06/26/2026
When someone asks you why you’re doing this work — why you’re squatting heavy, grinding through conditioning, tracking your food — here’s the real answer: You're building a buffer for the future.
You’re creating the capacity to recover from injury, to survive accidents, to build a hedge against the sickness and decrepitude that come with aging and inactivity.
You might not feel like you need this hedge yet because maybe you’re young and healthy and fine, but you’re making deposits into an account you’ll desperately need when you’re 70 or 80 or 90. And the deposits you make now are worth way more than the ones you’ll try to make later.
The person who trained consistently from 35 to 75 has an unbelievable capacity at 75. The person who starts training at 70 is playing catch-up in a losing game.
Read the complete article, "The Sickness-Wellness-Fitness Continuum: Building Your Hedge Against Decrepitude," by Stephane Rochet, CF-L3, on CrossFit.com. ➡️ https://www.crossfit.com/essentials/crossfit-SWF-building-a-hedge-against-decrepitude