{"id":13087,"date":"2021-07-25T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T10:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-air-force-chief-of-staff-sweats-hard-to-start-his-day\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T10:49:53","slug":"the-air-force-chief-of-staff-sweats-hard-to-start-his-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/the-air-force-chief-of-staff-sweats-hard-to-start-his-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Air Force Chief of Staff Sweats Hard to Start His Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Charles Q. Brown Jr., 58, grips his dumbbells tightly, never taking his eyes off the timer beside him. It beeps once, and he battles through 40 seconds of squats. After a 20-second rest, another beep pushes him into reverse lunges, and now he\u2019s panting hard. That doesn\u2019t stop him from grabbing the dumbbells again, pulling them to his thighs just slightly, and then curling the weights and pressing them overhead on the third beep.Sure, he\u2019s gassed, but today\u2019s workout calls for tight 40-seconds-on, 20-off intervals. And the Air Force\u2019s chief of staff never deviates from his plan. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s cheating if I take more rest,\u201d he says during one breather. \u201cI try to stay as close as I can to whatever it says on my timer. The gener&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Men\u2019s Health<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/fitness\/a36701417\/general-charles-q-brown-jr-air-force-workout\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Charles Q. Brown Jr., 58, grips his dumbbells tightly, never taking his eyes off the timer beside him. It beeps once, and he battles through 40 seconds of squats. After a 20-second rest, another beep pushes him into reverse lunges, and now he\u2019s panting hard. That doesn\u2019t stop him from grabbing the dumbbells again,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1391,"featured_media":13088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Air Force Chief of Staff Sweats Hard to Start His Day - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-air-force-chief-of-staff-sweats-hard-to-start-his-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Air Force Chief of Staff Sweats Hard to Start His Day - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"General Charles Q. 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