Back in the day when I was in the (Dutch) Navy, at one point we had a special forces team on board. They quite literally spent 8 hours per day in the gym, 8 hou

Back in the day when I was in the (Dutch) Navy, at one point we had a special forces team on board. They quite literally spent 8 hours per day in the gym, 8 hours per day doing gunnery and/or tactical exercises and divided the remaining 8 hours between sleeping, eating and showering. Every day was the same, except that possibly the individual exercises differed. All of the soldiers on that team were focused on their job to a completely unhealthy degree, except of course that in their line of work not being focused like that can be way more unhealthy (ie, it directly leads to getting shot). It is a fascinating lifestyle and I'm glad that some people are willing to do it, but I'm also glad that my own life is not like that. Apparently the suicide rate of retired special forces soldiers is several times higher than the baseline because if you leave (and sooner or later everyone gets too old and slow to keep up the lifestyle), almost everything you lived for is now gone.