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Yes . To be honest , if you'd asked me

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at 20 , if I thought I'd be doing this

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at 40 , probably not to this level .

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This is weight lifting something senior

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Master sergeant troy Saunders has been

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doing for a long time , Most of three

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decades since I was roughly 10 years

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old . When , shortly after the 1976

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Olympics , I decided , Hey , that's

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what I want to do with a larger

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emphasis on airman's physical fitness .

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Most of the force make their way to the

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gym at least three times a week .

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Something Saunders is a big proponent

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of , and I think it's a good thing

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because of anything . People will get

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out of this is when they leave their

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for whether it's four or 30 years .

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They probably develop some good habits

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that will help them for the rest of

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their life . He works out five days a

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week running and lifting . Cool thing

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about doing something like this . You

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don't have to do a lot of those with

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all that time at the gym . You think

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he'd have his own cot in the back ?

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It's probably , uh , more than just , I

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would say a big part of life fitness

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woven into a 24 year career that shows

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no signs of stopping ages in the factor

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as much as uh , is that drive to be

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healthy to be fit and to succeed and

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sergeant Saunders just keeps going .

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All of that work has propelled him to

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13 weightlifting championships ,

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including six american and nine

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military power lift records . In my

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case , I really enjoy the rewards of

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you see from working out something

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about strength building sports , like

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power lifting , you actually see

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numbers 51 plus 45 , that's 5 96

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numbers that really stack up . At the

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end of the day , a lot of people ask me ,

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what's it take to get to this level ? I

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say 15 , 20 years , you know , Yeah ,

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Staff Sergeant Trevor Pedro , Ramstein

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Air Base Germany .