Kettlebells and Convict Conditioning
in an Afghan prison,
interview, Rob Langdon
By Adrienne Harvey, SrPCC, RKC-TL, CK-FMS
Dragon Door: Before you were in the Army, did you have an athletic or sports background?
Rob Langdon: No, not at all. Where I grew up was essentially a cattle station in the middle of the desert in Australia.
My family and a few other people used to work there during the 70s-80s, so for fun we rode horses, motorbikes, and I learned to drive and shoot guns.
I used to walk everywhere and was a lot fitter than most people my age when I went to school.
I never did any team sports, since I didn’t grow up with that, but I understood fitness—and improving the machine—in general.
Dragon Door: When did you decide to join the Army?
Rob Langdon: My Mom's side of the family is all ex-military, she was Air Force and her Dad fought in World War II. Her sisters were also in the Navy.
The military was always in the cards.
When I finally went to school, it was...read complete interview