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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

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Games

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Running
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Healthy Making
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.

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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Use Way Your
One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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Vines
Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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Winning
I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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Running
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Know Looks
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Years
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Earthquakes Looks Survivor
It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
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Explain Quote Relate
I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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Three Tvs
And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.

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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.

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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Get Numbers Up
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.

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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Expecting Stuff Unpredictable
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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Overcoming Self
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Eyebrows

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

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