The warrior recognizes the truth of the C.S. Lewis’ words, “There is no neutral territory.”
Most of the citizenry wants to believe that life is lived primarily on neutral territory where they can escape the battle. There is no such place in the spirit or in the body. We choose to fight, or we choose to aid and abet the enemy by not fighting. These are our only two choices.
The general attitude toward training is that it is a hobby we do when we can get around to it. Or even if we exercise regularly, we half-ass it by giving our attention to other things while we lope on the treadmill or go through the motions with the machines. How much time and energy has been wasted in gyms by people who didn’t engage fully during exercise?
We are born on a battlefield. Spiritually and physically, our choices are victory or decline. I read some great advice the other day on bodybuilding.com: “…to ‘train like a barbarian‘: Treat every single set like it is your last set. Treat every single rep like your life depends on it.” Truthfully, your life does depend on it.
On the battlefield, I am being attacked. Regardless of how I feel about it, or how tired I am, or how much I may want to be doing something else, or how shaky my arms or legs are, I am still being attacked. Either I fight as if my life depends on it, or I resign myself to decline and defeat. Oh, how bitter it would be to stand in defeat knowing victory had been only moments away if I had just fought with passion till the end.
When we train, let’s train as if our lives depend on it…because they do.
King Leonidas: “This is where we fight. This is where they die!”
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