Align your fitness goals with the challenges of daily life, but also with emergency readiness.

What if you have to run from something or toward something? Can you run? What if you have to climb, or jump? Are you maintaining those abilities? What if you have to lift a heavy object or wrestle free from someone? Can you do it?

Be well-rounded and ready to spring into action. Proper rest periods are critical to this as well, because part of being prepared is not being injured or exhausted.

There are obvious impediments to this as we get older, but giving up on fitness isn’t a realistic option.