You’ve heard of CrossFit. Maybe you’ve seen fit people lifting big weights on Instagram. Maybe one of your co-workers goes to CrossFit after work every …

Typically, we do all this work in the gym to allow us to pursue adventure OUTSIDE the gym. Maybe it is for s hunting trip into the mountains, or keeping up with your kids, or my personal favorite…. The beach body. On your deathbed, you likely won’t care about your max-rep thruster, but you WILL be glad you climbed Half Dome at Yosemite, or finished the Rim-to-Rim Challenge at Grand Canyon National Park…. and those thrusters helped you do it.

Typically, we don’t rise to the level of challenge we face, rather, we fall to the level of preparation we have. This is why military …