Horror movie tip: never split up. Monsters, murderers, and creeps have it easier when they can divide and conquer.Real world parallel: trying to better your fitness by yourself is harder than with a good support group.

Don’t Be Alone

Self Improvement

Horror movie tip: Most horror movie bad guys are very slow but watch where you step so you don’t trip. Simply maintaining a brisk walking pace after sighting the enemy should be enough to get to safety.Real world parallel: Spend time leveling up your sprinting skills. It builds strength, power, VO2max, endurance and quality of life while also helping you lose weight if paired with a healthy diet.

Get Good At Sprinting

Problem Solving

Horror movie tip: the unintelligent and unprepared often die in movies, so get smarter, train yourself and learn how to use tools and new skills.Real world parallel: take a tactical approach to both your training and your behavior. Train functionally so that your body is prepared to function. Use your environment, your body weight and free weights to exercise. will give you a better body and the best chance for survival.

Training Brains, Technique And Strength

Horror movie tip: Monsters can be deceptive, wearing disguises and playing dead, and lure you into a trap. Be a skeptic and think carefully before taking potentially dangerous actions.Real world parallel: remain a skeptic when trying to get healthy. Cheap thrills and easy paths often lead to nowhere or are harmful.

Be A Skeptic

Horror movie tip: characters whose main response to challenges are panicking, crying about it or giving up are annoying and make themselves easier prey.Real world parallel: In life, you’re gonna think things are getting better, only to find new challenges ahead. But giving up or despairing just leaves you longer with a problem, or even add to it. It’s your responsibility to fix it, so do it.

Complaining Will Get You Nowhere

Horror movie tip: characters often knock out a bad guy and then immediately run away, effectively giving them a chance to recover and try again. Don’t do it, incapacitate him and finish the job.Real world parallel: Make sure you finish what you started. Follow through with your health and fitness or pay the price.

Finish The Job

In honor of All Hallows' Eve, I wanted to cover a specific topic today: what you should do if you happen to find yourself suddenly stuck in a horror film.

How to Survive a Horror Film | Nerd Fitness

<ul><li>Ice is good for numbing pain, but avoid it when it’s so cold that frostbite can set in in record time. </li><li>As the film Arctic shows, snow can be used to plug wounds preventing hemorrhage as it induces vasoconstriction. It can still cause frostbite but it might be better than the alternative.</li></ul>

Use Snow For Various Medical Purposes

Arctic explorers would carry their water bottles under their coats, on the ridge between their shoulders, right at the bases of their heads. That would keep it from melting without getting in the way of other stuff they had to carry. They would also not drink their bottles all the way empty. Leaving a little water inside kept the refill from freezing.

Don’t Let Your Water Bottle Freeze

Your body takes a lot of energy&nbsp;away from maintaining your core temperature in order to melt snow, so avoid it unless you are dehydrating.

Don’t Eat Snow, If Possible

<ul><li>Dig down and then sideways to keep the shelter from collapsing. Snow is good at supporting itself.</li><li>Make the shelter slightly bigger than the space you need for your body so your body has less air to warm</li><li>Be sure to put down a pad, sleeping bag, or another layer of some kind between you and the ground. Laying directly on the snow will sap the heat from your body.</li></ul>

Build An Effective Snow Shelter

In Arctic, the pilot uses wire and a battery from his plane to generate heat and melt through the ice.To avoid having to sit exposed while waiting for the fish to bite, make a bell by suspending a portion of the fishing line between two stakes, then string two things onto it that’ll clink together when you've got a fish on—a couple of pots, say, or the blades from trowels.

Ice Fish Efficiently

In an Arctic landscape, you won’t run out of water. But you will run out of food. Getting to sea ice means you’re over water, which means you’re over fish.

In An Arctic Landscape, Get To Sea Ice

Signal for help in a way that can be seen from the sky, even a mirror will do.In Arctic, the pilot moves snow to render an "SOS" from the underlying black rock—but then has to spend time every day clearing snow that has blown through and obscured the message.

Visually Signaling For Help

Radios or transponders, especially those powered by a hand crank, are limited in range and direction. So you should regularly rotate transmission locations around your base camp.Arctic shows us that the pilot has been stranded for weeks by revealing the map on which he tracks his transponder broadcasts: He’s marked off several days of broadcasting at each of several peaks around his plane.

Signal For Help With A Radio

Tells the story of the lone survivor of a plane crash in the far north. Living out of the carcass of his plane, he hones a routine for staying fed and attempting to signal potential rescuers eventually leaving the plane to increase his odds of being rescued.A lot of research on survival and on frozen landscapes was made for writing the movie and this can be seen in the actions of the character and the challenges he faces.

The Movie “Arctic”

The new movie Arctic , out February 1, opens with the main character already several weeks into a solitary subsistence. The pilot, played by Mads Mikkelsen of Doctor Strange and TV's Hannibal , is the lone survivor of a plane crash in the far north.

8 Essential Tips from 'Arctic,' the Best Survival Movie in Years

<ol><li>Before leaping to any safety lines, look around to ensure the place you are fleeing is indeed falling apart. It definitely is, but that extra certainty will boost your adrenaline.</li><li>Hide under a table. Wood can handle everything.</li><li>Crash land any flying vehicles into densely populated areas and use the vehicle of those you kill to continue fleeing the disaster site.</li><li>If the city is crumbling, head to the nearest under-construction high rise as God only destroys completed structures.</li><li>Trapped in a flooding building with unbreakable glass? Drive your boat through the window. Don't wait for people to clear the area. There's no time. </li><li>If The Rock offers to rescue you, accept it. He's a harbinger of chaos, so there are only a few minutes before the ground you sit on will become a gaping sinkhole.</li><li>Don't live in California. That state asks for it.</li></ol>

Other Survival Tips From The Rock's San Andreas

Steal from local rescue authorities. If you find survival supplies inside an unoccupied fire truck, you have "dibs" and can take them. If you only need one item but the box is full of other usable items, throw the box to the side where others won't find it. If they heal themselves first, they'll steal all the safe spots.

Acquiring Supplies

This weekend, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's destruction-porn-a-thon San Andreas averted disaster with a sizable $54.6 million at the U.S. box office. The people spoke: news reports and shocking photos from around the world aren't enough. Multiplex-goers want to see waves crashin', fires burnin', and earthquakes quakin' in their blockbusters too.

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Don’t Be Alone

How to Survive a Horror Film | Nerd Fitness

Use Snow For Various Medical Purposes

8 Essential Tips from 'Arctic,' the Best Survival Movie in Years