PRECERPT from Grandma's Ninja Training Diary: Nature's Ninja Course – The Hill, The Steps, The Trash, and the Kid
a precerpt (excerpt prior to publication) from Grandma's Ninja Training Diary (Leaver and Renz) You don’t need a fancy obstacle course or a gym full of equipment to train like a Ninja. Sometimes, the best training obstacles weren’t built by man—they were just waiting for someone stubborn enough to use them. Case in point: my house. It sits proudly at the top of a hill roughly the length of a football field, steep enough to make newcomers pause and reassess their life choices. I climb that hill daily and then top it off with 17 steps to get inside the house. That’s my warm-up. No treadmill on Earth can match the satisfaction of reaching the top and knowing you earned every breath. But wait, it gets better. Once a week, I wrangle three giant bins—trash, yard waste, recycling—and drag them to the bottom of the hill. It's a downhill sled-push simulator on the way down and a full-body sled pull on the way up, minus the sled and with bonus smells. That right there is strength, ca...