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[Scythe13]

Haha, I bet you've all been waiting for me to rant and rave about how important fitness is. Well, here goes.

Highlander is spot on about the Falklands. If you look at the majority of SAS soldiers, they come from outdoors backgrounds. Lots of farming style outdoor strength, not the fitness-gym-physique style. Those will the little extra fat lasted longest in the cold conditions. Very true. But those guys were still VERY FIT. They were only a little fatter, and slightly less fit. They were not sporting bulges of blubber like a small whale. They could still lift a big pack, shift quickly with it, and have energy left over. They were not sat down, behind the laptop, all day, lazy buggers!!! If you got those guys and compared them to the majority of people, they would trump them, fitness-wise.

So, even though taking fitness to a ridiculous extreme, is not good for your health. However, having a GOOD LEVEL of fitness is important.

Consider this, numerous studies have shown that a better level of fitness helps to cope with stress, in the work place, and in life and death situations!!! I think TEOTWAWKI will be at least a mildly stressful situation!!! Low fitness just means your ability to cope with stress, change, mental and emotional challenges, is not at the level it could be at.

Increasing your fitness isn't everything, but damn....it greatly increases your chances of surviving a situation much more than if you had no fitness!!!