How To Live Forever Part 4: Fit For Combat
As part of our ongoing counterintuitive life-extension series, we’re looking at freelance combat embed J.D. Johannes’ Fit for Combat: When Fitness is a Matter of Life or Death.
Great workout concept. Dustjacket notes via Amazon:
Fit for Combat is not the typical workout book telling you to do this exercise, or eat this but not that. It is the explanation of the systematic way to find the workouts and eating plan that will help you achieve your goals and fit your lifestyle. Because everyone’s metabolism is a little different, your training and eating need to be adapted for you. Using the author’s personal experience of losing 40 pounds of fat, Fit for Combat guides you step-by-step through a system to find the diet and workout that is perfect for you.
I’d add that the only thing healthier than preparing for combat is combat itself. You will shed pounds. Gets rid of middle-aged spread like nothing else. I lost about 20, and never felt better.* A buddy of mine lost 50, along with his hypertension and type II diabetes. The smoking might be an issue for those with a weakness for tobacco, but when you might get your head blown off in five minutes, who cares?
Dr. Helen has a quick review, notes walkaway message, “if your current system of diet and exercise is not getting you where you want to go, you have to change it, and that change is hard.” Nod to Instapundit.
Previously in the “How to Live Forever” series:
How to Live Forever Part 3 Israeli research finding: Advanced geezerdom no bar to exercise’s life-extending benefits.
How To Live Forever Part 2 The Beer Workout. Drink and be healthy.
Old? Fat? Feeling Death’s Icy Chill Down Your Neck? How To Live Forever Part 1, the Crittenden Workout for Middle-Aged Fat Bastards.
(I got my five miles in today, howbout you? For those not familiar with the regimen, it isn’t so much about living forever, though that’s good too if you can pull it off. It’s about making life worth living forever, not giving a damn whether you do or not, and getting the most out of however much you get.
That reminds me. I need to start working on the next instalment in the series: How To Live Forever Part 5: Life’s Horizontal Tango. Screw death. Eff your way to immortality.)
* Physical fitness aside, the combination of adrenaline and acceptance of fate can be a transcendental and cleansing experience, but as a mental health exercise may not be for everybody. Speaking of mental health, fitness-freak war junkies will be interested in Dexter Filkins’ program for not going crazy in Iraq. The Forever War is not only the premier war memoir of our time, on a par with Michael Herr’s Dispatches, it also details jogging in wartorn downtown Baghdad, and running like a mofo through wartorn downtown Fallujah.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:27 am Comments (0) on Thursday, October 1, 2009
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