jack willink how do you deal with fatigue both mental and physical how do i deal with fatigue mental and physical i rest and uh you know when when if i’m feeling like just completely over trained and weak uh i usually tell well i tell my fighters i’d say hey you just got your butt kicked today go eat a big steak tonight take tomorrow off you know you just need rest and it’s pretty obvious when that happens and so i do the same thing for myself if i if i’m feeling horrible and you know you can see occasionally my workouts consist of like you know doing some mobility training rolling it out you know doing a big stretch that’s because i’m just tired and i know it and so i just give myself some down time i think it’s very important to know the difference between being lazy and being over trained and it’s very easy to make that excuse for yourself and that’s why i always err on the side of i’m working out i’m training because and usually then the next day so if i feel like exhausted today i won’t take today off but i will take the next day but i’ll work out today just to make sure right that i’m not just being lazy so i’ll do another workout get another training session in or whatever the case may be so i make sure that’s not just that moment because sometimes the next day you’re like you know i’m not that bad right i’m gonna get i’m back in the game yeah back on the program the uh the other thing people ask me all the time i’ve probably written this a dozen times or more on twitter is do i take naps and the answer is yes in fact i slept on the i flew today and i slept probably two hours on the plane um and that’s a little bit more than a nap and i’m not on a plane every day so what do i do for naps yes i do take naps what i do for naps and this is something that i learned from a high school teacher that i had was i walked into his office one day and he had his feet up on the desk above his heart and i said you know what are you doing and he said oh this is really good for you you put your feet above your heart and it allows the blood to circulate out of your feet and gives you know lets your your veins and your one-way valves and your veins rest a little bit and gets little pools of blood out of random places and it’s getting good and so i tried it and it felt really good and so when i was going through seal training i used to when i come in we’d we’d have like a couple minutes in between evolutions and i just go in and put my feet upside my alarm clock sleep for a few minutes you know nowadays if i can i’ll try and sleep for like six to eight minutes set my timer on my iphone and you look like distressed when i said six to eight minutes yeah you don’t consider anything under the three hours yeah that’s not a legitimate nap not a legitimate nap if i sleep for like an hour then i’m up for too long at night i won’t be able to go to sleep with too much rest gotcha yeah under what circumstances are you going to take a nap though like how do you how do you just feel i’m just tired i’ll feel myself like now oh yes like sleepy tired and that’s the thing is i can do if i’m if my mind is engaged in something or especially if my body’s engaged in something that’s what’s cool about working out you can work out when you’re exhausted because once you start moving it’s not like you’re gonna fall asleep while you’re doing squats right it’s like you’re gonna fall asleep while you’re doing pull-ups yeah you’re just gonna do the pull-ups you’re just gonna do the squats and when you get done you’ll be tired you’re going to sleep right what’s hard to do and this is when like when we were writing the book when i was writing my section of books i’d be writing at night 11 o’clock at night 12 o’clock at night be trying to hammer through it and sometimes i just fall you know i’d be falling asleep oh man so but that feeling of hey i’m just falling asleep right that’s not good i know so when i’m feeling that tired i’ll all power not but it’s like one of those things where i also like to push through it so someone was just trying to power through it because honestly even even a short nap for me will kind of make me stay up too late at night and all of a sudden it’ll be one o’clock in the morning six to eight minutes six to eight minutes six eight minutes a power nap a six to eight minute power nap can make you feel amazing oh yeah it can make you feel amazing don’t underestimate the power nap it is a legit fool right there yeah i i actually used to take like 15 minute nah like yeah 15 minutes yeah i know that’s overkill for you that’s a little much going into laziness but seriously 15 minutes is yeah you probably felt like yeah outstanding but it only helps with that sleepy time because let’s say i’m used to a certain amount of sleep let’s say i get two and a half hours less sleep than i’m used to it goes way beyond me feeling just sleepy tired it’s like physically tired oh really yeah so yeah i don’t have that issue yeah yes you’re different so if i take a 10 minute power nap when i am lacking two and a half hours of my quote-unquote oh it’ll make up for it right no no no no no no it helps me when i get my normal sleep give or take but i’ve been doing a lot of stuff during the day you know and you’re like dang i did a lot my brain was kind of used a lot and dang i have this whatever i got to do now yeah then you take the 10 15 minute nap then it it brings you right back yeah and it typically will not mess with my sleeve i wonder how much of this is just you just not just powering through stuff yeah probably all of it but nonetheless that’s how it is yeah for me for sure it’d be interesting to at some point for you to experiment with like lack of sleep and sleep deprivation and see how well you can perform like i’ve been noticing that where if i don’t get a lot of sleep i can still perform really well yeah at some physical activities and then after a few days though i do i could feel like garbage right and there’ll be some physical activities that i’ll field a week at but yeah and and you’re right well there the i mean as long as it’s like one time or even two times or so if i film or something and like let’s say i film in the morning but then i’ve been up you know working late the night before when i go into film i’m like charged up i’m sure there’s all kinds of factors in there a lot of it’s like like adrenaline not like it’s like this huge adrenaline rush but there’s that little bit of adrenaline because of the task you know so that helps and um a lot of times just like how you said if i made the decision like no i’m not gonna miss this workout at all under any circumstances then i happen to get two and a half hours less sleep then and i go in and how you say power through it you can you can totally do it yeah but i’m seeking comfort fully yeah for sure but it still doesn’t help though but to answer the question yes if you’re tired sleep if you need rest rest and don’t try and over train yourself you probably are over training and and just need some rest yeah
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