When the Emergency Broadcast comes over the radio, TV or you receive frantic calls from your friends, co-workers, loved ones, and it is for real this time. Will you be ready? Mentally? Is your gear in order? Is your bug out location stocked and ready to weather the storm?
This is the first post in a series of posts on “Survival Fitness”
How are you going to get there,
Do you have the physical stamina to evade invaders or a hostile force? WILL YOU BE READY PHYSICALLY? To fight or take flight for a sustained amount of time, regroup and fight another day and/or survive for a prolonged and indefinite amount of time?
SKIP AHEAD
What is Survival Fitness?
What is fitness and how do you apply the principles of fitness in a survival situation? One definition
For example, having to hike with your bug out bag to your “Get Out of Dodge” location, jumping over walls, carrying a load, pulling someone out of burning building and carrying them away from danger. The ability to be fit and apply fitness in a given situation requires some skills that can be practiced and developed.
These skills are called “The 10 General Physical Skills of Fitness” and they are as follows:
1. Cardiovascular Fitness
2. Stamina
3. Strength
4. Flexibility
5. Power
6. Speed
7. Agility
8. Coordination
9. Accuracy
10. Balance
As I mentioned, these skills can be developed and will improve the level of fitness. Practice makes perfect, right? Perfect practice makes PERFECT EXECUTION!!!
This is merely an introduction to “What is Survival Fitness?” and how fitness can be applied in a survival
In articles that will follow , I will expand upon the tenets of fitness, health, and fundamentals of a strong mind and body. I will help you develop the General Physical Skills that will increase your level of overall fitness. I encourage you to not only read and study the excellent information on SurvivalCache.com, but to visit www.crossfit.com for the workout of the day (as known as the WOD).
Your Survival Fitness starts today.
I will leave you with this….
“World-Class Fitness in 100 words”
Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels
Five or six days a week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. ROUTINE IS THE ENEMY! Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports. – by Coach Greg Glassman
Read “Making the Best of Basics” to make sure your family is prepared.
Stay Survival Fit,
Mark
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Photos courtesy of TBC Crossfit of San Antonio