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It can involve any situation mutant aliens or stranded on a desert island or surviving people trying to kill you.

I’m looking for some good fictional survivalism books. Survivalism is the act of being alone in a world/time/place foreign to you or under certain circumstances where you alone must do whatever it takes to survive.

A numbers of books/films that include acts of survivalism are any zombie film/book, red dawn and I am legend.

Do you know any more? Books that is.

any good “how to” websites that deal primarily with these subjects?

Looking for a site that is very descriptive and helpful on the topic of “survival”?

Then you’ll need to be more specific in your search as to what you’re trying to survive.  Is it a hurricane?  flood?  earthquake? terrorist attack?

Some great general sites are:

This one of course.

www.fema.gov

prepared.gov

Enjoy!

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Surviving an emergency has nothing to do with luck.  In fact, if luck plays any part at all, it’s probably too small for most people to actually benefit from.  The best way to survive an emergency â?? any emergency â?? is to be prepared, aware and know what to do.  Having the right resources is also advantageous, particularly if these are exactly what you need to survive.  If you’re planning on buying a survival kit or putting one together yourself, here are the types of emergency food you should consider:

Dehydrated food
Dehydrated food is excellent as emergency food for your survival kit because they come in small, compact portions.  They are convenient to pack and easy to prepare.  You will need to heat them up with water, though.  They are a good choice as part of your survival kit if you are ever in an emergency situation where you need warm food.

Dehydrated food includes meat, vegetables, fruits and flavored meals.  Information on the number of calories included in a serving is usually included, so pack enough to meet your most basic calorie needs on a per day basis.

Canned food
Do not use raw food that still needs to be cooked for your survival kit.  Emergency food has to be convenient to store, prepare and eat.  Besides, raw food will rot.  Canned food is a better choice for emergency food because they can keep for several months to a few years.  

Canned food also provides plenty of choices â?? meat, fish, fruits and vegetables.  They can also be eaten straight out of the container.  Probably the only preparation you might have to do is to heat them for more comfort and flavor.

Consider packed meals as well.  Not only do they keep well, they are also very flavorful.  They come in single serves which make it easy to keep track of the number of meals you have.  Make sure to choose those that can be stored outside the freezer.  If the emergency food requires freezing, make sure you have the facility to do this.

Drink
Water is the best choice for all emergency situations and as such, should be a major component of your survival kit.  Regardless of the season or location, the ideal amount of water you should pack should be 1 gallon for each person per day.  If you’re storing emergency food at home, consider keeping enough to supply your need for fluids for at least 10 to 14 days.

Other excellent choices for emergency food for your survival kit are drink mixes, particularly the ready-to-drink or pre-mixed varieties.  Drink mixes not only contain pleasant flavoring (quite helpful in stressful situations such as emergencies), there are many made available in the market that are formulated with vitamins and minerals.  These drink mixes are especially helpful in combating the first signs of dehydration and can replenish important nutrients that may be lost due to the lack of proper food.

A disadvantage to drink mixes is that they cannot be used to cook food.  Your priority should be pure water and then simply supplement what you have with drink mixes.  If you’re unsure about the purity of the water you’ve stored in quite a while, keep a bottle of water purification tablets.  You can treat the water with these to ensure its safety.

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Physically train to satisfy the survival of the fittest instinct… and develop a body that performs as good as it looks.

Most people, at some point in there lives, decide that their bodies, and their capabilities to perform tasks with those bodies, are lacking… and they seek to rectify this through physical training.

This “knowledge” that they are not the best they can be, and that they better do something about it, does not stem just from mass media propaganda… but it comes from someplace deep down inside.

This is the survival of the fittest instinct.

To have the physical abilities to survive, flourish and excel in our natural environment, and the lean, hard and muscular body that exemplifies these abilities, is not a vain, selfish desire… but one of the most basic, primal instincts that we all share.

Instinctually we all know that the quality of our lives is governed by the law of survival of the fittest.

Why We Are Naturally, Instinctually Drawn to Physical Training

We have all heard of Darwin’s Survival of the Fittest… where the best suited for survival in their natural environment will flourish and pass their good traits on to future generations.

Well, this process of natural selection finally paid off…

Around 100,000 years ago, humans reached their evolutionary peak… evolutionarily speaking, humans were equipped with all the biological tools necessary for survival in the natural environment.

Our bodies reached a point where it could not only survive in a cruel, harsh and demanding environment… but flourish in it.

At some point along human history, human intelligence intervened and we learned how to control our environment.

Our bodies and the biological mechanisms that allowed us to survive for thousands of years remained unchanged… while the environment in which we lived and our way of life changed dramatically.

Our body does not want to give up those hard earned evolutionary gains, and even though our environment is less demanding… it stubbornly remains prepared for the worst.

Ironically, those very same survival traits when placed in a soft, undemanding environment of little physical activity and paired with poor nutritional habits and overabundance often lead to undesirable physical traits, poor health and lowered survival ability.

We are our best, healthiest and happiest when we live in an environment that challenges us regularly, forcing our bodies to adapt in a positive manner to overcome those challenges easier in the future.

Instinctually we “know” this… and that is why we are drawn to physical training.

The survival of the fittest instinct is always present, haunting the deepest reaches of our mind… spurring us on to improve the physical abilities necessary for survival.

Physical Training The Way It Was Meant To Be

As the stresses that forced us to improve became less and less in our natural environment… our daily lives had to be augmented with physical training if we were to continue to improve and become the best we could be.

Listening to the survival of the fittest instinct and to make up for the lack of improvement instigating stresses in our daily lives… adding physical training as a part of our lifestyle became necessary if we were to remain healthy and fit for survival.

Physical training was used to continue improving as humans when the natural stimulus diminished, instigate bodily changes to survive, flourish and excel in the natural environment and create physical abilities that would enable us to meet the challenges of life with excellence.

Physical training was not about looks… but the ability to perform well under a varied, and unpredictable circumstances.

And the outcome of superior performance was not a petty prize… but life itself.

Using physical training to satisfy the survival of the fittest instinct… is the way physical training was meant to be.

From this point on, proper physical training that satisfies the survival of the fittest instinct will be referred to as… Optimum Physical Training.

Optimum Physical Training for Performance Improvement…
Not Appearance

Optimum Physical Training works with your bodies natural instinct to improve, flourish and excel in its natural environment and develop physical abilities that will allow you to meet the varied and unpredictable challenges of life with excellence… It is not only a means to look better in your T-shirt or swim suit.

It is easy to see how the two became confused.

On some subconscious level, we know that being suited for the environment is positive… and that being unsuited for the environment is negative.

We also know… the traits which we attribute to being fit manifest themselves in outward appearances.

We are naturally drawn to people that have those outward appearances… and aspire to obtain them ourselves.

People that have developed the abilities to survive, flourish and excel in the natural environment, through either superior genetics or proper physical training, normally have the hard, lean and muscular body that exemplifies these traits.

Unfortunately, focusing on appearance only goes against the survival of the fittest instinct that leads to proper physical training.

Achieving the “look” of physical fitness through surgery, chemical manipulation or inferior physical training and nutrition techniques does not satisfy the survival of the fittest instinct.

Instinctually Creating Your Best Body

An interesting thing happens when you physically train for function instead of form… you instinctually create your best body.

The bodily changes that take place due to proper physical training satisfy the survival of the fittest instinct, automatically becoming attractive and desirable… regardless of what the “pop” fitness culture says.

By creating your best body through proper physical training, you simultaneously create the image of the best body.

The more positive bodily changes that occur, the better your ability to perform and the more you satisfy the survival of the fittest instinct… the better you feel, the more confident you become and the more attractive and desirable you are to yourself and others.

Creating a body that performs as good as it looks through optimum physical training naturally satisfies the survival of the fittest instinct… leading to a primal sense of well being unmatched by “appearance” training alone.

Strive to satisfy the survival of the fittest instinct, partake in physical training the way it was meant to be and make it a part of your lifestyle… and you will be rewarded with the physical abilities to meet the challenges of sport, work and life with excellence and the body that exemplifies those abilities.