exercise post shtf

Your absolutely right. You have to maintain your endurance levels in case something does go to S***.

At my BOL we have some second hand exercise equipment. Believe it or not I actually have a bowflex up there that I found in a dumpster. Just missing a few parts, that were easily ordered off the net. Anyways back on subject.

You should have patrols going in your area that will keep you burning calories, but just remember the more calories you burn the more you will have to replace. Not an issue if you have a decent food stock.

We use wood to heat (mostly) so chopping wood is a great way to stay in shape. Is noise a concern? Then your firewood has to be cut by handsaw instead of chainsaw, and or chopped my axe. Tending to the garden also keeps you lean, depending on the chore. Are you know digging fighting positions in case things really go bad? That's a big calorie burner right there when your digging a hole five foot deep, five feet long, and three foot wide, through dirt, rocks, and or clay.

Do you have to haul in water form a nearby stream if the grid goes down? Two five gallon buckets of water, hauled over 50-100yards especially up hill can be a real a** kicker.

What I am saying is there is allot of chores you will have to accomplish if S really does hit the F. I think your cardio is going to suffer some. Its not like running three four five miles is going to be very feasible if you have to be armed most of the time. Not to mention if you have to be fighting ready. If you have to be fighting ready at all times then you don't want to totally exhaust yourself right before a firefight.

Hope this helps.

Having grew up on a farm where we still used a wood burning stove to heat the house and cook on, with a garden and live stock to be tended too its a lot of work. Two a Days during high school foot ball were a joke to me!

Chopping up several cords of wood with a Ax and Saw aint no joke and quiet a work out. Tilling a Garden is a back breaking task that will make you feel like an old man quick and help you discover muscles you didnt know you had! Digging fence post holes aint fun either. When we got a tractor and a auger I thought I died and went to heaven. Humping bales of hay a couple of times a year was a back killer too. Pulling a couple out of the barn a week during the winter wasnt a whole lot easier either. I probably did more work in the hour before breakfast than most other teens in high school did all week. By the time summer got here I was busy picking through bushel baskets of Green Beans and shelling Peas after sun down while watching TV before bed. Spent the better part of the day in the kitchen with Mom canning forever begin...I still have nightmares when I see a canning jar!

Now once the SHTF, and you cant go to the grocery store and buy your food, and you cant just write a check for the electricity and gas, hump your water further than across the store parking lot to your vehicle, I think your going to find that you get enough activity in during the day that not only will you not really have any time to work out, you will be too wore out and beat down to work out.

There is a reason for the saying..."A cowboys work is just never done". Once the SHTF, I suspect you will be able to relate a lot more to that than you do now.