Physical Preparedness

Exercise is extremely important especially if you're gonna have to hike some major mileage using the trusty old "footmobile".  You'll also want to be fit and fuel your body with the proper nutrients that it will need to endure and have tremendous stamina when you'll need to hike it to your bug-out fort.  Take into consideration all the preps that you'll have to carry and lug with you along the way, you'll need quite a bit of energy to take you to where you're heading to and you'll probably have no car by then.  When you think about it the United States is one of the unhealthiest nations around.  Seems obesity is rampant, diseases of every kind in just about everyone which is evident by all the medication that is prescribed annually to millions of people.  Our society is so fixated on quick fixes, fast foods, medications, sugar and fatty foods that really do the body no good at all.  I'm certainly aware of "moderation" but is everyone else?  Now, when you have an illness that needs medications that truely do not heal you but keep you only dependant upon them how is it that you will ever get better?  If ever SHTF tomorrow how many would survive and be able to physically run to the hills without killing over?  How would one continue to get medicine for diabetes?  And if you're obese and have not even tried to do some form of exercise will you be able to hike the miles that one needs to GOOD?  It will be quite a challenge and if you're out of shape you just won't make it because your body will probably revolt and go into shock because of the abrupt nature it has to adapt to in an instance.

Having exercised from my early twenty's physical fitness comes naturally for me.  I have incorporated it into my life for years and continue to do so.  I pay close attention to what the body needs by eating lots of fruits and vegetables and watching all sugar and salt intake every step of the way.  I drink more water than anything else out there on the market because I know everything else is nothing but pure sugar and I don't need to be another diabetic statistic.  I gave up drinking sodas almost twenty years ago cause I don't need it.  My sugar intake is minimal relying heavily on sugar provided by the fruits that I do eat.  Although I'll have an ocassional candy bar or bubble gum here and there but nothing where I'll gorge myself into oblivion.  Put it this way, I can buy a carton of ice cream and let it sit in my freezer for the longest time to only find out when I do want to eat it it's all gone because the hubby ate it all over the short duration that I did have it in the freezer becasue he ate it.  Salt has a tendency to make you thirsty and sugar seemingly makes you want to eat something salty.  I do drink tons of herbal teas in the mornings and evenings, I also love the loose tea's as well and they are all non-sugar teas that's the only way that I'll drink it.  Arizona tea's all have sugar in them.
There's another drink that I enjoy though it's the Sambazon drinks, it's really yummy with lots of acai berries which are really healthy for you.  I drink a bottle of this everyday sometimes two in a day it's that good I even make smoothies with it, so good!  It's like a gatorade for me except without the unhealthy sugar involved.

Keeping fit and healthy as best as possible will ultimately take you a great distance especially if you need to travel by foot up and down hills and mountains and long distances which you'll never know how far you may have to go or travel to get to safety in a hurry and if you can run it's a plus but you need to have endurance and stamina on your side as well.  My advice would be to condition yourself physically and prepare your body top to bottom.  Don't forget to invest in a good pair of shoes or several pairs of shoes, take care of your feet because they will take you where you will need to go.  Every night my feet gets the spa treatment in my tub from myself by way of foot scrubbing, massaging and brushing and trimming of the nails.  My feet takes me everywhere and I need to take care of it properly because if ever the time will arise for me to sprint, run or walk I will know that I conditioned and prepared it for that moment and beyond and everything else physically will align and fall into place allowing me to be fully prepared physically with the endurance and stamina that I have taken the time to condition myself for.  The rest of my body gets a MAJOR workout at the place where I work and I just love the thought of working out and getting paid for it. 

 

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