Get Off the X: A Navy SEAL on Pressure, Pain, and Action
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So many people compare to other people. |
| 0:02.3 | Like so many people may listen to this and be like, |
| 0:04.3 | oh, I can never be that Navy SEAL. And you're right, you will never be me. Just like I'm never going to be Joe DeSanta. You need to figure out how to be the elite person of you. And that starts and stops with you. Spartans, listen up. We need to sleep better. How do you sleep better? Never thought about it before. And so I met Jack, I met |
| 0:21.3 | Ascentia, I had attention to the mattress to sleep on because it's loaded with chemicals. |
| 0:26.2 | Recovery, cooling, and pressure relief, all in one mattress, up to 60% more deep and REM sleep. |
| 0:33.8 | Less inflammation, faster bounce back. No toxins. No EMFs. No BS. My buddy Jack, over at |
| 0:41.1 | Ascentia, he's kind enough to give us a code for the Spartan community. That's Decc, that's |
| 0:45.6 | tough mother of all of us. Use Spartan 25. Get a discount. Prioritize your sleep so you can sleep |
| 0:51.0 | faster. You can do more burpees. You can train more, you can get out there. |
| 0:54.7 | When you sleep well, you live well. |
| 0:57.3 | Joe Descent, CEO, founder of Spartan, host, a Hardway podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | I've got a great, great buddy of mine here, Jason Redman, retired Navy SEAL, 21 years in the service, |
| 1:08.4 | absolute badass animal. |
| 1:11.1 | You remind me a little bit of Wolverine, by the way. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah, with the amazing hair. |
| 1:18.1 | I'm not quite as indestructible as him. |
| 1:20.1 | I did pretty well, but my regeneration isn't quite as good. |
| 1:24.1 | So you make it through and then 21 years of service? Yeah, made it through |
| 1:29.5 | 21 years. You know, it was a great career, an amazing career. I got, I was an enlisted SEAL |
| 1:37.9 | and did counter-drug stuff and Central and South America. I became a training instructor for the SEAL team, |
| 1:46.9 | not out in, not out in San Diego for actual our basic SEAL training. So I learned, I like teaching. |
| 1:54.2 | I learned, you know, I taught marksmanship and invasion and recovery and communications. |
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