This is how you fight when the waters are rising
SUMMARY
When we left off, you were hanging from a pull-up bar trying to get your knees to your chest for the first time since Basic.
Max, in his wisdom, started you out in the gym, which is full of many helpful things, like dumbbells and molecules of air. He wanted you to develop a little stoutness at your center, because he knows what's coming and you, silly wittle baby, do not. You're wet behind the ears, is what he's saying. And that's not even 5% wet enough to pass the Max Your Body, Season 1 final exam.
Today, you're either going to sink or survive.
Because it's all well and good to be fit with both feet planted on firm ground, unbound and wearing comfy, civilian shoes. It's been years since you were a fetus, so you've forgotten what it's like when there's water on all sides of you, it's dark and murky, and it's up to you to figure out where your next lungful of sweet, sweet air is coming from.
Today, Max would like to remind you of the primordial fluid from whence you swam. And to make it extra memorable, he's going to bind your feet at the ankles and your hands behind your back.
If you haven't tapped out at this point, it's advisable that you tap a buddy to be in charge of Operation You Not Drowning. Everything all nice and secure? Excellent! In you go.
Your mission — and it's too late to opt out — is to suppress your rational panic and concentrate on using all this handy fitness you've been developing to go Full Amphibian while the water rises around you. You. Can. Do. This. For nine months, this was your everything. You used to be the Chuck Norris of tadpoles. Time to make your mother proud.
And if you do start getting the urge to have a big baby meltdown, just remember, there's a benefit to plunging in with Max.
The benefit is you've lost the illusion of control. There's no turning back. And the alternative to rising to this most fetal of challenges is sinking to the most fatal of depths.
Death, at whatever depth, is dumb. So it's your choice, baby.
Watch as Max takes your fear and drowns it in a municipal pool, in the video embedded at the top.
