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- 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 what we're doing. - Guidance and advice. - Check. - For the people from Jocko. - 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 8:00 AM 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. 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?
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 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. But yeah, yeah. Stuff where you get like basically stuff has to go on hold and you'd probably find this more often than you think a lot of times. New baby, that's a sprint. That's a version of it. 100%. Yeah, yeah. Six months, nine months, something like that. Yeah. I mean, even the first month might be, you know, like nine months.
very limited sleep the whole nine yards. So it's going to be different. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's kind of like, uh,
Being in a SEAL platoon like a certain part of the workup. Yeah, you're gonna be you just have to hold your breath Yeah, fully that's what you're doing. I was the Admiral's aide. I was the Admiral's aide for 13 months breath hold Yeah, 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 your things that are worthwhile you have to make sacrifice to achieve them Yeah, and that's what you're doing right now. You're making some sacrifices and
Will say I see you I you know I like to see the I like to see the space Let's see what we can make happen here If you work from 0 800 to 1600 debt every day what times lunch and what are you doing for lunch? You know what I'm saying? I I did not and have really not ever been a okay. It's lunchtime guy. No, you know what I mean? It'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 one 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. 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 40 minute PT, right? So what can you fill in there? Maybe you can fill it. 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. That's what I'm saying. Depends on who you are and where you are. 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. To sweat, like 100? Yeah. Well, my guess is, Oslim 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? Yeah.
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 three each side. Hard as like fast, like explosive movement. You see what I'm saying, right? So maybe you could fill some of that in there. Another thing is you're working out from 0500 to 0630. 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 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 hour and a like a regular yeah hour and a half okay like the longest usually workout 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 oh and do some cardio or something
little 40 minute on the rower oh yeah yeah i remember back in the day i do a 30 minute run then lift so that's still like an 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 the next day you're doing pull. Like, you see what I'm saying? So you can get a good split going. 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. Right.
And then Sunday, early Sunday morning, I'm going to 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 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 advise...
Full body destruction on Sundays, you know our two hours hour and a half two hours to get 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 ten more months, right? Yes, 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 and
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'll be good to go, man. 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 it, man. That's good. That's a big one. The workout thing. 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. Yeah, transit time. He's got a lot going on, man. For sure, but it's one of... Bro, you're not... 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 time. You see what I'm saying? The...
If you take for real inventory of stuff. You're starting to, 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 is going to 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 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, bro. I mean, 45 minutes, I mean, it depends on the workout. But like, yeah, 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 take 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 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 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. Yeah.
Yeah, you can make it. Yeah in the amount of time if you really need almost guarantee you can yeah Unless you're like these freaking 12 14 hour day workers, then you got the kids and you know like that So that is a little excerpt of what we are doing on the Jocko underground podcast So if you want to continue to listen go to Jocko underground calm and subscribe and we're doing this We're doing this to mitigate
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