Ready To Take The Leap?

Sometimes life throws you challenges and sometimes you go out and search for them. Wouldn’t it be nice to be prepared either way? I think so.

In recent years, “mud runs” have inundated cities all over the United States. These have become opportunities for all people to train to run, and leap, and dive, and balance, and trudge through all sorts of obstacles and feats of endurance. Some people choose to do this for the fun of it, while others choose to use it for motivation to get strong and fit enough to conquer the challenges.

Many patients have taken the task head on. They have participated in Spartan Sprints, Tough Mudders, Mud to Suds, Warrior Dashes and the like. They train sometimes for months just to get away from their average days at work or home and get the chance to get dirty and sore with exhaustion.

Some of you may be shaking your heads. Perchance intentionally putting yourself in pressure situations like these is just not anything you’re interested in doing. That’s okay. It really is.

However, remember what I said in the very first paragraph…sometimes life throws you the challenges. These moments aren’t fun. They aren’t predictable. They have different names than those of these mud obstacle courses. They have more deceptive names. They are called Slipped and Fell Down, Got Rear Ended, Repetitive Stress Injury at Work, Strained Lifting a Heavy Object, Collided at Football Practice, Bonked My Head, Degenerative Joints. These challenges sneak up and hit you when you are least expecting it. Most people don’t plan for these events. They affect your life in a very negative way. They hurt much differently than the soreness and the muddiness of the obstacle courses.

Either way, it’s important to be prepared. It’s important to train. This means putting the work into exercising on a regular basis so that if a challenge arises, you have the strength and the endurance. This means eating copious amount of vegetables and fruits as well as keeping your meat and dairy intake minimized so that when a challenge arises, you can have the building blocks and cellular integrity to handle what’s thrown at you. This means keeping your joints under regular chiropractic care to ensure that when the challenges com, your nervous system, your protective spinal column and each of your extremities have the biomechanical fortitude to handle the stress of the event.

So whether you plan in advance to take on the obstacle that requires you to jump over the fire, or life decides on its own to push you towards the “fire” whether you like it or not…

Be prepared.

If you needed to, are you ready to take the leap?