Twenty-five years ago, I started out training athletes and people who wanted to lose weight. But over time I noticed something: people weren’t connecting their training to their actual lives. I’d tell them, this isn’t about the cable machine — it’s about standing up from a chair. Getting up off the ground. Standing up from a toilet on your own when you’re eighty. It’s not about squatting a barbell. It’s about being able to move, and then being able to help someone else move.

The longer I coached, the more I met people — often older adults — caring for a spouse, or a disabled child, or a parent. And I realized strength isn’t just physical. It’s vocational: your strength to do your job, coach Little League, stay focused, show up for the work you’re called to do. It’s spiritual: caring for your body as you’d care for anything else entrusted to you. And it’s relational: the strength to mentor, to be looked up to, to be present for the people who need you.

That’s Everyday Strength. Not one thing, but four working together — physical, vocational, spiritual, relational — because the whole point of getting strong isn’t the mirror. It’s everything strength lets you carry for the people who need you to carry it.