Always Be Ready

May 11, 2025

Always Be Ready

For whatever reason, perhaps the alignment of the stars, a few around me and social media algorithms feeding my browsing habits have been hitting hard on the topic of getting after it if for no other reason than it is the right thing to do.

From my wife harping on a David Goggins video that apparently has him responding to why he is working out so hard. “David, why are you training so hard and what are you training for? Training. I ain’t training for *hit! I am just going to be f-ing ready!” I am sure the diatribe by Goggins is more explicitly laced and colorful than I describe, but you get the point. Goggins can hit home like most others cannot.

Other short passages and videos talk about putting in the work when no one is watching. Showing up when one is tired and unmotivated. Day in and day out. When it is dark outside and everyone else is sleeping in the comforts of their beds, you are having burpees for breakfast! Lots of discipline and dedication snippets reinforcing a drive that best resonates internally. I realize that most of the time nothing worthwhile happens overnight and it is the consistent execution of discipline that forges a person to always be ready!

But why do you always exercise and how have you done this for so much of your life? Because this is a piece of ME and who I AM, a dedicated stud may respond. There are so many health benefits to meaningfully moving every single day.

Physical benefits of being able to accomplish to a high standard without any doubt or fear whatever needs to be done at any given time is good security. Can you wrestle a bear if one decides it wants to tangle with you when you are out hiking in the middle of nowhere? Well be prepared then! Just kidding. But get your rear in shape anyway!

Benefits to all of the internal functioning of the bodily systems are derived from consistent, even if moderate exercise. Watch your medication intake drop or cease after a while of daily discipline. Avoid having to start taking meds for disease that can be controlled through a steady dose of exercise. Control what you shove in your mouth and move yourself and observe the benefits.

Physical activity is also extremely beneficial to the mental makeup of an individual. I am able to sort things out better when I am in a consistent pattern of running. I have found that regardless of the type of exercise conducted on any given day, my mental state kicks up a notch and I feel better and perform better. Oh, you say, I am tired. No, you are not tired, you are unhealthy, one unwaveringly committed high performer put it. Get off the couch and get your butt in gear and watch your energy level increase.

I heard Dr. Memet Oz recently say that it is your patriotic duty to be healthy. I loved hearing this comment. It might be a little extreme and not necessarily true, but if more people were healthy, it would be a heck of a lot less burdensome to taxpayers paying for all of the chronic disease developed by bad, daily choices. You may not owe it to your country to be healthy, but you owe it to yourself.

You don’t have to have the last names Hanes to be ready for whatever comes your way. Strive to be the best version of yourself. And don’t give me that B.S. of this is the best version of me. Go to the grave knowing that you gave it your all dang near every single day. And if you find yourself in a situation, you know that you were not training for something, you were making sure that you were going to be f-ing ready!

Go get some, stud!

J.C.