Inspiring People Endurance

Inspiring people in terms of physical endurance do the things that physically leave everyone else shuddering with thoughts of pain or fear, yet the things they do fill us all with awe. The body is capable of doing far more than most people realise, these people are aware of this and push boundaries that prove it. There comes a certain point where what you are doing ceases to be about what is physically possible, it becomes about what is mentally possible. Mental strength can carry you an amazing distance where physical endurance is concerned. Add in the inspiration you can get from these people and you will find you can surpass many things.

Sir Ranaulf Fiennes
David Goggins
Marcus Luttrell
Nick Vujicic

The adversity all these people have faced is great, for many of them they have stared down life threatening conditions that would cause many to stop, and yet they have prevailed and been successful. Note here that if you have a life threatening condition seek medical advice before thinking about doing anything seriously challenging, I have to say that. Your body is capable of more than you realise for sure, though everyone has their own limits. If you choose to push your limits do it in a way that will leave you breathing, alive and capable of enjoying life thereafter.

Do push the limits though. The more you do this, the more often you do it too, the more you will realise you have a greater ability to achieve your goals and shape your world in the way you wish to. This is something which ripples through your entire life. If you can push yourself further here, and achieve more for it, you can push more in another place and achieve more there too.

The limitations you experience are the ones you accept. They come from the way you interpret experience, from people around you, from society and from other places too. Limitations are rarely where we think they are, more often than not there is plenty more scope than we believed. A little more effort and we can exceed what were believed to be the limits. Do that once and you can do it again. Keep doing it. Sports stars do it regularly, breaking personal bests and previous records. The human body has changed little in the last hundred years, yet what is possible on the field has changed a lot. Know this and know that you can do more than you thought.

Never give up. There is always opportunity for success. Regardless of what they were doing there was some barrier to push through, the trick is keeping yourself through that barrier, and knowing you can do it. When you remove the limitations from your mind the physical limitations shift too. So draw from the stories of these inspiring people of physical endurance and give yourself fuel for whatever challenges you are facing.