With everyone posting their success stories with #Reboot, I wanted to share the inspiration for the entire program. While many of you know, I ruptured L4/L5/S1 in 2013 during a training exercise. My entire life shifted with that injury. My career aspirations, my goals, my mobility, and at 21 I found myself needing help to get dressed, put my shoes on, and navigate my life with chronic pain.
A surgeon from Johns Hopkins refused to operate on me. The distinct memory of an almost emaciated version of myself sitting on the table is etched behind my eyelids. I can feel all of the pain, the fear, and the oncoming wave of nausea that would slam me like a Monday night WWE when the doctor tells me that an operation would likely fail and end up with me being in a wheelchair. At that point, there was no hope. I was medically discharged from the Army, and I was devastated.
The memory, or thought, of the fight back is one that I purposely ignore. The feelings of anguish, depression, and hollowness are still fresh; everything the 21-year-old version of myself felt I can still feel. It took two, almost three, years to regain my mobility and it took another three years to finally be pain-free from the initial rupture.
Today I stumbled across a video of me first learning how to snatch.
It.
Is.
Ugly.
But even though I had just avoided, narrowly, decapitating myself in the process, a Cheshire cat sized smile splits across my face once I stood up. I DID it! How fucking cool?! Do you know how proud I am of that? Not just the snatch, but all the shit I waded through to get here? If that little, scared-shitless, but slightly optimistic 21-year-old hadn’t shown up I wouldn’t be here. This job, this program, this life wouldn’t fucking have happened. And I am so grateful.
The photo below is of me post-rupture to now. Know that I post it with trepidation, because this is a project that I developed (along side Danny) with all my damn soul. I wanted this program to be a #Reboot. I wanted people to be able to have the tools to crawl, and fight, their way out of the darkness. The programming is meant to push you, the stipulations are meant to set new parameters for your life, the coaching is there to guide you in your emotional, mental, and physical endeavors. It will take all of you. It will require you to call yourself out on your bullshit and it will require you to step into the next version of yourself.
It was never about weightloss.
It was about rebirth.
It was about forging new paths.
I truly believe that my current situation is the result of luck, hardheadedness, and putting my head down when shit was heavy. Back then, there was no other option for me. I HAD to succeed. And I want that for you too (without the injury and heartache of course). If you’re interested in seeing what we developed, my link is below:
https://soldierfitreboot.com/optin34735052?affiliate_id=2340390
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