Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink ( PDFDrive.com )

all (slightly larger than a lacrosse ball) for doing
mobility and maintenance work.
If the hotel has a gym, I get in there and use it. Of
course, hotel gyms are usually pretty pathetic. They
don’t have very heavy weights, they might not have a
pull-up bar or a dip bar, and they are generally
small. But I get in there and improvise. I will do
what I can to reproduce my real workout. Due to a
lack of weight, my workout usually consists of lower
weights and higher reps. If there is any kind of
pull-up bar, I utilize it. If not, sometimes I will
hang a towel over one of the machines in the gym and
do pull-ups on that. Many times I have done dips
between two treadmills. I will use benches to jump
over or on, jump ropes to push the heart rate up, and
any other object they have in the gym that I can use
to get my blood flowing.
I consider these workouts more of a maintenance
routine than a workout that will result in serious
progression.
Sometimes, the hotel doesn’t have a gym or it is just
worthless, or I have a very tight schedule and don’t
have much time. In those cases, I often just do a
hotel room workout on the floor.
The hotel room workouts are rudimentary and, again,
are usually not geared toward any great advancement
in my physical conditioning. They are more focused on
maintaining the discipline of working out early, and
getting the benefits that come from working out:
blood flow to the brain, releasing endorphins, and
overall kick-starting my day. Also, I do try to plan
my schedule to do several days’ worth of murderous
physical training before I go on the road so that my