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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 161, sitting here with Echo Charles, where we will be answering questions and providing various courses of actions that you can take to get you on the path to order.

• 0:17Speaker 01

  Guidance and advice.

• 0:18Jocko Willink?

  Check.

• 0:19Speaker 01

  For the people from Jocko.

• 0:20Jocko Willink?

  Indeed. Let's get into it.

• 0:23Speaker 01

  All right. Yeah. First question. I'm having a rough time figuring out how to schedule my life. I have a nine month old daughter at home that my beautiful wife helps with. I work in my office from 8 a.m. to 1600, sometimes until 1700, Monday to Friday, 25 minute drive. And I have my Police Reserve Academy every Wednesday and Thursday from 1800 to 2200 and a 45 minute drive home from there. I also have Academy every Saturday from 0600 to 1700. Okay. Before I joined the Academy, I would wake up at 4:30 every day and hit the gym from 5 a.m. to 6:30 daily.

• 1:03Jocko Willink?

  Hell, yeah.

• 1:04Speaker 01

  Early morning. I want to make sure I'm taking care of myself physically while also spending time with my family every night that I can. The Academy is a year long and then I can go back to normal. Any guidance?

• 1:18Jocko Willink?

  Check. Oh, so he's actually not hitting the gym right now. Sounds like he's not waking up early.

• 1:22Speaker 01

  Before the Academy.

• 1:23Jocko Willink?

  He's not getting his lifts in. Well, a couple of things here. First of all, it's gonna be a rough year. You ever had one of those?

• 1:29Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sprint. We call them sprints.

• 1:31Jocko Willink?

  What did you have to sprint for? Just curious.

• 1:34Speaker 01

  Not for years, not for a year.

• 1:36Jocko Willink?

  Yeah.

• 1:37Speaker 01

  But yeah, yeah. Stuff where you get like basically stuff has to go on hold and you probably find this is more often than you think a lot of times. New baby, that's a sprint. That's a version of it.

• 1:47Jocko Willink?

  Hundred percent.

• 1:48Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:48Jocko Willink?

  Six months, nine months, something like that.

• 1:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:51Jocko Willink?

  I mean, even the first month might be, you know, like very limited sleep, the whole nine yards.

• 1:56Speaker 01

  It's gonna be different. Yeah, exactly.

• 1:57Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, it's kind of like being in a SEAL platoon, like a certain part of the workup.

• 2:03Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:03Jocko Willink?

  You're gonna be, you just have to hold your breath.

• 2:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, fully.

• 2:06Jocko Willink?

  Cause that's what you're doing. When I was the Admiral's aide, I was the Admiral's aide for 13 months, breath hold.

• 2:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:11Jocko Willink?

  Like you're not, you don't get to do what you want to do. You're gonna have to, some stuff's gonna get sacrificed. So I think it's, it's important that this guy, you're, things that are worthwhile, you have to make sacrifice to achieve them.

• 2:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:23Jocko Willink?

  And that's what you're doing right now. You're making some sacrifices. I will say, I see, I, you know, I like to see the, I like to see the space. Let's see what we can make happen here. Uh, if you work from zero eight hundred to sixteen hundred day, every day, what time is lunch? And what are you doing for lunch?

• 2:40Jocko Willink?

  You know what I'm saying? I, I did not, and have really not ever been a, okay, it's lunchtime guy. You know what I mean?

• 2:51Speaker 01

  I understand.

• 2:52Jocko Willink?

  It's like, I will eat while I'm working. I will eat. There's, you know, a time between, some time between eleven o'clock and one o'clock. If I'm gonna eat some lunch, may or may not eat lunch in the first place, but if I'm gonna eat lunch, I can eat it. While someone's sitting there talking to me, while I'm sitting in a meet, like, we can make that happen. So, if you can do that, guess what you might be able to do? Sneak out for a little bit of forty minute P T, right? So, what can you fill in there? Maybe you can fill in, maybe you can make something happen. Get some kind of a decent workout. Maybe you can do some no sweat workouts, which is something I've been exploring lately. Which is, you know, you can do fourteen to twenty burpees and not sweat.

• 3:39Jocko Willink?

  You, you know what I'm saying?

• 3:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:41Jocko Willink?

  I mean, depending on the temperature.

• 3:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's what's like, depends on who you are.

• 3:44Jocko Willink?

  And, and yeah, and also, I mean, maybe it's ten, but that's okay. You can do, you can definitely do one set of pull-ups and not sweat. I bet you there's not a single person in the whole world that can do one set of pull-ups and be sweating at the end of it. Cause how many, how many do you have to do?

• 4:00Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, for the sweat.

• 4:01Jocko Willink?

  To sweat, like a hundred? Well, my, my guess is, my, my limit is not, not a single person. There's probably somebody that can do pull-ups until they're sweating. But that's gonna be hard. It's gonna be very hard to do, especially if you're doing like dead hang, solid pull-ups. You're not gonna be in a athletic sweat when you're done. So you put a pull-up bar in your office, all of a sudden, you're walking, you know, you're getting up to go to the copy machine, banging out a set of eight. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Maybe get a kettlebell in there. Do a kettlebell snatch, one each arm. Maybe you get a nice little like a thirty two in there. Do do three each side. Hard is like fast, like explosive movement. You see what I'm saying, right?

• 4:45Jocko Willink?

  So maybe you could fill some of that in there. Um, another thing is you're working out from zero five hundred to zero six thirty. That's an hour and a half, one point five hours to do your workout. You can be more efficient than that for a year. Like, look, it's ideal. Hey, we want to be working out for four hours. You know, I know you don't, but like you do. You do sometimes, though, you work out for four hours, right? Three hours.

• 5:07Speaker 01

  No.

• 5:07Jocko Willink?

  Never?

• 5:08Speaker 01

  Never, not even close. So the like a

• 5:10Jocko Willink?

  What about you're sitting there, you're cruising, your kids are in the thing?

• 5:14Speaker 01

  Never.

• 5:15Jocko Willink?

  What's the longest?

• 5:16Speaker 01

  Hour and a, like a regular, yeah, hour and a half.

• 5:19Jocko Willink?

  Okay.

• 5:19Speaker 01

  Like the longest, usually workout takes one hour, one hour, five minutes.

• 5:22Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, but you ever do like, all right, now I'm done with that. So I'm gonna go over here and do like, oh, I'm gonna do some cardio or something. Little forty minute on the rower.

• 5:30Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember back in the day I do a thirty minute run then lift. So that's still like an hour forty.

• 5:36Jocko Willink?

  All right. Okay. So but hour and a half, you can tighten it up, though. You definitely tighten it up to forty five minutes.

• 5:42Speaker 01

  Hundred percent.

• 5:42Jocko Willink?

  Okay, so maybe make the workouts a little bit quicker during this year period. You're not going to get the hour and a half in the morning, but maybe just maybe you get thirty minutes. You can get a damn good workout in thirty minutes.

• 5:55Jocko Willink?

  And and you can mix it up so you maintain, right? So maybe you're just like lifting one day, just sprinting another day. Like lift lower body, do squats, but then the next day you're going for a run, but then the next day you're doing pull. Like, you see what I'm saying? So you can make, get a good split going.

• 6:12Jocko Willink?

  Maybe, you know, you get some of those shorter workouts and then you take Wednesday and Thursday off from training, from lifting, because those are the days that you have the academy.

• 6:24Jocko Willink?

  And then Sunday, early Sunday morning, I'm gonna throw this out there. Full body destruction.

• 6:32Jocko Willink?

  You know what I'm saying? Full body destruction with full like active rest recovery, hanging with the fam steak, protein shakes, mulks. You see what I'm saying? Sunday, make it the day. When I, when I used to train at Fabio Santos, he was closed on Sundays and I like begged him to open on Sundays and he finally did. Cause I was like, hey, we all want to train on Sunday. We have to work during the week. For him, he's working during the week, train, uh, teaching Sunday, he wants Sunday off. So I get it. But he did end up giving us open mats on Sunday, so I would, I would, I would advise

• 7:12Jocko Willink?

  full body destruction on Sundays, you know, hour, two hours, hour and a half, two hours. Getting it done. Man test. And I think if you do these things that we're talking about, look, it's a year. You probably by the time you get this question back, it's only 10 more months, right? You, you took a month to figure out how much it sucked. You, you wrote, you like took a month ago, I'm gonna, I'm gonna write Jocko and Echo and see what up. Then you got it to us, it's been another two weeks since we, so you probably only have nine and a half months left of this. You got this. Embrace it. Do what you can. Don't slack off completely, keep your diet in check. You'd be good to go, man. And you'll be a, and you'll be a reserve police officer, man, that's awesome. With an awesome kid and wife.

• 7:58Jocko Willink?

  With a good job.

• 8:00Jocko Willink?

  Outstanding. Keep getting after it, man.

• 8:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's a big one, the, the workout thing, you know, if we still want to do that, the,

• 8:08Speaker 01

  I think a lot of this too is, this doesn't seem that crazy in my opinion. Like this, it's two days a week at the academy, right, Wednesday and Thursday.

• 8:17Jocko Willink?

  Yeah, but he's got his transit time, he's got a lot going on, man.

• 8:20Speaker 01

  For sure, but it's one of,

• 8:22Jocko Willink?

  You're not, you have no like right to call this dude out, I'm not getting after it, bro.

• 8:26Speaker 01

  Or I have all the right, because I'm a guy who over indexes on freaking shuffling time to make time. You see what I'm saying? Or the, If you if you take for real inventory of stuff.

• 8:38Jocko Willink?

  You're starting, you're in your own mind, you're replaying what you said a little bit.

• 8:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, and freaking confirming it, double confirming it, actually. If you take inventory and actually you taught me this, if you take for real inventory and then you can just do do the math. When you're like, hey, how much time do you spend that like all the way down to this doesn't sound crazy, but you'd be surprised how significant this is. Even the the amount of minutes that you take extra in the bathroom because you're on the phone or this kind of stuff. It's like, bro, those minutes add up and even and and this hour and a half workout or whatever I will, I mean, I don't know the workout because all workouts have different goals, you know, so I don't know, but that's another one to reconsider hour and a half workout, bro, I don't know, man. I mean, forty five minutes, it depends on the workout, but like, yeah, if you're if if you're going for a freaking sick workout, if you do it fifty fifty minutes, fifty minutes.

• 9:29Speaker 01

  And if you're pressed for time, but you can afford fifty minutes, you got a full workout. This is not a shortened workout, in my opinion, depends on the workout, obviously. But yeah, again, the point I'm making is take really take honest inventory of like, bro, what what are we doing on these little times off? Because like, in fact, I know I did this today, I had to take my some people to the airport today. So I decided to do a workout, quick workout beforehand. It was my normal workout, but I was just like, I had to take inventory of the time, I could dilly dally, I couldn't like.

• 10:00Jocko Willink?

  You hustled.

• 10:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, I couldn't change my playlist in between just to get the right, you know, like, I was like, hey, we were doing this, we're doing this, and I got the full full workout in way less time as normal. So the point there is, bro, you can make it.

• 10:13Jocko Willink?

  Yeah.

• 10:13Speaker 01

  In the amount of time, if you really need to.

• 10:16Jocko Willink?

  Almost guaranteed.

• 10:17Speaker 01

  You can, yeah, unless you're like these freaking twelve fourteen hour day workers, then you got the kids and you know, like that.

• 10:23Jocko Willink?

  So that is a little excerpt of what we are doing on the Jocko Underground podcast. So if you want to continue to listen.

• 10:33Jocko Willink?

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• 11:18Jocko Willink?

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