Jocko Underground: Tighten Up Your Life.

This is the Jocko underground podcast number 161 sitting here with echo Charles or we will be Answering questions and providing various courses of actions that you can take To get you on the path to what we're doing. Guidance and advice. Check. For the people from Junk. Indeed. Let's get into it. 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. Hell yeah. That 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?

Check. Oh, so he's actually not hitting the gym right now. Sounds like he's not waking up early. Before the academy. He's not getting his lifting. Well, a couple of things here. First of all, it's going to be a rough year. You ever had one of those? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sprint. We call them sprints. What did you have to sprint for? Just curious. Not for years. Not for a year. Okay, yeah. But...

Yeah, yeah stuff where you get like basically stuff has to go on hold And you'd 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 hundred percent. Yeah, yeah six months nine months something like that Yeah, I mean even the first month might be You know, like very limited sleep, the whole nine yards. It's going to be different. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's kind of like being in a SEAL platoon, like a certain part of the workup.

You just have to hold your breath. Because that's what you're doing. When I was the Admiral's aide, I was the Admiral's aide for 13 months. Breath hold. You don't get to do what you want to do. Some stuff's going to get sacrificed. So I think it's... It's important that this guy your things that are worthwhile you have to make sacrifice to achieve them And that's what you're doing right now. You're making some sacrifices

I will say I like to see the space. I like to see what we can make happen here. If you work from 0800 to 1600 every day, what time is lunch? And what are you doing for lunch? You know I'm saying I I did not and have really not ever Been up. Okay. It's lunchtime guy You know what I mean? He's like, I will eat while I'm working. I will eat. There's, you know, a time between, sometime between 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock.

If I'm going to eat some lunch, may or may not eat lunch in the first place, but if I'm going to eat lunch, I can eat it while someone's sitting there talking to me, while I'm sitting in a meet. 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 40-minute PT. 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 14 to 20 burpees and not sweat Hmm You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I mean depending on the temperature. Yeah Yeah, and also I mean maybe it's 10, 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 because how many how many do you have to do? Oh, yeah to sweat a sweat like a hundred Well, my guess is Muslim is not a single person. There's probably somebody that can do pull-ups until they're sweating, but that's going to be hard. It's going to be very hard to do, especially if you're doing like dead hang, solid pull-ups.

You're not going to be in an 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? Maybe get a kettlebell in there do a kettlebell snatch one each arm Maybe you get a nice little like a 32 in there do do three each side

Hard is like fast like explosive movement. You see what I'm saying, right? Yeah, so maybe you could fill some of that in there Another thing is you're working out from zero five hundred to zero six thirty. That's an hour and a half 1.5 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

No. Never? Never. Not even close. So like a workout workout? What about you're sitting there, you're cruising, your kids are in the thing? No. Never. What's the longest? Sorry, bro. Hour and a half. Like a regular hour and a half. Okay, like the longest you shouldn't work out takes one hour one hour five minutes Yeah, but you ever do like all right now I'm done with that so I'm gonna go over here and do like I'm gonna do some cardio or something Little 40 minute on the rower

Yeah, I remember back in the day. I do a 30-minute run then lift. So that's still like hour 40. All right. Okay, so but hour and a half you can tighten it up though you definitely tighten it up to 45 minutes 100 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 30 minutes you can get a damn good workout in 30 minutes

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 I'm saying so you can get a good split going Yeah 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. And then...

Sunday early Sunday morning. I'm gonna throw this out there full body destruction 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 because 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 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 Full-body destruction on Sundays, you know our two hours the hour and a half two hours

to getting it done. Man test. And I think if you do these things that we're talking about, look, it's a year. Probably by the time you get this question back, it's only 10 more months, right? You took a month to figure out how much it sucked. Like, took a month to go, 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. You'll be a and you'll be a reserve police officer man. That's awesome with an awesome kid and wife With a good job Outstanding keep getting after man yeah that's a big one the the workout thing you know if we still want to do that the 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.

Yeah, but he's got his transit time. He's got a lot going on, man. For sure, but it's one of you. You have no right to call this dude out. I'm not getting after it, bro. Or I have all the right because I'm a guy who over-indexes on freaking shuffling time to make things. You see what I'm saying?

If you take for real inventory of stuff. In your own mind, you're replaying what you said a little bit. 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 the math when you're like, hey, how much time do you spend? 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 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. I want to have workout, bro. I don't know. I mean, 45 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 50 minutes, 50 minutes, and if you're pressed for time, but you can afford 50 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 really take honest inventory of. Like, bro, what are we doing on these little times off? Because, like, in fact, I know I did this today. I had to take 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. It was dilly dally. I couldn't like. You hustled.

yeah i couldn't change my playlist in between just to get the right you know like i was like hey we're 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 yeah you can make it Yeah, in the amount of time if you really know almost guaranteed you can't yeah, unless you're like these freaking 12 14 hour day workers, then you got the kids and you know like that So

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