When's the last time you carried cans of water, crates of supplies, or (God forbid) another human up a hill? My guess is that most of you haven't done many of these things, and unfortunately all of them are very real tasks, which may have to be undertaken in a "TEOTWAWKI" scenario. As self-sufficient people/survivalists/preppers, we have a tendency to greatly overestimate our own physical capacity. What good is your BOB if you can't move with it efficiently and consistently? What good are knowledge and skills if you're exhausted or too broken to enact them? My hope is that this article will give people a reasonable starting point for building a base of physical fitness, one that is both applicable to a TEOTWAWKI scenario, and sustainable in their current every day lives.

Scope:

This article will address only the physical training side of fitness. Diet and nutrition are beyond its scope, and there are volumes of information freely available about those subjects to the curious reader. This article will not detail what physical training (if any) should be undertaken in a post-event world, as that is too highly individualized and circumstantial.