| "What are you guys training for?"
Like Sailor, yes I am training to be around to meet my grandkids. But for me the health aspect is secondary-a side benefit.
For me being armed means being the weapons platform. If I can't get to the target, I can't deliver my load of hate onto the enemy. Period. I need to be fast, hard, strong and have enough gas to go the distance, over all terrain, in all weather, against all comers. Thats why I work out. Enough on that.
Then there is training. Learning, practicing, skill building. Call it what you want. I call it sharpening the spear. When the SHTF, I don't want to be thinking "man I wish I trained harder..."
Somewhere, right now, there is a man who is training for the day we meet, and he wants me dead. He is training hard. Running trails, or lifting weights in prison, or living off rice in a cave in the mountains, or doing team tactics on a range in Virginia. Doesn't matter who or where. I am training harder. He will lose.
THATS what motivates me. |