Strong People Are Hard To Kill

Or Why Am I Killing Myself In The Gym Every Day?

A post about nutrition, fitness, health, longevity and the title is 110% true. We learn this lesson dramatically from someone like Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor of a fight between hundreds of Taliban and a 4 man SEAL team on a mountainside in Afghanistan. And we should learn it in daily, normal fashion all the time from observing the elderly and infirm around us. Not to mention what we learned in COVID, where those impacted were, by a ridiculously large number, people who were obese, diabetic, and otherwise weak and infirm.

For much of my life, I was strong and lean. I spent my childhood playing outside, roaming the woods and fields near my house, and playing sports. I joined the Army at 18 and spent over a decade doing hard, heavy things. The life of a tank crewman is very physical on a daily basis.

The author, in 1991, working on broken track on his tank

After my Army career, I stay…