E169: Strength and Conditioning for Preppers
In this episode we sit down with Greg Gottfried. He's a strength
and conditioning coach, and fitness podcast host, who's going to
pump you up for the apocalypse. So put on your 80s sweatband. We're
going to lift heavy.
Strength Training Topics Discussed:

Who is Greg Gottfried?
Why should preppers care about physical fitness?
Why do you prefer lifting heavy over cardio?
What do people normally get wrong with their exercise
regiments?
How can people with disabilities become mobile or even
physically fit again?
What do people most often get wrong with their nutrition?
How do you prep, store food, and ensure that your stores are of
the best nutritional value?
Does sleep and rest play a big role in fitness?
Does physical fitness purely mean pushing and pulling
weights?
How much can be done with simple body weight exercises?
How important is having a trainer or coach?
How can unable to afford a trainer or coach get good
information about physical fitness and ensure they're not going to
injure themselves?
If a friend or family member was asking for advice on a
trainer. Let's say for whatever reason you couldn't work with them.
What advice would you give?

Quick Takeaways from this episode:
How is Greg Gottfried? [...] I'm a strength and
conditioning coach. I'm also a track and field throws coach. [...]
I also teach CPR and First Aid. I'm a member of my local CERT. And
just recently got my HAM license.
Do you consider yourself a prepper?
Absolutely! And I haven't been my whole life. Hurricane Katrina
is what flipped the switch for me. Seeing how helpless people were
and the lawlessness... just the devastation really forced me to be
honest with what situation my family was in. [...] Since Katrina,
I've really gone full bore to make sure my family is safe and
prepared.
Did watching the aftermath of Katrina make you think,
"my G-d, what if this happen to my family?"
Yeah! Like I said, it was like a light switch for me. [...] It
was like a cartoon lightbulb going off. I was sitting in a town
house and we two shared walls. And I was thinking we don't have any
extra food. We don't have any water. And my shotguns are stored at
my parents house. What the hell do we do?
Portland is not a bastion of firearms love and
affection. How does that work for you in your area? And is
preparedness looked at as being weird in your area?
Guns are a hot topic here. And we're not exactly the most
welcoming of firearms. [...] It's not something I talked about a
lot before I got into all of this, but believe it or not they were
all closet preppers too.
It always surprises me how there are more people into
guns and prepping than most people think. It just takes opening up
a little bit, often.
Where does preparedness, physical fitness, and nutrition
intersect for you?
[...] Like I mentioned before, I'm a member of my local CERT and
First Aid. I'm a member at the local gun club also. And I can't
help but notice how terrible shape people are in. [...] Or the
things they're prepping are horrible foods. And it's the thing I
like to do: help people fill in those gaps. So when I'm talking to
someone about nutrition... I'll bring up, "Well now that you have
all these healthy foods, what if we get snowed in? Do you have
acces to more foods like this?" Or when I'm talking to people about
compressions, it's like... do you think you can maintain chest
compressions for 15 minutes before an ambulance shows up? Or can
you get that 300 pound vicim out of harms way?
I just notice a lot of people are not physically fit. And they
call themselves preppers. It kind of gets under my skin. If you're
not ready for life right now, how are you going to be ready when a
catastrophe hits.
Are we going to talk about becoming a gym rat today:
making working out like a part time job? How deep are we going to
go here?
It can be really simple. What's important is that we can move
through a full range of motions... in compound movements, like a
squat