Survival Fitness

Catalog description

Survival Fitness explores the development and maintenance of physical fitness as a requisite for survival in a primitive setting. Students will explore ways to improve overall strength and conditioning through various in-class survival-based exercises, games, and activities such as tracking, fire starting, shelter building, hunting and gathering. Students will also learn fundamental fitness center-based exercises such as deadlifts, farmers carry, pull-ups, and pushing and pulling movements to further enhance the ability to complete survival tasks. Are you strong enough to survive? This course will answer that question.