Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

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My sense of connection with my environment meant that although the rational, logical part of my brain was telling me, ‘Remember that your target is in that building over there,’ there was another part of me that knew that the guy I’d clocked out of the corner of my eye needed my attention first. All the time I was making sure I remained alert for potential danger – scanning the buildings that surrounded the market.

Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

But Middleton’s instincts told him to preserve the crew’s energy, despite the rumblings of discontent.As we began our descent, we all went through the routines that had become second nature to all of us over the course of the tour: checking weapons, making sure that all the straps on our Bergens were tight; exchanging glances with the guys sitting near us to make sure they were ok.

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The tips are great and the book is the perfect length for a refresh on self care and rules for life. I shaded my eyes with my hand for a second, tried to block out the insistent scream of the helicopter’s engines and thought about what had brought a group of Royal Marines to a seemingly unremarkable settlement in a remote part of Afghanistan.For last year’s Channel 4 programme Ant Middleton: Extreme Everest, he led a small team in an attempt to summit the highest mountain on Earth – a six-week expedition in which he, cameraman Ed Wardle and a Sherpa successfully reached the top. And while everybody in the village almost certainly knew what was happening and who was responsible, they obviously didn’t have any intention of sticking around long enough for us to ask them about it. They just wanted to earn a living and were sufficiently desperate that they didn’t care too much about how they went about it.

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My view even then was that we didn’t go to war to kill, we were there to stop bad guys from taking life. There were so many of them moving so fast that I found it impossible to focus on any one individual. It was just a case of working out exactly where the fear was in space and time, then visualising it, before making a conscious choice to step into it and – finally – doing what had to be done. The people who love you will offer you constructive criticism, because they want you to be the best version of yourself that you can be.I learnt a lot from his experience of extreme physical and mental pressure and how to find your limits. Middleton was the last person in the queue to descend, with oxygen dwindling and other mountaineers and even Sherpas struggling in front of him. But he does not allow the logistics of his post-military career to impact upon his performance at work or with his family. Some interesting stories - clearly he has led a colourful life so enjoyed that autobiographical aspect of the book. He explains a number of the situations that he’s faced and how he could have dealt with them better.