Why don't I clock my running times (besides the fact that I am rubbish)? Why don't I spend my days in the gym throwing weights around? What's my best time run or heaviest weight lifted? No idea! What I do know is that I train hard and it works (for me at least). 3 days of grappling, 2 days of sandbag and if I am lucky a day or two of running (25 mins max!). I may even throw in some yoga and additional core work if I feel like it (I might just as easily make myself a banana shake!). Besides having arthritis in one shoulder and the other needing some bone cut out (!) I have never been fitter, stronger or indeed tougher. I am pretty sure that having a 120kg monster looking to choke me out or rip my arm off may induce my body to try a little harder than if I were max-repping on single-arm biceps curls at Fitness First. Throw in some hard work on a mountain occasionally and voila! Good to go! The rest is kept in my head inside that thing we humans don't really use as much as we probably outta.

I could be wrong and you are free to disagree, but physical conditioning for proper adventure is not rocket science. It's just not! Train hard, have fun and your done. Sure, if you needed to find a 1/100th of a second to beat an opponent on the track then of course it starts to become a little more finite. But, on the side of a mountain or in the desert it counts for nada. There are no definites. How far today? How hard today? On expedition you just never know.

I reckon Navy Seal, Dave Goggins, in the video above may know a thing or two about tough and being an ultra-marathon runner he might just clock his times. However, as a Navy Seal it just don't matter how many seconds he took off his PB. He trains hard and he stays alive. Easy (sorta).