1 fitness trap Ryan Reynolds overcomes to stay super jacked at 47
I visited my dad recently and for some reason, the subject of my favorite self-improvement books came up.
I have 3 that stand above all others, and when people ask me about them, I recommend reading them in a specific order.
That’s a subject for a different post, but the reason I bring it up is that he texted me last night to say that he’d just finished the audio version of one of them — Can’t Hurt Me by former Navy SEAL David Goggins — and that he found it to be really inspiring.
He also clued into something extremely important about staying fit as you age.
My dad is 67 and has lately been dealing with shoulder and back pain.
He specifically mentioned how, in the closing chapters of the book, Goggins talks about one major adjustment he had to make after years and years of punishing military training and ultramarathon running.
He needed to start stretching. For hours. Every day. And then suddenly all his problems started to recede.
In Goggins’ quest to become a “savage”, he didn’t respect his body enough — and it started pushing back.
When he treated it with proper care, it became an ally again.
