Mike Melton's company has a fitness-first standard where team members work out before their workday starts, not as a mandate but as a priority. He points to NASCAR, basketball, and football teams as examples of high performers who build rigorous training into their culture.
Somebody just asked me, why do I make my team work out before we work? Well, the thing is, I don't make anybody do anything. That's just a standard that we have in our company. Fitness is always going to come first. It's changed my life, and I'm changing lives as we go. So for anybody that's out there who says, oh, well, you don't need to train, well, let me ask you, does the NASCAR team, do they go into their fitness? Yes. Does top-level basketball teams get fit? Yes. What about football teams? Do they train? Yes. There's your answer.
