Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

by Jesse Itzler

“By the time we’re done you’ll be able to do a thousand push-ups in a day.”

Let’s get into this shit. Meet me here in nine minutes. And don’t bring your cowfuck expressions.”

“The temperature is what you think it is, bro, not what your computer thinks it is. If you think it’s fourteen degrees, then it’s fourteen degrees.

“When I talk to you… please play tennis with me and hit the ball back. It’s called ‘communication,’ and it’s important to a marriage.”

do ten push-ups followed by as many sit-ups as I can until the second hand on the clock hits 12 again. Then I start the push-ups and sit-ups again. We repeat that for thirty minutes nonstop.

SEAL says “Today is goal day. Today all your hard work pays off. We are going to see if you can do one thousand push-ups.”

A thousand push-ups is something I could never have imagined doing. It just shows that repetition and consistency equal results.

I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done. —SEAL