Fit for the Fight

Here’s a newsflash for you: Being in shape is only important for your general health. Being physical ready for combat is a whole other ball of wax. If you have a family, or friends, or are part of a community, or just enjoy living, you have a moral obligation to those to whom you owe your loyalty, to quit being a pussy, and start doing PT. I don’t give two shits if you are 14 or 40; whether you’re a fat lump of shit who’s never done a lick of physical exercise in your life, or you’re a former collegiate athlete turned CPA who just doesn’t “have the time” to do PT anymore. You’re either serious about being able to protect your life, your family, and your community, or you’re full of shit. It’s really that simple.

-John Mosby, Mountain Guerrilla

The main reason I decided to start training was to be able to get in good enough shape to be able to fight to protect my family.  Fight my own body breaking down, fight the weather, fight a bad guy, whatever.  I find myself constantly reading and learning.  Finding new ideas to implement into my training.  I've recently been reading about training for survival situations after some sort of societal collapse.  Not sure what type of collapse or that that even matters really, but just looking at society, it seems like something is inevitable.  That being said, along with continuing to strength training and common conditioning work, I've decided to start incorporating weekly ruck marches.

I've read a lot of stuff from survival minded guys who really stress the physical training aspect of survivalist planning.  Guys like John Mosby and Max Velocity really stress being fit enough to survive.  Even guys like Major Dick Winters (Band of Brothers) talked about how his physical fitness helped him endure WWII.  Mosby and Velocity talk about ruck marches and how they are applicable so I figured I'd mix them in.  I am trying to be generally prepared.  I don't want to be a meat head who can bench 400lbs but can't walk 2 miles nor some weak marathoner who can run 26 miles put can't do 5 pull ups.

As I read and learn, I adapt my training plan.  Strength and conditioning in harmony.  I am trying to be harder to kill.  There is no single right way, so if I think something is useful I will try it.  I am trying to improve myself by 1% every day.  Better today, that yesterday.  Better tomorrow than today.  Read heavy shit, lift heavy shit.

Civilized the mind, make savage the body.

Ruck March

Distance	Time	Weight
2.2 miles	31:59	30lbs