Jocko Podcast - Jocko Underground: Tighten Up Your Life.

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

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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 order. Guidance and advice. Check. For the people from Jock. 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 1,600, sometimes until 1,700, Monday to Friday, 25-minute drive. And I have my Police Reserve Academy every Wednesday and Thursday from 1,800 to 2,200, and a 45-minute drive home from there. I also have Academy every Saturday from 0,600 to 1700.

Okay, before I join the Academy, I would wake up at 430 every day and hit the gym. from 5 a.m. to 6.30 daily. Hell yeah. Not 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 lips in. 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? Well, just curious. Not for years. Not for a year. Yeah.

But yeah, yeah, stuff where you get like basically stuff has to go on hold. And you 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 very limited sleep the whole nine yards. 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, you're going to be, you just have to hold your breath. Yeah, fully.

Because that's what you're doing. And I was the Admiral's aide. I was the Admiral's aide for 13 months. Breathhold. Yeah. Like, you're not, you don't get to do what you want to do. You're going to have to, some stuff's going to get sacrificed. Right.

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. Yeah. And that's what you're doing right now. You're making some sacrifices. I will say, you know, I like to see the, I like to see the, I like to see the, I like to see the space. I like to see what we can make happen here.

If you work from 0-800 to 1,600 day, every day, what time is lunch? And what are you doing for lunch? You know what I'm saying? I did not and have really not ever been a, okay, it's a lunchtime guy. You know what I mean? I understand. 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. 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 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. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I mean, depending on the temperature. Yeah, that's what I mean, depends on who you are.

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? 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 enough 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? 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 it like fast like explosive movement you see what I'm saying right so maybe you could fill some of that in there um another thing is you're working out from 0500 to 0 630 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, like a workout workout workout.

You're sitting there, your cruise and your kids are in the thing. Never. What's the longest? Like a regular, yeah, hour and a half. 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 want to go over here and do like, oh, I'm going to do some cardio.

or something. A 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 of 40. Okay. All right. Okay.

So, but hour and a half, you can tighten it up, though. You can definitely tighten it up to 45 minutes. 100%, yes. 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 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. 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, mokes. 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, hour, two hours, 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, months, right?

You took a month to figure out how much it sucked. You took a month ago, I'm going to 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 with a good job. Outstanding. Keep getting after, man.

Yeah, that's a big one. 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, he's got his transit time. He's got a lot going on, man.

For sure, but it's one of you, you know, I'm like 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.

See what I'm saying? The if you take for real inventory of stuff. You're starting to you're 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 that like all the way down to this isn't sound crazy but you'd be surprised how significant this is even 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 yeah I mean 45

man 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 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 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 do it a workout quick workout beforehand.

It was my normal workout, but I was just like I had to take inventory of the time. You hustled. 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, Brian. Yeah. You can make it. Yeah. In the amount of time if you really need to. It's almost guaranteed. You can. Yeah.

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