
there are many prepper out there who talk all the time about stocking up on food, guns, ammo, supplies, medical equipment, hunting items and so forth. They show you how to cook, clean, can, cultivate, garden, hunt, fish, and a whole slew of other topics. But your first line of defense is yourself and your body. If you are not physically able to sustain in a SHTF scenario, then all of those preps are going to do you no good. We have to think about our bodies and our health to make sure that we are capable of surviving in difficult times. And where many of us think we could handle it, when put to the real test, we may find out that we are not in the shape we need to be in.
If we face an economic collapse or a crisis in the economy and gas prices spike, could you walk 10 or 20 miles to town to get the food you need to survive? If your home was invaded, are you strong enough physically to engage in hand to hand combat? If you had to get out and chop wood for firewood as your only heat source, could you do that and haul it by hand? If you lose electricity and have to go your own home repairs with manual tools because you've lost the use of your power tools, would you have the stamina needed to do that?
These are areas that i think that many preppers aren't thinking about. And it should be one of the very first things we consider. If we've allowed ourselves to become fat and lazy, then no amount of prepping is going to help us when the physical demands of an end of the world scenario presents itself to us.