Fight or Flight Fitness

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Yesterday’s workout:

5 stair sprints of 5-6 floors, followed by an approximately 200 meter uphill sprint. 8 sets of push ups with a minute rest between sets.

Today’s workout suggestion:

Try sprints again - slow gradual buildup so your body gets use to them. Chin ups. One of the big advantages to these type of workouts are they do not take up much time.

Endurance - long flight:

In the past humans in many situations had to travel many miles by foot, to either hunt game or to obtain certain additional food sources. In fact remarkably, humans over a fairly short period traveled out of Africa to inhabit the entire land mass of the world.

In our modern world we travel everywhere by plane and car. Heck people will even drive two blocks to go to the gym.

There can be extreme situations which require long distance travel by foot. These aren’t your everyday situations - such as your plane has gone down in a remote area, you get lost skiing or hiking, a natural disaster of some sort. The point is do you have the ability to coverage many miles by foot? We are not talking about running a marathon. Running a marathon is a very controlled situation where you have to travel exactly 26.2 miles and people are lined up every few miles to hand you water, sports drinks, oranges, sports bars, even jelly to rub on your bits that are getting raw. In a flight or fight situation you are unlikely to be receiving handouts.

The question is can you travel 10, 20, 30, 50 miles or more with nothing but the proverbial shirt on your back? Sure by luck you might be in a situation where you have two liters of water to carry with you - or a stream you are following - but you might have no water and no streams - can you travel the distance? Can you survive? I am not necessarily talking about running, but just a good paced walk. There are some advantages to long distance walking compared to running which I will detail in later posts.

I will be outlining a practical training approach so you can increase your endurance (combined with the sprint training) that will teach your body to burn fat so it can handle long distance mileage with very little input of energy - basically you want to become a fat burner. And by teaching your body to be a better fat burner this will improve one the modern day health problems.

Tomorrow:

Tomorrow I will post about the science behind how sprint training is a very effective, and time efficient, manner of training not only for anerobic sprinting but also for general aerobic conditioning.

Tags: long distance travel

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