Nick Bare

I'm trying to relate my journey of military entrepreneur experience

In the military, you have, especially infantry, you're in a platoon, all these like-minded guys who are on a purpose and a mission to accomplish this one thing.

There's a lot of alignment.

And then you transition out and you're alone and you don't have the accountability of these guys anymore.

You don't have the structure.

You don't have the discipline.

You don't have the brotherhood that you once had.

Do you ever miss that?

Because as someone who is really operating alone on your property, doing a lot of these things solo, what does a community of other men look like in your life right now?

And do you ever miss having that?

Yeah, us as men are really good with that of...

putting all of our problems off and using a different void to just glance over them.

I mean, for me, performance and building my business and working and grinding and going from prep to prep to prep to race, race, race was just that same thing.

This is a way for me to justify my problems where I can put all my energy into these things to avoid what I'm actually supposed to be facing.

How has your view, perspective, and relationship with fitness changed over the years?

What does training mean to you now compared to what it did?

Absolutely.

I mean, it's a sign of maturity.

for a long time i rooted my entire identity in training performance where i would go crush myself in the the gym on runs for multiple hours a day to have no energy for anything else that day yeah you get home you have to sit on the couch you're a zombie around the family because you spent that whole day training and i got to a point where i was like what am i doing this for

I love training.