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I didn't care about fitness until after

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I enlisted . So I enlisted at 17 in

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high school , I was not an athlete in

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the slightest closest I got to being an

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athlete was playing on a computer .

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Eventually I , I fell in love with ,

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you know , the idea of heavy weight

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lifting and power lifting over time . I

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blew up to about , at my peak , I was

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about 270 pounds . My goal was

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to be a big strong mass monster , but I

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found that I had a really big

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struggles with the back then the A PFT

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because two mile runs at 270 pounds are

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rough . I hindered my

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career progress by being regularly

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flagged for either PT failure or height

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weight failure . And I thought about

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getting out . So then I ended up on the

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opposite extreme . The lowest I got to

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was I think about 100 81 or 100 82

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pounds . I was

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running 40 to 50 miles a week . I kind

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of had the running bug , I guess in a

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way and the , what's called the

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Calisthenics book . But I told myself ,

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like , gotta run more . Gotta run more ,

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gotta run more . Um , I know I , you

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know , I got 99 points on my two mile

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run . I need to get the , I need to get

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100 points . 99 is not good enough .

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I used to at one point in my life

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really prioritize the physical fitness

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aspect . I am trying to find a more

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balanced approach these days to where I

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don't , I don't want to become that

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person who necessarily hyper focuses on

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physical fitness to the detriment of my

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mental health . You have to be ok with

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being good enough

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because we're all juggling a number of

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different things and we have to

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prioritize those things and we cannot

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be 100% in everything in our

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life . We don't want to be quote

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unquote catastrophically excellent as

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in focusing so much on being

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excellent that it leads to catastrophic

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effects on our personal health , on our

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mental health , on our social life , on

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our family life .