The Tim Ferriss Show - #275: Discipline Equals Freedom -- Jocko Willink

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Starting point is 00:03:28 And I'm doing some talking because right now, Mr. Tim Ferriss can't talk to you himself because he is in a a silent retreat where he's remaining in complete silence for I think 10 days and it's not just silence it's actually also no books no computers no phones obviously it's just pure silence alone with your. Not exactly what I would want to do, but it sounds kind of crazy and it sounds like something Tim Ferriss would do. But in the meantime, like I said, I am here to guest host this show, which is awesome. I appreciate that opportunity and thanks to Tim Ferriss for giving me that opportunity. Now, a little bit about my background. First, if you want to know about me, one of the best places to find out about me is actually on this podcast as well. Tim Ferriss, episode number 107.

Starting point is 00:04:21 And that was released in September of 2015. And that was the first time I was ever interviewed really for anything and I had been in the SEAL teams for 20 years. I'd never done any interview. I never had any social media didn't have a website I really didn't exist in the public eye at all and So my background is that I grew up in a small New England town. I enlisted in the Navy after high school. I went through bootcamp. I went to SEAL training. I spent some time at SEAL team one in the nineties and eventually got picked up for a commissioning program, which meant I was going to become an officer in the SEAL teams and move into a leadership position. And eventually, once I did that, the war started in September, September 11th, 2001.

Starting point is 00:05:14 And from there, I deployed to Iraq as a SEAL platoon commander and then as a SEAL task unit commander. When I was a task unit commander, I fought in the Battle of Ramadi, Ramadi, Iraq, the capital of Al-Anbar province, and very tough fighting in incredible effort by the soldiers and Marines on the ground, and also the guys that were with me as well from my SEAL task unit, and ended up being the most highly decorated special operations unit from the Iraq war and incredible sacrifices were made for that victory. And when I got back from that deployment to Iraq, I took over the training for the West coast SEAL teams. And the training that I took over isn't the training where you've got the boat on your head or you're carrying the logs

Starting point is 00:06:06 around or you're doing a bunch of push-ups and pull-ups and runs and swims it's the the real training where SEALs actually learn to be SEALs to shoot move and communicate to fire maneuver to close with and destroy the enemy and they learn about combat leadership and I did that for my last few years in the SEAL teams taught that. And then I retired in 2010. And when I did that, I started working with companies with businesses and helping out with their leadership and their management. And that developed into a leadership and management consulting company, which is called Echelon Front that I run with my buddy and former teammate, Leif Babin, who was one of the platoon commanders that worked for me in the Battle of Ramadi. And we wrote a book together, which was called Extreme Ownership.

Starting point is 00:06:58 And that is how I ended up being on Tim's podcast for the first time. We had some mutual friends, Kirk Parsley and Dr. Peter Atiyah, and they made the intro. And that's how I ended up on this of SEALs. And now we're out there teaching these leadership principles to businesses and teams and organizations throughout the civilian world and also in law enforcement, in fire departments, in any type of organization. So that's what we're doing now. And as that book was launching, like I said, I went on Tim's podcast. It was awesome. And when we got done with that podcast, when Tim pressed stop on the recorder, he said, you should really have your own podcast. And I kind of, you know, I listened to him, but I had a bunch of stuff going on. The book was coming out and whatnot. And then Joe Rogan heard that podcast and asked me to come on his podcast.

Starting point is 00:08:06 And in the middle of that podcast, Joe Rogan said, you should have your own podcast. So I guess when Tim Ferriss and Joe Rogan tell you, you should have your own podcast, then you should listen. And I did. And so I started my own podcast, which is called Jocko podcast. And really it's a podcast about human nature and it's human nature as viewed through the lens of war and other human struggles. And it's definitely focused on leadership, but it also often reveals the dark side of mankind and the podcast can get pretty heavy and pretty dark, but it's not all like that. And I also, you know, as we did the podcast, as I continue to put it out there, I also talked about all kinds of other things about life and, and how I live about surfing and about jujitsu and about working out and about eating and how I live about surfing and about jujitsu and about working

Starting point is 00:09:06 out and about eating and how I eat and sleeping and how I sleep and how to wake up earlier and how to overcome procrastination and how to accomplish goals and how to get the most out of life and all those kinds of things. You're basic winning. And in there, I wrote a book for kids and a book that I wrote for kids. It's called way of the warrior kid And it's you know, it's about a kid that's having a tough time at school He didn't know how to couldn't do any pull-ups and he didn't know his times tables So he kind of felt stupid and he didn't know how to swim because he was afraid of the water and he was getting picked on at school and the last day of school everything kind of comes crashing down on him and

Starting point is 00:09:46 He goes home all sad But when he gets home He remembers that his uncle is coming to stay with him for the summer and his uncle was a seal in the SEAL teams and so his uncle Finds out what these problems are that the kid is suffering through and says look Oh, you can't, you can't swim. You don't know how to do any pull-ups or you can't do any pull-ups. You don't know your timetables. You're getting picked on at school. We can handle those problems. So they go on a

Starting point is 00:10:12 little journey and the uncle, uncle Jake teaches young Mark how to overcome all these challenges. And so that book came out and, but people were asking for sort of details on the aspect of my life about, you know, not about the leadership stuff, but about my sort of kind of operating system. And so eventually I put that down kind of my mode of living into the way I live. And this book is called discipline equals freedom field manual. And it just came out October 17th. And that's how I ended up doing this podcast for Tim. Cause like I said, Tim is, I guess, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you're looking at it, Tim is not allowed to talk right now. And so he, but he had read the book just before he went into his period of silence and he wanted me to come on while he was not able to speak and talk about some of the high points that

Starting point is 00:11:14 might he that he thought would be a useful introduction to people that listen to his podcast so that's why I'm here if you you were expecting Tim, I apologize. I know that's always a bummer when you're expecting to have that person that you, you know, and you're, you're anticipating hearing their voice. And then it turns out not to be that person. So if you've made it this far, thank you. And here we go. The book is broken into two sections. The first section is called thoughts, and the second section is called actions. And the thoughts section is about, well, basically it's what goes through my head. It's how I view and how I think about things. And Tim wanted me to focus on the actions part, but for one example of what is in the thoughts category, I'm going to the book here. This is directly from the book, Discipline Equals Freedom, field manual. Here we go. People want to know how to stop laziness. They want to know how to stop procrastination. They have an idea in their head, maybe even a vision, but they don't know where to

Starting point is 00:12:35 start. So they ask and they say, where do I start? When is the best time to start? And I have a simple answer. Here and now. That's it. You want to improve? You want to get better? You want to get on a workout program or a clean diet or start a new business? You want to write a book or make a movie or build a house or a computer or an app? Where do you start? You start an app. Where do you start?

Starting point is 00:13:06 You start right here. When do you start? You start right now. You initiate action. You go. Here is the reality. That idea isn't going to execute itself. That book isn't going to write itself. Those weights out in the gym,

Starting point is 00:13:24 they aren't going to move themselves. You have to do it and you have to do it now. So stop thinking about it. Stop dreaming about it. Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it. Start doing it. Take that first step and make it happen. Get after it here and now. So that's the kind of things that are in the book, the first part of the book, which again is called thoughts.

Starting point is 00:14:06 And like I said, the second part is what I actually do to implement those thoughts into my life. And of course, Tim being Mr. Pragmatic, how do we get to it? How do we make it happen? He asked me to detail some of those for you. And one of the things that he wanted me to talk about was early morning training and what role getting up early, cause I get up early in the morning, what role that plays in my life and why I kind of maintain that and have maintained that for a long time. And there's one section that talks about kind of a little psychological edge that I believe the waking up early in the morning gives anyone that wakes up early in the morning. So here's a little chunk of the book where I talk

Starting point is 00:14:59 about that psychological edge. There are a slew of psychological advantages that come from early morning physical training. First, there is a psychological win over the enemy. Knowing that you are working harder than your adversaries gives you an advantage. It gives you confidence that you can overcome them in battle another advantage to waking up early and working out hard is that it demands discipline to do both now some scientists have claimed that discipline dissipates the more it is used that willpower is

Starting point is 00:15:40 a finite resource that is reduced every time it is used throughout the day. This is wrong. That does not happen. To the contrary, I believe, and studies have shown, that discipline and willpower do not go down as they are called into action. They actually get stronger. This is obvious if you actually try the experiment yourself before you go to bed plan what workout you're going to do in the morning stage your workout clothes so you don't even have to think about them when you get up

Starting point is 00:16:16 write down a list of things you need to accomplish the next day. Set your alarm clock for 4.30 a.m. and go to sleep. When the alarm clock goes off, get up. Put on your pre-staged clothes, brush your teeth, and go get your workout on hard. Get done, shower, get dressed, and begin to crush the lists of tasks you made for the day. When it's time for breakfast, see what happens. You won't want to eat junk. You won't want that disgusting donut. You'll want some eggs and bacon. And that will happen at lunch, too.

Starting point is 00:17:02 You're feeling good, energized. You don't want to eat that worthless calories of pizza or french fries you want fuel good fuel to rebuild your body clean fuel that keeps your mind sharp when you're on the path you want to stay on the path unfortunately the opposite is also true once you step off the path. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true. Once you step off the path, you tend to stray far. When you don't prepare what you need to do the next day, when you sleep in and then skip your workout and you don't start attacking the tasks you have because you didn't write them down the night before, that is when you make bad decisions that is when your will and discipline fail you figure you might as well have that donut have that donut for breakfast and once you've

Starting point is 00:17:54 done that might as well put down four or five pieces of pizza for lunch it doesn't matter anymore you're off the path and that is a disaster Your will didn't break it never showed up in the first place So get on the path of discipline and stay on the path Discipline begets discipline will propagates more will Hold the line across the line and Victory will be yours

Starting point is 00:18:34 So that's why I wake up early in the morning and work out and Also in the book I talked about how you actually start getting up early in the morning because this is a big challenge for a lot of people I know it I get it and there's a bunch of ways to do this and one of the most important things to allow you to get up early in the morning is to go to bed earlier but

Starting point is 00:19:04 going to bed earlier is also a challenge and again I talk about this in the book But how do you how what's the most important thing to to? put into place to go to bed earlier is Number one you want to be tired When you get to the end of the day you want to be tired. That's how you get to go to bed earlier number two Turn off the internet because they've got these little people that are programming

Starting point is 00:19:28 things into the interwebs that are truly just meant to get you to click one more time just click one more time and watch one more one more video One more stupid video. That's not getting you anything not improving you in any way, so Turn off the internet and if you need to do something then read a book pick up a book and read a book And the most important thing to Allow you to go to bed earlier the most important thing you can do is actually get up earlier Right, that's what happens you when you get up earlier Well, then you're more tired by the end of the day and then you can go to sleep and that that gets you in the right pattern

Starting point is 00:20:16 So the way you start getting The way you start going to bed earlier is by getting up earlier And again, I detail this and the way that pattern kind of unfolds itself in the book. Now, another thing that Tim wanted me to hit on was my actual workouts. Like what my workouts look like from week to week. And I'll say this, I have a bunch of a bunch of kind of standard workouts that I use. And they may vary a little bit depending on what I'm feeling like or what is needed. Or maybe I got some little injury that I have to cover up or, or maybe I'm really tired from some other workout that I did. So I need to make an adjustment or maybe I haven't worked out in a few days. So I'm going to go even harder. So there's little adjustments that go by. And, and I actually took a lot of these standard workouts that I have and I put them into the book. Again, this is something that people really wanted to hear from me what my workouts actually were. And so I put them in there and, and they go

Starting point is 00:21:26 from the beginner level, from, from people that really haven't worked out before, all the way to intermediate, all the way up to advanced. And, and I've been able to, I actually own a gym in California, a big mixed martial arts gym, but we've got all kinds of, you know, we've got Olympic lifting, we've know, we've got Olympic lifting, we've got, we've got everything in there. And so I've seen people and train people at all levels from, you know, total non-athlete that haven't done anything active in years, all the way to the highest level athletes that are fighting professionally in the UFC. So I've seen and brought people through those different, those different those different categories over the past 10 years that I've been training civilians.

Starting point is 00:22:10 So that's what this book contains is what those are like. Now, I also go after different goals because you want to be chasing something. At least I do. I want to be chasing something. I want to be trying to achieve something. But I don't just continually chase the same thing. So sometimes I'll be trying to, you know, maybe I'll spend a month trying to increase my deadlift and get, get my deadlift up there. And then sometimes I'll be just trying to run and get my, my three mile timed run or my four mile timed run down. Or sometimes I'm trying to max out on pull ups and see how many pull ups I can get. And so I'm kind of always chasing some goal of some kind.

Starting point is 00:22:51 And I never go too far in one direction. Because I think that that would not suit me for the way I live. For instance, if I was just trying to get a massive deadlift, which is awesome, but if that's my sole purpose is to get a massive deadlift, well, then I'm going to be as big and strong as possible, but that's obviously going to hurt my mobility. It's going to hurt my, my cardio. And so I get to a point where, you know, I'm maybe some percentage of my percent of my capability. And then once I get to that percentage and I get to that point where I'm really going to have to change my lifestyle in order to increase beyond that, that's when I say, okay, you know what? This is where my deadlift is at right now. Let's start looking at how many pull-ups I can do, or let's start seeing what other exercise I can move on to and, and find some other challenge.

Starting point is 00:23:48 So that's sort of what my, my workouts are like. I'm always chasing something. The other thing with this is people get really fanatical about working out and, and they get into the, where their workout becomes a form of religion. And, and that's one of the reasons that I never really talk specifically about what I do for my workouts because I'm don't really like to preach about, you know, you should do this or you should do that. So I'm, but people are interested. So that's, that's why I put it out there. And it is, you know, the, the kind of training that I do,

Starting point is 00:24:22 it definitely has been effective for me over the years in my various jobs. So, but I'm not a person that says, Hey, my way is better than everyone else's way. I'm not one of those people. I'm not saying that at all. Actually, there's people that know more than me. And there's people that have the better methodologies or different methodologies that work well for their system. And that's cool. That's cool. If you, if you want to text or whatever, put, put on social media, 8,000 times that you have something better. That's awesome. I appreciate your, your input, but I've been doing what I've done for a long time. And it's not a religion to me. It's just a cool way of working out. So my workouts are, are kind of split into some broad movements. The broad movement movements are pull, push, lift, and squat. And how those break out

Starting point is 00:25:17 pull is basically centered around pull-ups and in SEAL training, you do a lot of pull-ups and pull-ups are obviously important because you've got to a lot of pull-ups and pull-ups are obviously important because you've got to be able to pull yourself up, climb ladders, all those things. And so, and it's also good to know that you can move your body weight around. So pull-ups are a huge part of my workouts and, and pull-ups is what the pull day is centered on. I do all different kinds of pull-ups, close grip and narrow grip and wide grip and ring pull-ups and, and climbing ropes and, and obviously pull-ups on a pull-up bar. And so, so that's what the pull day is, is based on the push day is again, it goes back. It's rooted in seal training, which is the push day is basically centered around pushups and dips. And so again, all the different kinds of pushups and all the different kinds of dips, ring dips,

Starting point is 00:26:11 bar dips, pushups, close grip, pushups, wide grip, pushups, dive bomber, pushups, all these different types of pushups that you can do. That's what that push day is centered on. The lift day is for lack of a better way to explain this the lift day for me is primarily about getting things off the ground and over my head so so that means deadlifts it means cleans it means clean and jerk it means press it means snatches it means handstand pushups, those kind of exercises. That's what the lift day is to me. And then finally squat, which could also be called leg day, but that obviously focuses on all different kinds of squatting from back squat and front squat and overhead squat and all the other types of variations of squats that there are. But also it's not just squatting cause I'll do plyometrics and sprinting and calisthenics that are leg focused. So those are the, the kind of the four categories, pull, push, lift, and squat. And then on top of those, I do gut, which I guess it's what normal people kind of call core or abs

Starting point is 00:27:27 but I Just have always called it gut again. That's rooted in the SEAL teams. They would when I was a new guy in 1990 whatever they'd say we're gonna do some gut work and what that meant was you're gonna work out your abs You're gonna do sit-ups. You're gonna do Russian Russian twist. You're going to do all flutter kicks, all those things. And, and then on top of that, I do metabolic conditioning and, and the way I do metabolic conditioning, which is basically that means you're going to be breathing hard, really hard for either a short, intense amount of time, or maybe a little bit longer. But that's what I definitely do metabolic conditioning. And the reason I do metabolic conditioning is so that I'm in good shape, so I can sustain a high output for short bursts and

Starting point is 00:28:17 multiple short bursts and over longer periods of time. And I mix that in sometimes with the workout itself. And sometimes I do it before the workout. Sometimes I do it after the workout. And I mean, if you, if you talk about what my workouts consist of, as far as time goes, my workouts just depend on what's going on in my world in that day. Some of my workouts are very quick and I can get them done in less than 10 minutes and they make you want to throw up. And at the same time, some of them, sometimes I'm working out for three hours, you know, maybe doing singles and doubles and triples on, on weights for heavy exercises. So, and it depends, it depends on what I'm doing, what my current goal is,

Starting point is 00:29:06 how I set those up. And it also depends on what life is throwing at me. Obviously out on the road somewhere, you can't always do heavy squats because your hotel gym only has two 35 pound dumbbells, which really puts the heavy squats out of the picture. So you got to be able to adapt and make something else happen. So Tim asked that I talk about what an actual series of workouts from me would look like. And so, like I said, in the book, I actually put the workouts in the book and so I'll kind of read through some of these workouts a Few days so you get the feel for what it is and these are I went right to the advanced Workouts again, there's beginner intermediate and advanced. Maybe I'll talk a little bit about some of the beginner ones, too But there is a place to start if you you can't do anything, you can still get started. But the

Starting point is 00:30:06 advanced, here's a, here's an example of what I would do on a pull day for, for an advanced workout. So here we go. The primary work is going to be 30 muscle ups and a muscle up is on rings. You can do them on a bar too. I do them usually on rings. A muscle up is where you hold on to rings or a bar. Like, like you're going to do a pull up, you do a pull up, but you pull yourself all the way up and then press through until you've done a dip. And now you're in the dip position, either on top of the bar or on above the rings. So it's called a muscle up. If you can't understand my description, then you can go to YouTube and look up muscle up and you'll see them. So 30 muscle ups and then a hundred dead hang pull-ups and then a hundred kipping pull-ups. And I'll do all those for time

Starting point is 00:30:58 as fast as I can. And then when I get done with those, I'll do some hang cleans, which again, this is a place where you might want to go to YouTube and check out what a hang clean is. YouTube is an incredible instrument and tool for trying to learn. That being said, when you go and you look at the YouTube video, what you think you're doing is not what you probably are doing. And that's why getting a coach to help you is very important. I remember one time I was coaching a guy in boxing and in boxing, you're supposed to move your head from side to side. There's certain movements that your head is supposed to have. And I was, I was watching him do it. And he said, you know, how's my head movement looking? I hadn't

Starting point is 00:31:40 trained him in a while. He said, he said, how's my head movement looking at him looking? And I said, well, go ahead and let me see it. And so he started doing it and his, it was, it was hilarious because his head was staying absolutely still, but his shoulders were, he would lift his left shoulder, then lift his right shoulder, then lift his left shoulder, then lift his right shoulder. But his head was staying still. And I said, okay, it's okay. Just come here and look in the mirror. Cause when, when you shadow box, you use a mirror and he looked in the mirror and he saw what was happening. And in his mind, his head was moving back and forth from left to right. But in reality, the only thing that was moving was his shoulders lifting up. So you have to be very careful when you're, when you're

Starting point is 00:32:17 lifting weights that you, you, you truly are doing what you think you're doing. And the easiest way to do that is to have a coach come and watch you do your movements. So for instance, the hang clean is a, is a, is a movement that I would do next in this workout. And I would just do probably six sets, six sets of between three to six repetitions. And again, I'm just trying to maintain good form and then get done with that. So I've done 30 muscle ups. I've done a hundred dead hang pull ups and a dead hang pull up. If you don't know what that is, that's where you, you don't use any motion of your body. You're using pure strength. And then I do a hundred kipping pull ups. Oh, and before everyone thinks I'm lying or, or whatever, I can't do a hundred dead hang pull ups in a row. I can't do 30 muscle ups in a row. I can't do 100 dead hang pull-ups in a row.

Starting point is 00:33:06 I can't do 30 muscle-ups in a row. I can't do 100 kipping pull-ups in a row. When I talk about doing these, I talk about doing as many as I can, and then I have to stop and shake it out, and then I jump up and do some more. So maybe for my 100 dead hang pull-ups, maybe my first set, I only get 14 dead hang pull-ups. I drop off the bar. I shake it out. I jump up there and I do another 10. So now I'm at 24 and then I can't do any more. So I drop off the bar. Maybe I get another set of 10, then I'm at 34. And so that's what I'm going to do until I get to a hundred. When I get to a hundred dead hang pull-ups, now it's time for me to do kipping pull-ups and I'll do the same thing. Maybe the first set I do

Starting point is 00:33:44 40 kipping pull-ups. Once I've done 40, I shake off the bar or jump off the bar, shake it out a little bit. I'll jump up back on the bar. Now I do 20. So I'm up to 60. And now I drop off the bar. I do it again. I got to 80. So, so that's what I'm talking about. You're going to break up these sets until you can get the number that you're aiming for. So then after I'd done 30 muscle-ups, 100 dead hang pull-ups, 100 kipping pull-ups, then I jump into doing some six sets of hang cleans with a weight that allows you to do three to six repetitions per set while you're still maintaining good form. And it's, again, it's critical to maintain good form. And then I would do five sets of reverse curls followed by regular

Starting point is 00:34:27 curls. Now I used to, I went through the stage of saying, Oh, curls, you know, those are, those are just the exercise for looking good. And I was kind of derogatory on doing curls, but I changed my mind. I would say a few years ago, I changed my mind because, well, I hurt my bicep. And when I hurt my bicep, I said to myself, well, maybe my bicep isn't as strong as it should be. And the tendons going into it maybe aren't as strong as they should be. And so maybe I should do a little bit of isolation training on those muscles to make them stronger. And so that's what I started doing and it's it's worked out Well, my my bicep healed and it's hasn't been injured since then so So that's an exercise that even though people might think Oh curls. That's a bodybuilding exercise

Starting point is 00:35:18 Why would I do that? I don't care about looking good. I just want to be strong. Well, it makes you stronger, too So that's that's the curls then from there. I just want to be strong. Well, it makes you stronger too. So that's, that's the curls. Then from there I would do some gut work. The, the gut work I have listed on this particular workup is a hundred V ups, which is when you're laying flat on your back, arms extended above your head, feet extended as far as you can. And then you close up like a jackknife in a V position until you touch your toes to your fingers. And then you lay back down, do a hundred of those. And then a hundred Russian twists, which is when your feet are up in the air, your, your torso is up in the air and you're bringing your hands back and forth from side to side,

Starting point is 00:36:00 get done with that. And then I would do a little Metcon work. So metabolic conditioning. And for this one here, I have listed do four sets of cleans and pull-ups with the following repetition. So I do a set of 20 cleans followed by 20 pull-ups, then 15 cleans followed by 15 pull-ups, then 10 cleans followed by 10 pull-ups, then 10 cleans followed by 10 pull-ups, then five cleans followed by five pull-ups. And that's what I would do. And for the cleans, I'd use probably about 60% of my body weight to do cleans. And there you get a little, you get a little cardio work during that you will be breathing hard. I promise if you give that a shot. So there's an example of a workout that I would do. And for my pull day, you know, um, I'll talk about four, let's just do one more. Go, go for a push day,

Starting point is 00:36:55 push day. Here's a, another workout. So for this push day, I would be doing three minutes on and one minute rest of the following exercises, ring dips, which are dips using gymnastics rings, ring pushups, dips, clap pushups, deep pushups. So I do those deep pushups in, in parallettes, which are something or use something where you can go deeper than your normal range of motion if you're on the floor and then just regular push-ups on the floor and So I'd set my timer For three minutes of work and followed by one minute of rest and then I'd go through the ring dips as many as I can Three minutes then rest a minute and then do the same thing for the the ring push-ups the dips the clap push-ups the deep push-ups

Starting point is 00:37:40 and then regular push-ups and Once my time is up and this is something I always do is when I get to that last set, the last set is kind of the easiest exercise. So regular pushups are easier than clap pushups and they're easier than deep pushups. When I get there, I'm always going to do a hundred at that last, that last set. So, and again, that doesn't mean I can do a hundred pushups in a row, especially after i've done all this other work But I will continue to take rests and break up the set until I can get to what I want to do Until I get to that number of 100 now I get done with that And I would do some repetitions

Starting point is 00:38:18 Of the snatch movement. The snatch is a really hard movement to do And again, YouTube has some good visuals of what it looks like to do a snatch. But if you're going to start snatching, you really need to get someone to watch you and a good qualified coach that can, that can watch you and make sure that you're doing these exercises. Right. And you know, I would do some repetitions of that just to keep, just to build my own muscle memory and try and get better at the exercise. I'm not great at that exercise and then do some gut, hold a plank for five minutes. And then for the Metcon, for the metabolic conditioning, I do three rounds of max burpees

Starting point is 00:38:57 in three minutes with one minute of rest between the rounds. And that right there, that'll inflict some damage on you. If you go hard, you actually two minutes of burpees can crush people. If you go as hard as you possibly can for two minutes of burpees, it can, it can leave a mark and leave a mark. I will tell you now for the lifting again, you got to be really careful and make sure that your, your technique is absolutely critical. And you got to, if you sacrifice your form, you will, it will not make you stronger. It will actually make you injured. And I wrote that in the book that right there, sacrificing proper form will not make you stronger. It will only make you injured.

Starting point is 00:39:41 So try and find a good coach. that's going to teach you these things. And for this, for instance, on a lift day in this, in this workout that I've gotten the book, it's you get, I would do eight to 10 sets of clean and jerks building up to four sets that with a weight that allows me to do two to four repetitions. So I'm just doing eight to 10 sets, taking some time in between each set. This is a day where I'm trying to get stronger, trying to build my strength, trying to build my clean and jerk. So it's pretty simple. It's pretty straightforward. Eight to 10 sets of clean and jerks. And I'm doing, I'm trying to build up to where I do four of the sets are with a pretty heavy weight that I can only do two, three, maybe four times get done with that. I'm going to do some hanging windshield wipers for my gut, which is when you

Starting point is 00:40:32 hang from a bar and you bring your legs back and forth. Like I said, a windshield wipers, they're brutal by the way. So be, be, uh, be ready for that. Sounds all, sounds all easy. They're not. And then for the Metcon, I would do this here about 60% of body weight, 30 repetitions of clean and jerks without putting the bar down. Once you get done with that, rest two minutes, do 20 repetitions of clean and jerks with the same weight. Get done with that. Rest two minutes, all those without putting the bar down. Then the last one, you perform 10 repetitions. So you do, you get about 60% of your body weight. You do 30 reps. Don't put the bar down during the 30 reps. Once you're done with the 30 reps,

Starting point is 00:41:17 you can put the bar down, rest for two minutes, then pick up the bar again, do 20 reps, same weight. When you're done with that, put the bar down, rest for two minutes, two minutes is up, do it again, 10 repetitions, and then you're done. That's going to get you some, it's a tough workout. I can assure you. And lastly, for, for a squat day, what I would do here is just going to do some, some, some squats. I would do 50 overhead squats with about 60% body weight. And again, this is something you're going to break up. You're going to do what you can. You get done with 50 reps of that. You're going to do 50 front squats with about 80% of your body weight and then 50 back squats with your body weight. That's it. Pretty simple. Get done with that.

Starting point is 00:42:12 Do some gut a hundred sit-ups with 20% of your body weight sitting on your chest. And the Metcon is to run two miles. And I usually like to do some kind of a run when I get done squatting, because it kind of loosens up the legs and get some of that lactic acid moved out of there. So those are some examples of the workouts that I do. And then I would, I normally just go right back into the workout. However, sometimes after I've brutalized myself for multiple days in a row, I feel like crap. And so I might take a rest day. And what I do on a rest day is I'll still do something. Maybe we'll just go for a jog. Maybe I'll go for a swim. Maybe let's go in there and do some, some burpees to warm up and then just do some good stretching. But I don't like to take a lot of days off scheduled days off because I think life brings me days off when more often than I need. So whether

Starting point is 00:43:08 it's you're traveling or whether it's your water heater breaks or your car broke down or your kid got sick and you have to miss your workout, that's when I take my days off when I'm forced to by life. Now, again, inside this book, I've got beginner routines as well. And the beginner routines are actually, I'll look at one right now. Um, for instance, for a pull-up workout, all you're going to do is eight sets of max pull-ups. So you might only be able to do three pull-ups and guess what? You're going to do three pull-ups and then you'll rest for a few minutes. Then you'll do another three, or maybe you're only doing two. And then you do that eight times. And if you can't do any pull-ups at all, there's an answer to that as well. You jump up on the bar and you hold yourself up there

Starting point is 00:43:52 as long as you can, and you just do the negative work. So, and then you get done with that. You do some sit-ups as many as you can in two minutes and then run 400 meters two times. That's a beginner workout out inside this book. So I start off pretty easy and then it escal meters two times. That's a beginner workout out inside this book. So I start off pretty easy, and then it escalates as you get in better shape. And by the way, you can do that workout right there. It's a beginner workout, but you can do it. If you're advanced and you do it, you'll still crush yourself because instead of doing three pull-ups your first set, you'll be doing 58, and then you'll be getting your workout on so again that's that's the way the the workout book or the book is set up as far as workouts goes i also talk a little bit about

Starting point is 00:44:35 training on the road because i spend a lot of time traveling with the echelon front or consulting company so i'm in hotel rooms a lot and i got some stuff in there about the kind of workouts that I do in Hotel gyms, you know Sometimes I'll for instance throw a towel over a piece of gym equipment if they don't have a pull-up bar or I'll go into a parking garage because just about every parking garage has some kind of Plumbing or piping up in the ceiling and so you can find a place that you can jump up and you can do some pull-ups Be careful. Don't don't break the plumbing and cause

Starting point is 00:45:12 massive amounts of damage But you find a good pipe or you find a an I beam that you can get you can get a hold of and you go There and you do some pull-ups. So there's that I've done. I've spent many times doing dips between treadmills I don't really like treadmills. If I'm going to run, I'm going to go run. But the treadmills have big handles on them, so I'll kind of move those around the floor a little bit and get some dips on those. And sometimes, in fact, oftentimes, it's just the hotel room floor with their nasty carpets. And on those nasty carpets, I'll do burpees. I'll do pushups. I'll do gut exercises,

Starting point is 00:45:46 handstand pushups, squats, pistols, which are one-legged squats. I'll do whatever. And I'll just get crazy with the calisthenics. And a lot of times also when I'm on the road is I don't have a lot of time because I'm meeting with a client and then I'm speaking and then I'm going to a meeting. And so my, my workout and I flew in and I got in late. And so a lot of times I'll just be doing some kind of a quick workout to maintain the discipline, the, to maintain the discipline and to get some level of workout and to get the blood flowing. Cause I think it's bad when you don't wake up and do something. I always feel groggy for the day. So one of my favorite quick workouts to do is, is a hundred burpees for time, one minute rest, a hundred burpees for time, get some of that. Again, it should probably take you less than less than 20 minutes for sure.

Starting point is 00:46:37 And once you get done with that, you'll, you'll have the blood flowing and you'll feel better about yourself. yourself again all those are in the book and Yeah, you can check them out now another section of the book that Tim wanted me to talk about was I talk about martial arts in the book and I've been training martial arts for a long time and There's various types of martial arts. There's striking. There's grappling and There's weapons. These are the kind of the broad, the broad martial arts categories, right? Striking, which is when you're hitting people, grappling, which is when you're grabbing people and using weapons. Obviously there's all kinds

Starting point is 00:47:15 of different weapons from knives to swords, to sticks, to firearms, guns. And so I talk about those things, but I talk a lot about jujitsu, which, which I think is the best base to have for martial arts. And Tim liked this part where I talked about why to start with Brazilian jujitsu and how it should be taught for self-defense. So here we're going to the book where I talk about why to start with Brazilian jujitsu. Start with Brazilian jujitsu. It is a form of grappling that is highly advanced because for the most part, the actual fighting takes place on the ground. This is a key point because our first form of self-defense is to get away. Yes, to run. If you are confronted by another person or a group of people, the best thing you can do is run away. Avoid the conflict. This is relatively easy if someone is trying to strike you with punches or kicks, they do not have control over you, so you can simply run away from them.

Starting point is 00:48:26 You have won. The problem comes in a self-defense situation when someone is grabbing you. Now they are preventing your first line of self-defense, running away. As soon as someone grabs you, you are in a grappling scenario, and one of the most critical parts of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is escaping from someone's grip so you can run. Oftentimes, an attacker will take you to the ground in order to prevent you from escaping their grip. When this happens, the ability to ground fight is used not to stay on the ground, but to get up and get away from the attacker. The first goal of a beginner in jiu-jitsu is not to get the fight to the ground, but to get up off the ground and get away. This is an important distinction from people who believe the goal of self-defense and jujitsu is to get the attacker to the ground. This is not true. The goal is to get away. But as has been seen over and over

Starting point is 00:49:34 again, fights often end up on the ground and therefore a person must be prepared for it. Not training in jujitsu because you don't want to go to the ground is like not learning how to swim because you don't want to go in the water. It doesn't make sense. The safest way to deal with the water is to be comfortable in it. Just as being comfortable on the ground is the best way to deal with that scenario. Should it unfold in real life? So that's one of those things that people understandably. So if, if they learn that, if they think that jujitsu, if you get attacked, what you're going to do is grab someone and pull them to the ground. That's, that's not what the goal is. The goal is to get away from people. So unfortunately in many fights, they end up on the ground because if you start hitting someone,

Starting point is 00:50:25 their defense might be to grab you. And when they grab you, now you're in a grappling scenario. So that is why jujitsu is very important. Now there's other great martial arts and I talk about them in the book as well. One of the things that Tim asked me about is if I was teaching a jujitsu to a sort of a semi athletic person, not, uh, not, not an Olympic decathlete, but not a couch potato either. What would the first week look like? And the first, the first week would be pretty straightforward. The, the things I would want someone to understand are the fundamental positions of jujitsu. Jujitsu is a grappling art. You're, you're wrestling with another human being and there's certain positions and they have certain advantages and disadvantages. And so I would want them to

Starting point is 00:51:16 understand these fundamental positions. One's called the mount. One's called the guard. One's called the back. One's called side control. One is called half guard. And I would want people to understand what those positions were and how they related to jujitsu. And the next thing I would understand is this position. I would want my student to understand this position called the mount. The position is a position of dominance in jujitsu. The person that is mounted is on the top position, and they have a lot of control over the person that's beneath them. And if you are trapped there, you are in a lot of trouble. And so one of the first things I would teach people is how to escape from that mounted position when you're on the bottom

Starting point is 00:52:03 and how to get back up to their feet. That's the next thing is how do you get back up to your feet effectively so that you can get away? And then I would want them to learn if they are, if they are in the mounted position, how would they do some kind of a submission hold? That's one of the best things about jujitsu is there's something called submission holds in it where you can make the person tap out or you can break their arm or put them to sleep through a choke hold. So I'd want them to start to learn to understand what submissions they are threatened with in the mount. And that means you need to know what the offense is. And then I would want them to understand how, how this other position, which is called the guard.

Starting point is 00:52:45 And the guard is where you're on the bottom position. So someone has taken you to the ground and you're on the bottom. They're on top of you with their weight. But you've managed to get your legs around their body so you have some control over their body weight. And then once they understand how important that position is Then I would say teach them some submissions and some sweeps Which is when you change position you you put the person on you put your opponent on the bottom You were on the bottom and then you you sweep them and you put them on the bottom

Starting point is 00:53:17 And the whole time that i'm teaching these things. I think it's very important in jujitsu That you actually spar with other people Because people need to believe that jiu-jitsu works and one of the best ways to convince people that jiu-jitsu works is to actually have them Participate in it and actually have them train against another person. That's good Because when you train with someone that's good That's 40 pounds lighter than you and clearly weaker than you are and yet they can tap you out over and over and over again It is a real eye-opener and it will make a believer out of just about anyone So it's good to roll now. You do have to be careful because when people first start they go crazy Their ego gets out of control and everyone wants to just go a thousand percent against their opponent

Starting point is 00:54:04 So it's usually better to pair up someone against someone that's a little bit better than them, or maybe even quite a bit better than them so that they can understand how effective it is. And they can understand that no matter how much they panic, no matter how much they thrash around, no matter how much they use all their strength, that doesn't work in comparison to good jujitsu technique. So that's what it is for me, how I would kind of, that's how I actually, I do start people in jujitsu. Now there's something else to be said. When you go to a school, the school, wherever you go, does not revolve around you just showing up there. So you may not get this basic information, but what's cool about jujitsu is I look at it sort of like learning a language. And one of the best ways to learn a language is through immersion training.

Starting point is 00:54:51 And that's what's going to happen. You show up at many jujitsu schools. You are going to get immersed in something. You don't know what anything means. Just like if you showed up in a foreign country with a foreign language, you wouldn't understand anything at first. And then you start to recognize a word here and a word there. And then you recognize a little sentence fragment. And then eventually you start putting the pieces together and then you can speak the language. The same thing happens in jujitsu. So you start recognizing a move and

Starting point is 00:55:17 you see where another move ties into it. And eventually you put together a fragment of a series of moves. And then eventually you learn the language of jujitsu. So it's good to get the basics of, of all the different positions. And there's a million places to see those online so that you'd kind of understand fundamentally what's happening in jujitsu. But the immersion training is very important as well. And you get in there, you get in the, on the mat and you start training now people also always ask Where should I train? What's a good school? and There's I talk about this in the book and I'll go over some of the highlights of

Starting point is 00:55:54 Where how to find a good jiu-jitsu school again? Because I get asked this all the time and there's luckily in America. There's so many really good jiu-jitsu schools nowadays Jiu-jitsu is very popular in America. When I started, there was very few schools in all of America. And I was lucky to have a good school in San Diego, California, but that has spread now and there's really good schools all over the place. So number one thing I look at is actually proximity from home or work. I think it's very important that wherever you're going to train is close enough to you that you can get there conveniently without an 87 minute transit to get

Starting point is 00:56:31 there. No, if I've got a place that's, I want my place to be as close as I can. I think that's one of the primary things you look at. How close is it? So it's easy to get to whether you go there after work and it's so it's close to work or whether you go there after when, when you get home, because it's close to home either way, but having to drive 97 minutes to get to train somewhere is not going to be beneficial for your training. So look for some way somewhere close. The other thing is now you need to find a qualified instructor. There's a lot of qualified instructors out there. There's, and you might have a black belt and there's a lot of outstanding black belts, but you might only have a brown belt or a purple belt depending on where you are in

Starting point is 00:57:10 the world and how much jujitsu is where you are. And so you might only have a purple or a brown belt and that's actually fine. And back in the, back in the nineties, there were many schools in America that were run by purple belts and they were very successful and taught a lot of great guys. And now there's more black belts. So that's more common as far as the legitimacy of the instructor. You can really, there's a lot of really good internet police out there that keep the, the fakers in check. So a quick Google, maybe ask some people, check some forums and find out if the person is legit or not. And that's, that's very beneficial because you definitely want a

Starting point is 00:57:51 good qualified instructor. Now, the other thing is with schools is there's two different extremes on the schools. There's very traditional schools and there's very non-traditional schools. The traditional schools are are everyone's wearing the same uniform. Everything is done the same structured way. Each class, the instructors are called sensei or master or professor. And, and that's one type of school. And they're great. Some schools that are set up like that are great schools. There's also very non-traditional schools that are very loose and everyone's wearing a different kind of uniform and people are kind of coming on and off the mat. And instead of calling

Starting point is 00:58:29 the instructor professor or master or sensei, they'll just call them Jocko or Dean or Jeff, you know, just, it's all good. We're all friends and we're good. We're training hard and there's no formalities. There's no bowing. There's all kinds of different schools. the gray area between the, the very loose school to the very traditional school. There's some schools that are in the middle and then you want to check that atmosphere out. You know, what does that atmosphere like? And does the atmosphere match the goals that you have as a person? You know, if you just want to learn some jujitsu and start to train and you don't want to compete, but you want to know some good self-defense. That's a one type of school and you can find a school with that attitude. You can also find schools that are crazy competitive and that's all they're focused

Starting point is 00:59:34 on is sport jujitsu and how can I win the next tournament? And they'll have very intense training. So, and again, everything in between. So you want to find a place that goes and matches your goals. And I would recommend when you go into a gym, you try some classes, you see what they're like, you meet the other students, you ask the other students what their goals are in jujitsu. And I think you would, you, you can make a good decision. And another thing is, I always say this, jiu-jitsu is not a religion. And your instructors are not gods. They're people that are good at jiu-jitsu. So if you start feeling there's a cult scenario happening, just be careful.

Starting point is 01:00:19 You shouldn't feel like that. Jiu-jitsu is fun, and it's a great sport. So you shouldn't be feeling that. Jiu-jitsu is fun and it's a great sport. So you shouldn't be feeling that cult scenario happening and you shouldn't be Looking at your jiu-jitsu instructor as a religious deity So that's how you pick a school and and the book also discusses other martial arts boxing wrestling Muay Thai and like I said firearms training and and what's interesting about all these different types of training and you might be thinking that I

Starting point is 01:00:54 Don't I'm not interested in martial arts Which is fine, but I will tell you that first of all martial arts are great to train Not only are they great for self-defense and you learn how to handle yourself, they actually also make you a better person in a lot of different ways. You're able to handle yourself in any tough situation. You get confident because you know you can take care of yourself. And just the physical training, they make you sharper both mentally and physically, and and tougher and so that's that's why I think training martial arts and jiu-jitsu and boxing and Muay Thai and wrestling and and Firearms training and all these different martial arts type training They they will help you not just in those specific arenas But in everything that you're doing in your life, and I think that's I think that's really why a lot of people listen to Tim You know myself included. We all want to hear ways to get better in every different aspect of life. And the one thing that I know

Starting point is 01:01:54 will make you better is discipline. The discipline to get up, the discipline to work out every day, the discipline to eat right, and the discipline to make good every day, the discipline to eat right, and the discipline to make good financial decisions and make discipline choices about how you spend your time doing productive things. I think that discipline is the true pathway to improvement. And like the book says Discipline is ultimately the pathway to freedom So a bunch of stuff in the book I appreciate everyone listening I Supremely appreciate Tim for inviting me on to do this show while he's not allowed to talk. I still am I appreciate that and appreciate everything that Tim does and has done to support me and what I'm doing and for continuing to put out all the great content that he puts out to the world to help everyone out

Starting point is 01:02:59 there learn, implement, and improve. That's all I got. Appreciate everyone listening. Have a good one, y'all. Out. Hey guys, this is Tim again. Just a few more things before you take off. Number one, this is Five Bullet Friday. Do you want to get a short email from me?

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