The Strenuous Life

The man in this photo is Teddy Roosevelt, during the time he worked as a cowboy on the American Frontier in the late 1800s.

Teddy Roosevelt today is revered as Mascunline symbol MAN,

But he was not always so robust.
As a child growing up, he was sickly, and had asthma. He was often in poor health, and his earliest years were of his parents worrying about him, and he spending much time in bed.

When he was 6 years old on a family camping trip, he was bullied by two older boys and beat up
This sparked a change in Teddy, and he resolved to learn to box soon after. From boxing gradually arose an intense love of exercise, and by the time Roosevelt was in his teens, he had transformed himself into an athlete

Roosevelt in college here, age 19 or 20
Roosevelt never officially had a "fitness philosophy", but he did have the Doctrine of a Strenuous Life, taken from one of his most famous speeches, that a of man who continually challenges himself.
"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace..."
"but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph"
As President, Roosevelt would exercise for HOURS every day, doing the tried and true combination of all great men...

Calisthenics training (bodyweight)
Long walks
And as much as he could, combat sports

You find this combination a lot in most hard men https://gumroad.com/l/IwIGr/Hometraining
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