Episode 997: Blue Light Lifestyle - Fixing the Force w/ Ian Cook

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

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4.9 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Former Police Officer and current Health Coach Ian Cook shares his journey from working within the law enforcement system to advocating for wellness, purpose, and reform. He discusses the mismanagement he witnessed, the creation of Blue Light Lifestyle, and how improving health and performance can reshape lives—on and off the force.

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Teaser

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Intro

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Ian’s background

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Working against the industrial complex of law enforcement

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Pursuing your purpose & making a difference

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Horrible mismanagement of resources

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Ian’s work with Blue Light Lifestyle

00:29:27:03 - 00:34:13:15

Positive interventions & correlation between diet and performance

00:34:13:15 - 00:38:19:22

Creating a sense of urgency about your own health

00:38:19:22 - 00:42:15:10

Fitness levels in law enforcement

00:42:15:10 - 00:57:09:05

Taking care of yourself

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Cultural harmony between the US and the UK

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Outro

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0:00.0	Hey guys, make sure you check out streetcop.com for all of our upcoming courses in person,
0:04.4	our online courses, and Streetcop University, do have training right at your fingertips,
0:08.7	and we've made it so affordable, so reasonable that everybody can get an opportunity to train
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0:16.4	streetcop.com. I don't care where you are in the world. Police forces do not like the mirror being held up to them.
0:23.4	And if it is, you become the problem when the realities you are trying to highlight the problems
0:28.4	that officers are facing. These people are in charge of budgets and they've got no idea what
0:32.8	policing's all about. They've got no policing background at all. And you sit there and you think to
0:37.0	yourself, I can't get my head around this at all and you sit there and you think to yourself,
0:42.3	I can't get my head around this at all because if you were in charge of a business, you'd be gone.
0:46.7	But in policing, we seem to accept it for what it is and we just go, oh, it's fine, it's policing.
0:49.7	Every police obviously wants to have control of your environment. You want to have control of your environment. You want to be in control when you're at work and have control of your days off. And if you've got no routine or structure and your foundation's poor, you won't have.
0:57.0	And that's what we'll basically look at.
0:59.6	One 11.
1:04.0	You're training to be a street cop.
1:09.2	You guys, welcome this episode of Streetcock Training podcast.
1:11.3	Your host, founder and CEO Street Cup Training.
1:13.0	My name is Dennis Beagle, and today I'm wearing a tank top.
1:15.9	Sorry, this isn't some kind of thirst trap.
1:18.4	I just a very, very hot day out, and I did not want to change my shirt.
1:23.2	And I just thought, whatever, I really don't care.
1:25.2	It doesn't make a difference to me.
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