ZombieFit classes- can they help you survive the coming zombie apocalypse?

[bijou]

Ever feel like you’re surrounded by zombies with all the repetitive, boring exercise options available at the gym?

An exercise program
in Chicago takes the whole internet zombie fetishism thing a step further, with a more compelling twist on fitness than elliptical machines and treadmills. It’s marketed as a way to keep fit for a zombie apocalypse, and the Chicago Tribune spoke to the course’s creator Rich Gatz about the almost viral (ha!) popularity of the program:

    And so, two nights a week in a gymnastics studio in St. Charles, five to a dozen people gather to run, jump, climb and vault up, over and around obstacles that stand in for the features of a city in the grip of a zombie infestation. They also undergo strength and conditioning training because zombies are relentless.

    There are no actual zombies or zombie stand-ins, though Gatz says they are invoked for inspiration. A precision jump, for example, requires participants to land in an exact location, much as they would have to do if fleeing a zombie from rooftop to rooftop.

    “You’ve got to land that, or the zombies are going to get you,” Gatz tells students.

Indeed. The program has a website where you can learn about the program more, and it expounds on the necessity of physical fitness if you don’t want to be zombie food: ...

http://www.inquisitr.com/77306/zombiefit/

[Celtic Rose]

This sounds awesome 

[bijou]

This sounds awesome 

It's essential training for the modern woman (and man).