Nate Pontius

not being stressed all the time and overall health so that I don't become a liability for my daughter in the future.

So that's how my fitness and health has sort of changed.

I would say I'm far healthier now, physically capable, not so much as I used to be, but I'll take that trade off any day as I'm sure you would.

It's like you're finding this perfect little balance of enough fitness to keep you showing up for your family and doing all the things that are important.

But whenever you're doing so much fitness that it's negatively impacting you in other areas of your life, that's where you have to draw the line.

Especially being a rancher.

Well, and so that's the thing.

You know, I had a couple instances kind of early on where I actually, I got rhabdo whenever I was competing professionally in CrossFit.

And so when that happens, it's kind of like you flip a circuit breaker.

Whenever you flip a circuit or whenever you blow a circuit breaker, that fuse becomes a little bit weaker.

And so you become more susceptible to being a repeat offender of rhabdo.

And I hadn't done CrossFit in years and years and years.

I still have all the skills.

I can still do all the stuff.

And I got invited to go out and do MRF, which is the Memorial Day workout where you do freaking a mile run and 100 pull-ups and 200 push-ups, 300 squats and a mile run in a plate carrier.

I probably hadn't done a pull-up in six years.

I don't know what I was thinking, but I went and jammed through a MRF.

And then like not eight hours later, I'm peeing dark brown Coca-Cola and I can't straighten my arms.

I'm like, damn it.

I got freaked out.