What have you done today to improve your physical preparedness?

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myright

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Alright fellas - We all know that we need to focus on the right gear and how to use the right gear as well being mentally prepared for things we may get ourselves into or what me may be thrown into and we all work towards that level of preparedness. (alright that's the world's longest runon)

So.....

What have you done TODAY to prepare yourselves PHYSICALLY?

Ever since Jake posted that contest to get in shape I've been really reeling in my diet and focusing on eating clean as well as staying on track at the gym. I feel AWESOME now and challenge myself to do something every day that will confuse my body and challenge it, in turn challenging my mind.

Today - I took myright jr. (19 mos now) and entered in a 5k in my town. I've got a decent jogging stroller and was a bit nervous as to how well I'd be able to do since I never tried to run one with him before. I finished it in a few seconds over 30 minutes. While I won't be setting any records with that time, I'm very pleased with it. I'm not a distance runner by any means so I had a blast and now feel great. I've got a blister on each foot from these new shoes - I'm going to have to get professionally fitted because I can't find a shoe that doesn't give me blisters on my instep.

What have you done today?
 
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Walked 3 miles w backpack, done 200 pushups, 200 butterfly crunches. Diet is reeled in already. Cardio is key.
 
I ate some extra food so I could replenish my fat stores for an emergency. :(
 
I feel a hell of a lot better since I quit smoking. I gained the weight I wanted, and even started excercising again!!

I also practice alot of skills any chance I get,; so I am confident, but not over confident in my abilities.
 
Tony congrats on quitting brother.

I lifted weights this AM and went for a Run. Down 25lbs since Jan 1st. Im as fit as I was in the Army now, and leaner then Ive been in 5 years after over a year of hard work, with a shitty stretch during the Holidays. Wanna drop another 20lbs or so to race bikes this year.

I also cleaned out the storm shelter and put 2 cases of MREs in, and replaced the water store. Then I sharpened my knife with my new Fallkniven stone. Been a good day so far.
 
j williams said:
Tony congrats on quitting brother.

I lifted weights this AM and went for a Run. Down 25lbs since Jan 1st. Im as fit as I was in the Army now, and leaner then Ive been in 5 years after over a year of hard work, with a shitty stretch during the Holidays. Wanna drop another 20lbs or so to race bikes this year.

I also cleaned out the storm shelter and put 2 cases of MREs in, and replaced the water store. Then I sharpened my knife with my new Fallkniven stone. Been a good day so far.
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That's a productive day, brother. I NEED to get out on my bike.

I'm with ya - this is the best shape I've been in since the AF. And before any of ya'll bust my stones about being in shape and the AF in the same sentence I was a Security Force troop so we were a little different ;)
 
Stretch and take my meds. It has enabled me to get back outdoors, lose weight and gain a little more mileage on a high mileage body.
 
Today, I'm mostly trying to heal up from a lot of hiking and climbing last week, and recover enough to go do some bouldering up on flagstaff mountain. I forgot to wear my iniji toe socks for a 15 mile hike on Thursday, and the blisters are still healing.


hiking without toe socks just doesn't work for me, unless I slather on some body glide. Something about my jacked up feet makes them blister like crazy. They are probably deformed from being crammed into too-small climbing shoes too often.
 
Today, I'm going paintballing, woodsball for a few hours, definitely good exercise.
 
I am currently conditioning for a 5 day AT hike the the last week of April.
Usually hike locally with my weighted backpack.
Just registered for a 5K run.
Today I am going to run.
Have lost 29 pounds since last March.
 
Skimo said:
Today, I'm going paintballing, woodsball for a few hours, definitely good exercise.
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I've only been paintballing once, but it was INSANELY fun and an amazing workout. My quads were sore for a week after from running around in a crouch ALL day. I should get out again and try it out again.
 
I drank some creatine does that count? I do plan on working out later today, got a ball game tomorrow.
 
Most days I walk for 1 hour covering 6km - before I started that I was horribly unfit, since I started I have brought my belt in by 2 notches and feel much better. The walk incorporates a couple of good steep uphill sections - I can feel the leg muscles working hard on those and it gets the cardiovascular system working well.

Every few years I have to buy a new pair of shoes, otherwise it is pretty cheap exercise.
 
Just got done with a 19.5 mile run.
Im actually training for a long run in October.
I have to start lifting weights. I have very little
upper body strength.
 
Push-ups, pull-ups, dips, back squats, 30 min on the stationary bike, and clean eating all day.

Beer later.
 
35 years old with a bad back (L5-S1 disk)... I went to work for some safety training and then cleaned the house.

I have lost about 15lbs this year... the same weight I put on when I blew out my disk.

I'm hoping for a few short day hikes this year... maybe a float trip. We will have to see what the back says I can do.

Ski
 
card games are good, assign a certain cal (pyramid pushups, crunches, pullups, squats, fludder kicks etc etc etc) to each suit and do the face value of the card when you flip it over... great way to get in a good motivational group workout. if you're in decent shape do double the face value. Takes me about 25 minutes to go through an entire hand by myself and I feel good and whiped when I am done, usually there's a pool of sweat that mirrors my shadow underneath me. I have osteoartheritis in both hips and messed up knees but I still put on 15-20 miles a day average hiking.
 
I have started to incorporate many different exercises in at the gym and now search out opportunities to do real world exercise such as today moving 7 yards of dirt around and eventually under a deck. I have lifted weights for the last 20 years, done all sorts of martial arts, boxing Golden Gloves, all the way to a half marathon this fall in 1:59 but nothing, and I mean nothing, prepares you like real world stuff. Heaving cement around, spreading mulch, hammering nails, carrying lumber, digging ditches, moving bricks around, etc etc etc are all just unreal exercises. I will be more sore from spreading that sand around than my entire week in the gym, and I do a pretty good job of beating myself up in the gym.

Exercise, once you get past the fundamentals, is an incredibly personal experience. What works for one person (again, getting past the simple fundamentals) makes another cringe. I love getting out there with my pack loaded up to the brim and hiking all around, making camp, bending this way/that way, moving large limbs around/deadlifts....all that stuff because in a survival situation I do not expect to spend much time in the squat rack!!!
 
fugawee said:
I have to start lifting weights. I have very little
upper body strength.
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My problem is the exact opposite - I've got loads of upper body strength from rock climbing, and very little cardiovascular endurance. Climbing burns a massive number of calories, but it's a slow, methodical type of movement, so doesn't tend to get my heart rate way up, unless I'm pushing incredibly hard, and the tendons just can't hold up to that kind of pushing for very long.

I can probably climb a mile vertically faster than I could run it horizontally :p
 
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