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    Home Invasion Defense 101

    Home Invasion Defense 101

    None of your preps will matter if someone invades your home and steals your stuff. That’s why it’s so important to think about home invasion defense.

    Food Calorie Chart

    Food Calorie Chart

    Are you growing high-calorie foods? If you want to get a substantial amount of calories from your garden, take a look at this food calorie chart.

    Surviving Doomsday Review

    Surviving Doomsday Book

    Are you really prepared to survive anything? Most preppers would have no trouble getting through a simple hurricane and a few days without power. But what about a few weeks without power? Or a few months? What if gangs of looters are going from house to house, taking whatever they want? What if your home has been flattened and you are forced to bug out of the city? Author Richard Duarte asks these questions along with many other tough questions in his book, Surviving Doomsday: A Guide for Surviving an Urban Disaster. He also provides the answers. Richard’s home was … Read More

    19 Random Urban Survival Tips

    19 Random Urban Survival Tips

    Here are some random urban survival tips. Some of them are tips that didn’t fit in with any of the posts I’ve made so far, but they’re all important.

    Prepping for Small Children

    Prepping for Small Children

    We can never be certain when the next major disaster will strike, but one thing we can be certain of: disasters do not strike when it’s convenient for us. As a parent, I wish I had the power to make sure there isn’t ever a disaster that disrupts my children’s lives, at least not until they’re old enough to handle themselves. But that’s not how it works. I need to do everything I can to make sure I’ll be able to take care of them if a disaster strikes while they’re still young. That means I’ve had to acquire many … Read More

    Urban Survival First Aid Kit

    Ready Store First Aid Kit

    In most disasters, whether it’s a hurricane, a terrorist attack, or a city full of looters, people get hurt. Survival first aid is essential in these situations, but very hard to come by due to overcrowded hospitals. After food, water and shelter, medical supplies and a good book on first aid should be your next priority. Fortunately, it isn’t very expensive to assemble your own first aid kit. Consider all the most likely disaster scenarios, how many people will be with you, their health, and what types of medical emergencies might occur. Now examine the list below and make adjustments … Read More

    How To Dehydrate Banana Slices

    How to Dehydrate Sliced Bananas

    If you’re new to dehydrating, you should try sliced bananas. They are very easy to dehydrate, they’re healthy, and they make a great snack. #urbansurvivalsite #dehydrate #dehydrating #bananas #foodstorage

    Survival Fitness

    Mark Sisson on Survival Fitness

    The older I get, the more concerned I am with survival fitness. I've only posted one other article on fitness, “Getting In Shape For TEOTWAWKI,” but I've learned a few things since them. Much of my learning is from The Primal BlueprintPrimal Blueprint. I highly recommend that book. It completely changed the way I eat and exercise and I've never felt better. Here are a few things I've learned.

    Stop Jogging

    Mark Sisson on Survival Fitness
    The Primal Blueprint author and his wife. They never go jogging.

    I know a lot of people will disagree with this, but long workouts like jogging are not the best way to exercise. In fact, they're probably one of the worst ways to exercise. Last year I went jogging three days a week so I would be able to complete a 10k run. Strangely, I only lost a few pounds during the months I spent training. I also noticed that even though I could jog for several miles, I still got winded when I ran up the stairs in my house.

    Believe it or not, long cardio workouts aren't very good for your heart. Yes, they make your heart more efficient, but they also reduce your heart's reserve capacity. In order to get more efficient, your heart actually gets smaller so it can go longer while using less energy. But what if you suddenly need to push your heart to the limit for a few minutes? It won't be able to handle it. This phenomenon is explained in detail in The Doctor's Heart Cure.

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