BUSY ENTREPRENEURS Listen Up: Simple HACKS To Stay FIT While CRUSHING It In Business (No Extra Time Required)! | Mark Sisson EP 647

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12What feedback would you give an entrepreneur listening or someone with a busy schedule about how to live this lifestyle? You know, they want to be a primal athlete in their daily life, but they also want to run a business and they're spending a lot of time and energy into this one thing. Yeah. Maybe their entrepreneurial life is like this marathon life that we're talking about where they put all their energy into this one thing and they're not doing anything else. Yep. There are ways to have it all. But you can't be like the best endurance athlete in the world and a really successful entrepreneur.

0:42So you've got to choose how much of the endurance athlete you want to be. I would suggest that for me, the best choice was I want to tow the starting line with the least amount of training possible to still kick 90 % of the field's ass. right so i for me the goal is almost how little can i get away with to get the maximum to get the maximum result without having to go okay because because if it's going to take you know 20 of the effort to get 80 of the result i'm not willing to put in the other 80 to win the thing right anymore or or and maybe i won't even win the thing because maybe i'll have overtrained so now you're back to the to the entrepreneur slash endurance athlete get a stand-up desk and a tread desk so i have a treadmill.

1:25Every one of my employees has a treadmill. Really? I don't force them to use it. They can if you want. But they can. They request it. I give it to them. So you can put in eight miles walking easily and no one on the phone or even on the Skype will know that you're walking. Because you can make it uphill, whatever. Take frequent breaks and drop and do some push-ups or some air squats. What I do is I like to go for a paddle and I'll bring a recording device on a stand-up paddle board and I'll if I get my great ideas when I'm paddling so I'll just record my ideas the other thing is hiking so if you want to do some serious hiking bring a headset in your phone make make business calls while you're hiking I got a friend who's basically a billionaire and that's where he makes most of his business calls he does two hours of hiking a day nobody knows he's hiking that he's hiking so the grunt work you do in the gym takes almost no time.

2:20It's not like you have to spend an hour in the gym doing any of this stuff. Like I said, that maximum sustained power workout I just described, it's basically a short warm-up, maybe 10 minutes of doing it, and then you're done. And if you could do it two days later or three days later, you didn't do it hard enough that day. So we want you to take a week to recover from that, from that specific work. It doesn't mean you can't go walk the next day or do anything else the next day, but you just wouldn't want to repeat a heavy leg day. Right, right, right. Exactly. So it's how you, this is the sort of orchestrated structural components to this thing where when you put it all together, you can have it all.

2:58You can be an effective, efficient entrepreneur, and you can compete against all of those other guys who are claiming they're going to kick your ass in the 10K or the Spartan race or whatever it is. Right, right. I love that. And we talked about the diet already, but the last thing is proper recovery. When do you know you're overtraining? Well, so there are all sorts of metrics. I mean, you just wake up in the morning, and if you haven't slept well and you're sore, then you're probably overtraining. Should we not feel that soreness at all? Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's appropriate to feel. You can feel it on a day-to-day basis, but not on a week-to-week basis.

3:31So you can feel sore after a workout yesterday or two days ago. But I think if you're still feeling sore for days on end, then you're probably linking together too many hard workouts, or you might have overreached on one of your workouts. So, that's one indicator. We have a metric that we use called heart rate variability, HRV, and you can buy these apps that measure the time between heartbeats. And you'd think that you'd want to see a metronomic beat, like an exact amount of time spaced between each heartbeat. But it turns out that that's an indication of overtraining. that in fact we want the heart to be beating almost in demand to whatever is being called upon in in real time so there might be a 0.8 second skip and then a 1.1 second skip and then a 1.2 and then a 0.8 and then a 0.9 and that's heart rate variability and and you can and if you if you've got a good heart rate variability score it's probably a good indicator that you're that you're rested and well trained and ready to go again.

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