Hacking the body...paleo skills

Fitness in today's chaotic world
 
This post is just a series of thoughts, bullet points so that I can get some ideas down for something that I might develop further....

• We can hack the body with tricks to build muscle, strength and even endurance
• This can be done with minimal investment in time
• HIT type training, even with bodyweight and static contractions
• HIIT intervals, sprints to develop VO2 max and endurance
• That gives you capacity, potential
•  BUT WHAT IS THE POINT?
• We are facing a strange and challenging world that seems to be getting more chaotic and unpredicatable
• natural disaster
• riot
• economic decline
• peak oil.....
• To survive in such a world you need not only capacity but also relevant skills.  You can be strong.....but that is only useful up to a point
• What skills do you need?  What will keep you alive in such a world?
• The paleo meme -  look at the past to be fit for the future.
• Paleo is not just diet
• Hunter Gatherer fitness
• We can use modern technology to build the capacity.....Safely.....
• What skills are needed?
• Fitness is specific - for tasks....
• You can hack strength, endurance....but are you "fit" if you can't
• walk well
• sprint
• carry
• climb
• crawl
• jump
• fight
• Don't neglect the skills......(even in pieces I am writing for a backpacking magazine just now I am stressing the skill of walking)
• Can you hack the skills? 
• learn to walk, sprint, crawl, carry, climb and defend yourself

Key idea - Body hacking like in Ferris' 4 Hour Body is short-sighted if it doesn't produce real world skills.  The world is falling apart or at least changing radically.  Strength and conditioning will take you so far but without skills you will have capacity....and health.....but not useful ability.  Learn to walk, sprint, carry, climb, fight and think to survive. (MovNat)