One of the most deflating experiences is to find yourself living a life void of purpose.

Conversely, one of the most fulfilling experiences is living a life filled with purpose.

Now, filling the vessel of your life with the cargo of purpose can be an arduous task. For this reason, we provided you, our readers, with works to get your mindset in order (refer to Jailhouse Strong: The Successful Mindset Manifesto and Grounded in Gratitude: A Call to Action). Of course, you may be pursuing a wide array of paths, projects, and purposes.

However, a singular drive unites all of our readers: the pursuit of strength. In this quest, strength is the goal, but it is also a necessary companion for the attainment of any worthy objective. Whether you want to climb the corporate ladder, hit a new PR on the bench, or finally make the first team of the male revue at your local casino, you need strength of both an emotional and physical quality.

Every one of our books, programs, and training guides is written with the intent of you becoming strong and staying strong. As a matter of fact, the strength to endure is one of the most difficult, but crucial, components for any individual who is carving their course through a purposeful life.

The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov once wrote: “Any fool can survive a crisis. It’s the day-to-day living that wears you out.”
Many can rise to an occasion. Few can rise out of bed every morning to slog onward in the pursuit of a goal that is blocked by a seemingly endless line of obstacles which can only be traversed through activities that are extraordinary because of their previously unfathomable monotony.

Nonetheless, you keep moving forward. You keep moving forward, with strength.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

Yet, some strength athletes, tactical athletes, and combat athletes who have been in the arena for many years become limited in their movement options because they have become locked in repetitive patterns of activity.

The definition of failure is failing to realize that you still have a choice—a choice to improve and escape your current predicament. The definition of success may be nebulous and individualistic, but it is related to having more choices rather than fewer.

To broaden your movement options, to give yourself more choice in the expression, attainment, and preservation of your strength, you need to be able to move with speed and strength.

You need to become speed strong.

Let’s talk about what we learned and how you can attain it