1. Training For Real-World Skills
It's important to train for real-world conditions and crises. I get the sense that some guys think showing up at the gym with a sleeveless shirt and headphones, doing sets and looking in the mirror, make them in shape. They do not.

2. Examples. When running, run through forests, hills, and up slopes. In both summer and winter. When swimming, every now and then swim with your clothes on. You'd have to do this is a ship went down. Be able to tread water for an hour. Be able to take your...

3. ...trousers off and use them as flotation device. Do multiple max sets of pullups, pushups, dips, situps. With & without added weight. Never wear glovers, which are for wimps. You will quickly find out that these workouts are a lot harder than you ever thought.

4. And with firearms, train for the real world. 9mm pistols are fine and good, but I see a lot of guys at range who are afraid of recoil. Flinchers. You should be able to handle the repeated blast of a .357 revolver, cylinder after cylinder. Without some rubber grip.

5. You granddaddy who was in Korea or Vietnam had walnut grips on his .357, and he could handle it just fine. His hands were like iron. You should be able to handle it too. But so many guys, I think, are afraid of the more powerful loads.