Training your body to handle harsher conditions

Activity: Weight Training

Advantages: Ability to exert more force with muscles (ie. run faster, lift heavier objects, etc.)

Overdoing it: Pulling a muscle, breaking a bone, etc.

Activity: Temperature Training

Advantages: Ability to be more comfortable in extreme weather conditions

Overdoing it: Hypothermia, frostbite, heat stroke, etc

Activity: Suntanning

Advantages: Ability to handle higher levels of solar radiation

Overdoing it: Sunburn, Skin cancer

Activity: Fasting

Advantages: Ability to go for long periods without being hungry

Overdoing it: Starvation

Activity: Exposure to low levels of bacteria/viruses (playing in dirt, not using hand sanitizer, vaccines, etc)

Advantages: Increases strength of immune system

Overdoing it: Getting sick

 

Activity: Cardio

Advantages: Increases lung and heart capacity/ endurance

Overdoing it: Running out of breath, heart attack

Activity: Flirting with strangers

Advantages: Increases ability to handle rejection

Overdoing it: Suicide?  Getting the cops called on you?