Breaking Yourself to Build Yourself*

CM SEAL Team blogger: Tom Rancich

SO---Many of you may have noticed that my blogs are more cerebral (easy for you to say) than they are about fitness and routines and how to do calisthenics. Well unfortunately, some readers don’t get the hint that I don’t WANT to talk about that stuff but they still persist in asking me about how many this and what about the perfect this or that. So here it is—GET OFF MY BACK—fact is, I think it is a bunch of bunk.
Alden came into the military 6 years after me—he was part of the “new” military---I was part of the old---he was part of the “we have to do this because” and I was part of “shut the f*ck about or I will take you behind the conex box and beat the cr@p out of you” ---his generation of officer sought to understand the emotions and motivations of his people---my generation jacked people up if they didn’t perform to my liking. So—with regard to all the perfect stuff---I don’t know. Maybe it makes sense if you think about it—but why think about it?

I am just fine after doing it the old way—I mean—if you aren’t hurting then my question is why? The answer, of course, is you aren’t trying---and frankly who cares if you are arthritic when you are fifty---I mean—you are fifty—so all the research that Alden has done and all the performance enhancing and ground breaking fitness ideas and equipment to get better results with less stress on the body and focus on lifestyle and lifelong fitness is all well and good---if you really need those sorts of crutches. Otherwise I say suck it up butter cup and get out there and run with a tire dragging from your waist until you can’t take another step then drop and give me fifty and then run some hills with your buddy on your back---it ain’t brain science or rocket surgery---it is breaking yourself to build yourself—on April Fool’s Day* of course! And only a fool would listen to advice like I just gave!!

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Lt. Commander Thomas Rancich, US Navy SEAL (Ret.) is the co-founder of VRHabilis, a disabled veteran-owned small business that seeks to employ the highly trained and motivated veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for work in construction and related fields. Rancich and co-founder Elliott Adler are pioneering the concept of using adaptive technology to bridge the gap between industrial and medical technology. Their company contributes proceeds to two worthy causes: a fund for the development of adaptive technology that will allow disabled veterans to pursue their desired career path and the EOD Wounded Warrior Fund.





Through his consulting firm, Off-Shore Consulting, Tom provides professional advice on leadership and team building, often as a motivational speaker, in addition to being an expert consultant to the entertainment industry.

Alden Mills and Charlie Mike blogger Tom Rancich served together in the Teams.