, and hunt training. She is able to provide well rounded, accurate takes on backcountry fitness considering she has a MS in exercise science, is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and a Tactical Strength and Conditioning Facilitator. She is also working on a PhD in stress physiology. 

“My education and career background is in strength and conditioning and I have been a strength coach for the tactical population for a while now. The idea of “Wild Strength” came from tying my passion for hunting and the outdoors (Wild) with my background in sport/strength and conditioning (Strength). I realized how I would train or prepare for a hunt was similar to how I would train the folks I worked with in the tactical field.”

Aside from being a very experienced and credentialed host, Whitney exhibits the curiosity and thirst for new knowledge that contributes to an ever-growing hunter. Making connections and learning is what being a hunter is all about. “The podcast allows me to sit and take an hour of someone’s time and get to know them a little bit more than what social media has to show. It’s also helped me personally because selfishly, I always have folks on who know more than me!”

As I stated earlier, this podcast hits on all the notes of education, entertainment, and humility in the outdoors, all while being a well-produced podcast. It’s apparent from the outside looking in that the podcast is crushing its goals. “I feel the podcast presents well to someone who had the courage to just get out there and do the damn thing. I talk a lot about my mistakes…I’m still very much learning, but I put myself out there anyway.” Hunting and life are about doing hard things, which this what this podcast represents. 

Whitney has a busy fall hunting season coming up and is ready to bring everyone the details in upcoming episodes and plans to have many new guests that present outside of the box conversations. She plans to do this all while still presenting that encouraging tone that she is known for. “I hope listeners learn something new that maybe they didn’t know before, or maybe that maybe someone just feel encouraged to and try something new.”

Go check out the Wild Strength Podcast in the Okayest Podcast network!

Will Bowen, Okayest Hunter Contributor