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Our bodies are an integral part of our preparedness journey. How do we best take care of them? How do we overcome our physical limitations? How can we get the most out of the body that God gave us? We discuss that in this blog category.
“Okay. Sit here?” I gestured to one of the weightlifting machines and took a seat. “And grab these handles….and just pull?” That seemed easy enough – and that time, it was. Was I doing something wrong because it was easy? Was any of this even going to make a difference? […]
I’m rather addicted to Instagram, and sometime in January this year – because of several IG posts – I became convinced that I should start weightlifting, so I messaged a friend who was very much into going to the gym and asked him to walk me through some exercises. He […]
Oh! You have to hear this story. The week after I started watching what I was eating, I went out and ran a 5K! NOT!! I have been sedentary for nearly all of my life since college. There were days when, as a stay-at-home mom, my pedometer said I was […]
Numbers don’t define who you are. They don’t. But when I weighed 324.6 pounds (yes, you read that right!), it might not have defined me, but it limited me. The effects of that number limited how far I could walk. It limited my sleep. It limited my physical ability to […]
It’s been … about three months since you’ve heard from me. Three Long Months. And I have a pretty good excuse. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on two projects that have consumed a huge part of my life. One of them started with a doctor’s appointment and […]
Does Physical Fitness Play a Role in Preparedness? I’ve had to bug out a total of three times. Living through a tornado hitting our home and through the Ferguson Riots gave me several opportunities to practice. One of the things that I learned from my experience is that bugging out rarely […]
