Safari Fitness Requirements in Africa? How to hunt your way to health and fitness

My walking goal is 1,000 miles a year as well, I do my walking instead of eating lunch, as of now I walk about a 15 minute mile, I live at sea level and would have to travel a pretty good distance to find a hill to walk up. I’ve been doing this since 2017 and have averaged about 1,200 miles a year. I always carry a rifle during deer season .375 Ruger Alaskan or a pack with weights in it out of season.

I’m lucky to be able
To carry a rifle year round. A five mile jump over the hill in the morning keeps you ready to hunt.
 
I use a scale regularly. It helps to keep me honest about how much I eat. I’ve noticed that my caloric needs have decreased as I get older. Exercise is about being in shape for the person I want to be next year, not just the person I want to be today.
Running works for me. I am a little more flexible about regular running now, if I do a big work weekend with heavy labor, I give myself permission to miss a day of running.

The better shape one can be in, the more one can enjoy any hunt. It is easier to manage heat stress when in good shape. It is also easier to shoot well after a complicated stalk.
 
I turn 73 this year (God be willing) and I don't consider myself to be any spring chicken or Hercules. But I think that I'm not faring too poorly.
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My father turned 94 last Friday, God Bless. He is still very actively hunting snipe in the local paddy fields behind our family home.
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So I think that you'll be just fine. Learn to take good care of your health when you're young. If you have any vices such as excessive liquor or tobacco consumption, then practice self restraint. Otherwise, it'll come back to haunt you in your later years.

I eat everything but in moderation (I only consume fried food once a week), walk for one hour every morning & then swim for another hour every morning. I'm no health fitness guru, but it works well for me (so far). Staying in regular physical activity is vital for people of all ages (but esp. for those who are our age). The day you no longer stay physically active, is the day that old age begins to catch up to you.
 
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Tell me about this liver cleanse and Kidney cleanse.
The liver therapy is not a single thing but a full suite of lifestyle changes that combine to reset your liver function. The liver in the only major organ that can regenerate to a degree. The liver is a filter that captures toxins in the body so they can be eliminated thru the urine and bowels. It gets a workout in modern life. Heavy metals in our water and food, toxic chemicals, alcohol, many moder pharmaceutical products are tough on the liver also. Such as statin drugs used to treat cholesterol. Flukes are a parasite that infest almost all people and they reside in the liver and interrupt its function as well. It is a vicious circle. There are several things we do to improve the liver:

  1. Drink an 8oz glass of water in the morning with on Tbs of Diatomaceous Earth mixed into it. The scours the gut and helps to remove the toxins in the gut.
  2. Eat a mix of liver detox foods such as broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, etc. Drink green tea, eat leafy greens, nuts, salmon, olive oil and citrus fruits. Beet juice and coffee also help.
  3. Drink water that is filtered to remove toxins and heavy metals.
  4. There is a mix of supplements which in part help the liver. One is activated carbon since it helps the body eliminate toxins. This is important since early in the program the body is excreting more dead parasites and toxins than normal and this can actually make you feel sick for a couple of weeks. That was not my experience but the counter steps worked really well for me.
  5. Research Dr Hulda Clark and Dr Royal Rife. These scientists developed sophisticated methods that safely kill parasites, flukes, viruses and cure other bodily ailments. I am a professional electrical engineer and when I was first introduced to these techniques I was highly skeptical but agreed to try them. They work! My Dr keeps a clinic full of this equipment for his patients to use regularly. They can b purchased and set up at home as well but you will need to know how to use them. They all are based on pulsed electromagnetic field therapy but each works in a different way and compliment one another. The big Pharma industry has tried to discount and ban these treatments because the CURE disease as opposed to selling us a bottle of pills every month. There is a book by Dr Clark called "Cure Any Disease" buy and read it.
  6. Eating gluten free. This eliminates wheat, most other grain products and other sources of gluten from our diets. This is a PITA but you do get used to it.
  7. Eliminate processed foods. If it is in a box or a bag and contains chemical preservatives then we do not eat it or limit the amounts. You have to cook more at home.
In my case my liver was not working very well. I had been on statins for 30yrs and all of this contributed to my diabetes. I was eating 12 pills per day for multiple ailments and all of these have toxic side effects. I was taking 160 units of insulin per day and within 2 months using these therapies I no longer need any form of diabetes meds and have been cured of it for more than six months now. My cholesterol is normal and my energy levels went up rapidly enabling me to be much more active. I would have never done this had I not wanted to improve my health enough to go on Safari. We went to a wholistic medicine Dr here in KY who runs a program to cure his patients. Most of the client patients are over weight, diabetic, aging, suffering neuropathy, heart disease or cancer. Some have other issues. Almost all of them have improved massively within a few months. If you want more into PM me as I am not promoting his business on the forum. I expect there are other similar clinics around the country but I have never seen one. Most of the EMF/PEMF equipment was invented nearly 100yrs ago with help from Nickoli Tesla as well as Doctors Rife & Clark. It is not main stream medicine. More fringe technology. But it worked for me.
 

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