how did the seals deal with fatigue soreness and beat down and the beat down
of buds and sqt without getting injured well you just
get used to it and again you know I say this all the time buds and the sqt which
is the kind of the initial training after you get done with buds which is
the basic underwater demolition SEAL training that's a short part of your
career I mean it's literally a fraction of your career it means nothing but just
like any working out you get used to it and if it's like when you workout when
you if you haven't worked out for a long time or someone that's someone that just
starts working out from nowhere never worked out before they're gonna be sore
as hell when they first workout I just had this happen to me cuz I got I want I
went on the road I went on a road trip multiple back-to-back road trips and I
went overseas came back when I came back I got sick so I was for like three weeks
I hadn't squatted heavy at all I had no body all I did was bodyweight squats you
know pistols just lunges you know that's how I work my legs there's just no
weight so you just do what you can do in a hotel room in some strange part of
Europe and when I came back I was all happy and I got on that squat once I
then I was sick and then once I got done being sick I finally felt good I got
back on that squat rack and man my legs were destroyed for four or five days I'm
talking you know having a hard time sitting down having a hard time standing
up it was gnarly and but but that's just because my body just it just wasn't he
lost that element so of course if you just started working out in your walking
around sore all the time that's that's that's because you got to get used to it
and in Budds you do get injured just because it's massively repetition you
know there was a guy that we had that was a trainer an athletic trainer for a
professional sports team and when he was there there's a great
example there's something called patella femoral syndrome which is when your
patella because of the way you're running it rubs on your your femur and
it becomes problematic and he said in like a whole season in the NFL or he
would see maybe one of those injuries maybe two and you'll have to figure out
what it is and when he was working in buds he would literally see 30 of those
a week so you just get to see I mean there's more people there's ten times
the people but it's still a massive amount of injuries and it's the same
thing in the SEAL Teams and the SEAL Teams it's your shoulders it's your
backs it's your knees it's your ankles you get
abused and it's it's it's not the working out that does it to you it's not
working out it's carrying a guy on your shoulder the over the rocky terrain out
in the desert and tripping on an ankle that's what you can hurt it's jumping
over all off of a wall and you land on a cinder block that breaks and you put you
know it's that's the kind of stuff but working out doesn't really do it to you
I actually Wow one of the things when when I was at asking the commander and
we were going through land warfare training and I would work out every day
and I would roll with guys like teach them some jujitsu and then roll with
them and I would you know guys are because you know we're working hard
during the day or during the night and I was kind of making fun of some guys that
were taking motrin and I was like you don't need that you're weak and stuff
like that and sure enough right after we got done I got something called bursitis
in my elbow because in land warfare your constant getting down as you're crawling
you're and then I was in jujitsu on the mat and I just banged it a couple times
and sure enough my elbow swelled up and I had to take motrin
yeah don't don't open your mouth Jocko yeah just keep it to yourself so you
know and again I was I was hammering guys but in a joking manner and so they
hammered me right back when I had the the motrin pills to try and heal that up
but it is like I said it's the it's the the injuries come from not from working
out in fact I always think that the working out prevents the injuries you
know that I think that's true with everything I think that's true with
jiu-jitsu I think that's true with life you you work out your strong your joints
are strong you your muscle density is better your I mean just just work out
because it'll prevent injuries more than it more than I don't worry about I look
at working out not as injuries gonna happen I look at working out as injury
prevention and the last thing is you shouldn't need to like completely crush
yourself every day in your workouts I mean you shouldn't be going to a point
that you have massive muscle soreness over your whole body or over even body
parts you don't need to do that you don't need to do that you know do you
want to push yourself yeah you want to push yourself but you want to be so sore
that you ache like can't perform your job and also I like you know active rest
you know I hardly ever just do nothing occasionally I will occasionally house
men on broke down yeah and just eat steak and just chill but uh
but I like to do the active rest you know I like to do some kind of jog swim
surf whatever and you know actually jujitsu like if I have a sore back
I love getting on the mat it just loosens everything up feels so good
but that's only at a certain level yeah because when you're a white belt or a
blue belt or whole purple belt been that brilliant it's just a battle you're
you're getting off the mats or I don't get off the mats or 4G too seldom Seldon
do I get off the mat like man I'm tired I mean we trained today I'm not that was
a no factor you know the name is just oh yeah we trained but you know if you get
into the takedown that element though that yeah yeah it'll be hard on your
back but even the takedown elements you know if you're just gonna do pure
takedowns yeah but I mean it takedowns gonna last how long and if your back
sore bullguard and work something else yeah
so that's it in the bottom line is you work out you do some of these workouts
you'll get used to it you'll get in the zone and then you won't be so sore all
the time yeah that as an advocate of rest I that's important that part where
you're like don't beat your down yourself down because the exercise that
technically really split hairs here the exercise doesn't make you stronger the
recovery from the exercise is when you get stronger so yeah that was part of
the whole system it makes it strong but when you recover from that exercise
that's when you're stronger I'll give you them so yeah but the workout itself
is what induces the recovery so sure yes there you go you well I guess so it's
all kinds of different philosophies right different approaches like you you
prefer the active rest and that going hard every day some people they prefer
go hard every day but then they'll have a straight up to three days off that's
completely you know um but yeah you know recovery from the exercise that's that's
the ticket yeah and when I say go hard I mean like the muscular you know destroy
like if you can do squats until you can't walk you can't do that alright
yeah you don't need to right you need to initiate the growth mmm you don't need
to destroy them and and you can do you know you can put with them with the
metabolic conditioning you could really can destroy yourself a lot more often
and if you're doing it right you shouldn't really be getting muscular
LeSueur from your metabolic condition if you're doing it right yeah but then
again isn't that really a spectrum as well it is ii can be like a heavier you
can I get quickly that's the that's the beauty of workout that's why you should
never get bored with working out she can change though