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Winning is everything. Because it is. Every day, in everything you do, your wins are waiting for you. They’re everywhere. But they won’t wait forever. Stop waiting to be told what you can and can’t do. Stop watching others win while you stand on the sidelines wondering when it’s going to be your turn. Your turn is now. Long-term goals are great… but “long term” isn’t promised to anyone. Your skills and opportunities have an expiration date. If you want something, go get it now. I get so frustrated with those who say they want to win, but show no urgency or drive to actually do it, as if they’ll have unlimited years and opportunities to figure it out. As if it’s just going to happen eventually. To me, a sense of urgency is the ultimate distinction between those who win and those who watch others win.
This frames how I view strength training in general. It’s largely about improving your ability to carry things. I’ve always been a fan of carrying heavy objects with my hands. As a teenager working on a construction site over the summers, I always volunteered to haul tools and materials across the site, and today I still incorporate some kind of carrying, typically with dumbbells, kettlebells, or sandbags, into most of my workouts. I’ve also become semiobsessed with an activity called rucking, which basically means hiking or walking at a fast pace with a loaded pack on your back. Three or four days a week, I’ll spend an hour rucking around my neighborhood, up and down hills, typically climbing and descending several hundred feet over the course of three or four miles. The fifty- to sixty-pound pack on my back makes it quite challenging, so I’m strengthening my legs and my trunk while also getting in a solid cardiovascular session. The best part is that I never take my phone on these outings; it’s just me, in nature, or maybe with a friend or a family member or a houseguest (for whom rucking is mandatory; I keep two extra rucksacks in the garage).
Eric’s finding about translation was a major revelation, but not the only one. Almost as shocking was the overall realization that knee injuries are seldom about the knee. The top fifteen factors in Eric’s knee study all have to do with the hip or ankle. (The top-ranking knee measurement is knee flexion, with 17 percent impact, way down the list.)
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