Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27890440-20160301095334/@comment-24037808-20160301114620

I don't think SP training is related to fitness only. I mean, they are genetically augmented, choosen from the best younger warrior of their planets and most of all they wear an armor which boost strenght, speed and agility way beyond their super-himan muscle capabilities.

Consider melee weapons has a big role in 40k and SM have to be skilled with quite different weapons like fists, swords, axes, hammers, claws and so on. All of this training SM do to increase their skill with those weapons involve fitness as a conseguence.

More, Space Marines are not so many, scattered around the galaxy and called everytime that's something going around, so the time they have for lazyness is very scarce.

Even in times were they do not fight directly every day (chasing, traveling to planets etc), don't think about SM like normal soldiers. They are sons of Primarchs, the armed will of the Emperor, superhuman guardians of the human kind. They will keep in best shape as possible not for themselves, nor because it is their job. They are completely devoted to their tasks. SM train till the last breath everyday to kill enemies of the Imperium, to shine at the eyes of the Emperor itself, to honour their Chapter and their Primarch.

Regarding wounds i think is not even a topic. The Chapter Master of the Ultramarines Marneus Calgar lost all four limbs as well as large areas of body tissue and his left eye in combat and he's still in command. There is very little that cannot be fixed even considering the augmented body and the suit that immediately works on wounds the very second they appear. Apart from that, if something is really screwed up, bionic replacements will do the job.