Latest / Man In Your Corner with Shaun Tucker / When You've Got Something to Do, Get Your Ass to It | Ep. 142
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- Shaun: Welcome back to the reset. I am Sean Tucker, human performance scientist and authority architect. We are here in the Living Lab documenting the science, the struggle, and the shift for every high performance dad and founder who is ready to bridge the gap between their ambition and their presence. I want to lead with the story today. I, for whatever reason, I know what the reason is, and I'll get to that in a second. Was going through the push-up challenge. And the For those of you who know or don't know, the push up challenge ended on Friday. There was three thousand three hundred and seven push ups to be completed over twenty four days. I was going pretty well, I was keeping up because there's a daily target to hit every single day. It alternated, Sundays were rest days, and yeah, I I had one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight push ups to do on Friday. How was I gonna do that? I made a promise to myself that I would go ahead and complete the challenge. It didn't matter how many reps I had to do. Wasn't about just doing the push ups, because I actually couldn't do all of those reps as push ups. Even for the days where I was consistently keeping up, I was doing push ups on my knees instead of on my toes. Because push ups are hard, man. Like three thousand three hundred and seven push ups in a in a few weeks, in twenty four days, like that's that's a lot of push ups. And I did feel a little twinge or like kind of ⁓ soreness on my left shoulder blade, so I didn't want to really risk getting an injury 'cause functional movement or movement is really important to me, and I do do my Sunday morning workouts with the dads as well. Anyway, I had one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight push ups or reps to complete on Friday. I made the pact to myself that I was going to complete the challenge because as a team, as a Mulgrave Fitness Dads team, we raised seven hundred and fifty dollars in total so far, and then the contributions can still come in. But as a team, we smashed our goal by $250. And yeah, I'm super happy about that. But coming back to the reps, that's a lot of reps to do in a day. I ⁓ Did it, completed it over about six hours time, and I was mixing squats with push ups with dips on the bench or the chair. I was mixing in sit ups, side crunches, like you name it, my body is pretty sore. And I gotta say, as I was moving through the challenge, as I was moving through these reps, I kept our team up to date with how many reps I had to go. And like I said, it took about six hours to complete that many reps. I was just focused, task focused. And I'm not saying to do this, but when you've got something to do, something that's important to you, and you still haven't done it, well, get your ass to it because you've got to You gotta finish it. So I'm really happy that I finished the challenge. My body is sore, but today I showed up for the the Mulgrave Fit Dads ⁓ workout and I felt stronger. Right? I felt more energized, I felt overall pretty happy with myself, and that's two days after the challenge finished. That's two days after I completed the one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight reps. I didn't just do them in one long set. I staggered them. You know, I was doing twenty reps here, forty reps here, fifty reps here. But I got it done. Why is that important? Why is it com why is it important to actually finish what you start and complete what you start and set out to do? My goal was to hit the target, three thousand three hundred and seven reps across the twenty four days. Did I hit it? Yes I did. Did it go to the plan that I wanted to make along the way? The one that was set out for me? Br nope. It didn't go to the plan that was set out for me. There was about eight or ten days that I consistently missed. I think I've mentioned before on this podcast, I went to a Chinese medicine doctor and they basically said that I was overtraining and that I needed to rest and recover. And the reason why I ⁓ missed the days wasn't because I didn't want to do them, wasn't because I was resting. It was actually more so to the point where it faded out of my mind of importance. And it came to the end of the day and I'd have like two hundred reps to do on that day. I had already showered and then I realized, crap, I've got to do my reps. But did I panic and did I go ahead and do them? No. Because to me, what was more important at the moment was rest and recovery. And I'm glad that I did, because even doing two hundred reps of push ups staggered throughout the day might have ticked me over when I was in that state of let's say burnout or exhaustion, unable to rest and recover. I didn't follow the plan. But I trusted my own plan. I trusted my own process. And this is what happens when you're around people who also believe in you and also hold that standard within themselves. One of the dads in the group that we have, the WhatsApp group, he's like, Come on boys, dig deep. There's a lot of a lot of you haven't have got a lot of reps to go. Remember, this challenge is not about doing the push ups, it's about preventing and raising the awareness for preventing male suicide. In Australia, that's how many people take their lives. Three thousand three hundred and seven people take their lives every single year. That was the recorded number for twenty twenty four. That's a crazy amount of people that just take their lives willingly. Not factoring in the women. That's men by themselves. So it was important. I myself lost a friend, a male, when I was in year ten, I was sixteen years old, and this boy was Fourteen or fifteen. He'd just broken up with his girlfriend and his girlfriend go went ahead and said, Go and kill yourself. And what did he do? He went and killed himself. I really believe this challenge helped me really uncover and unpack that grief that I was still holding. 'Cause grief is really just love with nowhere to go. Was I super close with this friend? No, but I knew him and I I recognized him, I saw him for who he was. He was a sensitive kid. A sensitive young man took his own life because he felt that was the only option. That's why I completed the challenge. That's why I did one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight reps on Friday. We do what's important to us. And what if it is important to you, make sure you carry through. Make sure you follow through. Cause end of the day, it's easier to lose ourselves similar like our brothers in arms who take their lives. So maybe it's a cry for help, maybe it's a cry for awareness, maybe it's just me expressing what what is on my mind and what's on my heart. We can do better as men, as leaders, as brothers, as fathers, we can all do better. It's not about just showing everyone how good you are. It's not about showing people that you can do it and they can't. No, because what happens when you show that you can do it? It gives them permission and they can see that in themselves that they can do something hard. That brings us to the end of the reset today. If you found it valuable, share it with one person. Remember, most people wait for their life to change. We are the ones who architect our choices. Change your state, choose how you show up. I am Sean Tucker. I will see you in the next one.