09/18/2024
Genetics. They can be beat. And also broken.
Here I am next to two of my brothers. I am 33. They are both bad ass athletes in their own right. One a Special Forces Airborne Ranger that went through SERE School and is a war veteran. The other a near Red Bull level mountain bike rider that makes your jaw drop at the stunts he would do at all out speeds on crazy obstacles.
I lifted. I ran. I liked multi day adventure races with a team of like minded sick friends.
Knowing I could exceed what so many would think impossible genetically and naturally…is at the core of my coaching beliefs of others. Of course I believe in it. Of course I believe you can do it too. Because I did it.
And the irony that my body’s genetics were “beaten” in the most fantastic way by my years of hard work…and then beaten in the most cruel way years later without known cause…only has me understanding the following:
If genetics can be broken naturally in any direction, good or bad…it’s proof of a doorway that swings both ways. You just have to find the right keys. And it will continue to be my life’s work. Because I know every path has at least two directions.
There are choices we have to make in life that are by all known means impossible or at the very least, improbable…yet we have to make them. Your power is always in your choice. Everyone needs to train now for the disease they have coming. The work you do for yourself matters. It will always matter.
