Jason McCarthy: Rucking, Embracing the Suck, and Community Building Through Fitness
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Jason McCarthy is the founder and CEO of GORUCK. While serving in Special Forces, GORUCK was born and the goal was simple: build a rucksack with life or death quality standards that would thrive from Baghdad to NYC. Jason is also the co-founder and CEO of Sandlot, an organization that empowers everyone into fitness with the tools they need to workout with real people in the real world.
We get into Jason’s background and the origin story of GORUCK, the extensive benefits of rucking, and building community through fitness.
•
This episode of The Ready State Podcast is brought to you by Sleepme. Kelly and Juliet love a weighted blanket but most weighted blankets make you way too hot. They believe that Sleepme has created the greatest weighted blanket of all time. You get all the benefits of sleeping under something heavy, but none of the night sweats. If you want a weighted blanket with thermoregulation, head over to sleep.me/trs to learn more and save on the purchase of any new Cube or Dock Pro Sleep System. Take advantage of our exclusive discount and wake up feeling refreshed, everyday!
•
This episode of The Ready State Podcast is brought to you by LMNT, a tasty electrolyte drink mix with everything you need and nothing you don’t. That means lots of salt -- with no sugar. LMNT is formulated to help anyone with their electrolyte needs and is perfectly suited to folks following a keto, low-carb, or paleo diet. As you may have heard, the TRS office and studio is cold, like really cold. One thing that has made a huge difference is sipping on hot LMNT. Replacing electrolytes and staying toasty - Yes, please! And right now, order through our link and you receive a free sample pack with all of LMNT’s flavors. Go to DrinkLMNT.com/TRS and check it out!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.7 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sleep Me. |
| 0:21.0 | And what we wanted to talk about today was something we don't talk about as much. |
| 0:25.4 | And that's the weighted blanket. |
| 0:26.8 | The kids at Sleep Me have developed what I think is the greatest weighted blanket. |
| 0:31.0 | Now, a lot of our friends sleep with weighted blankets because it helps them fall asleep faster and stay asleep. |
| 0:36.8 | But one of the things they complain about, |
| 0:38.3 | wait for it, is it's so hot. Now you're trapped underneath a lava bed. And what's amazing about |
| 0:44.9 | the sleep me system is that you can plug in your doc pro, you can plug in your units to the weighted |
| 0:51.9 | blanket and you can use that weighted blanket and modulate your temperature. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, and I'm a huge fan of the weighted blanket. I love the feeling and I do think I sleep better when I'm underneath a really heavy object, but you're right. If you just have a normal weighted blanket, you wake up 5,000 degrees and have to cast off your weighted blanket. If you can, if you're strong enough. If you can, if you're even strong enough to get it off your body. And so what's so great about the weighted blanket is you can keep it on your |
| 1:13.0 | body the whole night because the... your weighted blanket. If you can, if you're strong enough. If you can, if you're even strong enough to get it off your body. And so what's so great about the weighted blanket is you can keep it |
| 1:12.8 | on your body the whole night because the doc pro or unit otherwise regulates the temperature. And so |
| 1:18.5 | you can really just sleep in this like perfect womb-like environment all night long. And the doc pro |
| 1:24.2 | is so powerful and has enough wattage that if you want to run a sheet and a weighted |
| 1:30.5 | blanket, you can control both of those things. Yeah, it's pretty spectacular, huge fan of the weighted |
| 1:35.2 | blanket. And if you're someone who struggles to fall asleep or stay asleep, this may be your ticket. |
| 1:40.1 | So if you want to try out a weighted blanket, head over to sleep.me slash TRS to learn more and save on the purchase of any new cube or doc pro sleep system. |
| 1:49.3 | That's sleep.me slash TRS to take advantage of our exclusive discount and wake up feeling awesome every day. |
| 1:56.6 | Awesome. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.