Jocko Underground: Make It All Happen On Your Own Steam - No Support, Home Gym, Your Future

Jocko Willink· Host0:00

This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 206 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. We have questions from you all out in the field and we will provide courses of action, recommendations, possibly answers. Let's go.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:14

Let's do. All right. First question. Uh, "Hello Jocko, Echo. I'm a dad who works long hours, also have a six-month-old daughter. It's been a struggle for me to spend valuable time with my wife and daughter after waking up early for the gym and coming home exhausted. I've been listening to your podcast for the f- few years and have finally made space for a home gym."

Jocko Willink· Host0:36

Oh, yeah.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:37

[laughs] That's what time it is. "What, what do you guys think are the must-haves for, for a beginner gym? Not sure where to even start looking. I appreciate all your-" Hard work "... thanks in advance."

Jocko Willink· Host0:48

So out of the gate, uh, I'm gonna go, you know, r- right out of the gate, if you can get rings, you got a lot of stuff covered, right? So if you got rings, you got pull-ups covered, you got dips covered, and then you can do all, all kinds of calisthenics, and there's a bunch of other kind of like functional strength training that you can do with rings. So that's out of the gate. For me, if I was gonna be on a desert island and I could only have one piece of exercise equipment, it's gonna be rings.

Echo Charles· Co-host1:17

Yeah.

Jocko Willink· Host1:18

If I didn't have rings, a pull-up bar. Because once again, if you have a pull-up bar, you can do pull-ups, and then you can always do push-ups, and you can do squats and jump squats and sprints and stuff like that for