Rebecca Rouse trains in a two-car garage outside Dallas with the 75-year-old godfather of Texas weightlifting, a man who told her to go away when she first showed up. She kept coming back. A decade of gymnastics, a national ranking on the barbell, and one Instagram message from the Brigade later, she is racing head-to-head in a team sport for the first time in her life.

“Suffering is oftentimes inevitable, but it’s what we do with that suffering that will make a difference.”

Rebecca Rouse

Inside Spoon Barbell, the diagnosis at 20 that ended her military plans, and the foundation she built for injured veterans. 10 minutes.