This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 206 with Echle 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.

True. All right. First question. Hello, Jocko. 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 few years and have finally made space for a home gym.

That's what time it is.

What do you guys think are the must-haves for a beginner gym?

Not sure where to even start looking.

I appreciate all your hard work.

Thanks in advance.

So out of the gate, I'm going to go, you know, right out of the gate, if you get rings, you got a lot of stuff 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 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 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 your legs, so you're good there. After a pull-up bar is a dip bar. Now, again, rings cover both those. If you have a place to hang rings, then you can do pull-ups, you can do dips, you can do ring push-ups. there's so much stuff that you can do with rings so rings are really good

But if I didn't get rings and rings aren't that expensive either like a hundred bucks you get a nice nice get wood rings too

Don't get plastic rings don't get metal rings I went through a time in my life where I thought everything should be made of metal

That makes sense I was trying to I was trying to if to make something, it had to be, it should be metal, I thought, to myself. Well, it turned out I was wrong. This was probably when I was like 22. Makes sense. Hey, everything should be metal. Yeah. Makes sense. But rings, definitely metal is worse. Wood is optimal.

Absorbed sweat, better traction, the whole nine yards.

So that's where I'm out of the gate.

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