Ep. 53 - Built Men: Winning the Body (Part 6 of 8)

[lips smack] Your body is not separate from your purpose.

So physical discipline affects spiritual clarity.

I'll say that again.

Physical discipline affects spiritual clarity.

Weak bodies create tired leaders.

Now, I still get tired quite often.

Um, a couple nights ago, I fell asleep at 8:30 on the sofa.

Got up about 9:30, brushed my teeth, got in bed, and went back to sleep, and it felt great.

Felt like I needed to get caught up on some sleep.

[lips smack] Uh, Sunday, just a couple days prior, I took a two-hour nap after church.

It felt real good.

So with this, I'm getting close to 50, and I'm starting to feel like that energy is not what it was when I was in my 20s, and that, that's part of life.

So we need to own that.

We need to accept that.

[lips smack] But how can we strengthen our bodies? Well, a year ago, I couldn't do one pull-up, and it bothered me.

I was very frustrated, thinking if I ever had to jump over a wall, I probably couldn't.

And I thought, "You know, this has got to change." And so I got back into just doing a little bit, just one day a week and then two days a week.

And there's times in my life I've been on, I've been off, of how I eat and how I exercise or how I don't.

And so with these things, [lips smack] you know, I, I think about what's the why.

You know, my why is I'd like to have energy to play with my grandkids when they come.

Mine is I would like to, you know, have more time on this earth, not just for my own personal gain or my fear of death, but more time with my grandkids.

Um, I lost my dad when he was 69 years old.

He was healthy.

He was a hard worker outside, and I don't know why all those things happen, but he did get colon cancer and, you know, sad to see him at 69 years old, um, get real weak real fast and die.

His mom was just about 100, so 30 more years.