Navy Seal Workout

[scauffiel]

Just to bring this back up for a couple more answers... I forgot and didn't mention drownproofing last night during my post. Drownproofing is ONE way of becoming more comfortable in the water. Your hands are tied behind your back, and your feet are tied together. You have to be able to float for (IIRC) ten minutes, then you have to be able to bob for another ten. Once you're done bobbing, you have to swim 100 meters, still tied up (the tank/pool we train in is 50 meters long) then when you get back you have to bob again to gain back your breath. Afterwards, you must dive to the bottom to retrieve your mask (with your teeth) and hold it in your mouth with your head above water until the instructors give you the go ahead to get out. Then you have to wait for someone to untie you so you can get out. The whole exercise is for weeding out people who will panic when thrown into water in the worst circumstances. It weeds out a few.

Cold and wet weeds out most. You'd be surprised just how cold you can get in Southern California; especially during Hell Week.

As for drowning the trainees, no. However, my buddy Jeff DID drown during an evolution and was dead for three minutes - he was brought back and graduated with our original class. The evolution he drowned in was one in which you have to tread water with your hands held above your head for ten minutes. The only rub to this is that you're doing it with twin 80's (SCUBA tanks) on your back and full weight belt, gear etc. Apparently he hyperventilated and just slid under. But he ended up being all right.

In between all of this fun you have classes teaching you dive physics, weapons, tidal problems, explosives... All of the good stuff. 🙂

The bad stuff would be losing nine friends in ten years. I don't know if any of you remember the story of Neil "Fifi" Roberts who we lost in Afghanistan, but he was one of my platoon mates.

If any of you are interested in some Hell Week stuff, I've got some pix on my "being rehabilitated" website right here.

Steve

 

[ndee]

scauffiel: all I can say is: holy-friggin'-moly

 

[QueHuong]

scauffiel, obviously SEALs are the epitome of toughness and fitness; I get the idea of how much bronze, but how much brains does it take to be a SEAL? And it would be helpful if you could compare it to what college students learn, if the comparison can be made in the first place. Like do SEALs have to learn projectile motion to be able to shoot a bazooka and stuff like that.

And how does one even start to become a SEAL? Like however many years of military service, or recommendation from your officer, stuff like that.

 

[Maleficus]

K so im looking through and i find this.

Is it REALLY the navy seal workout?

 

[Whisper]

The only thing that I've heard about any sort of special training is that for the Army Ranger program, you sign a waiver heading in that grants your instructors permission to break one major and one minor bone. No idea to the truth behind it, but I'd believe it.

 

[slycat]

whats 8:30?

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: scauffiel
Just to bring this back up for a couple more answers... I forgot and didn't mention drownproofing last night during my post. Drownproofing is ONE way of becoming more comfortable in the water. Your hands are tied behind your back, and your feet are tied together. You have to be able to float for (IIRC) ten minutes, then you have to be able to bob for another ten. Once you're done bobbing, you have to swim 100 meters, still tied up (the tank/pool we train in is 50 meters long) then when you get back you have to bob again to gain back your breath. Afterwards, you must dive to the bottom to retrieve your mask (with your teeth) and hold it in your mouth with your head above water until the instructors give you the go ahead to get out. Then you have to wait for someone to untie you so you can get out. The whole exercise is for weeding out people who will panic when thrown into water in the worst circumstances. It weeds out a few.

Cold and wet weeds out most. You'd be surprised just how cold you can get in Southern California; especially during Hell Week.

As for drowning the trainees, no. However, my buddy Jeff DID drown during an evolution and was dead for three minutes - he was brought back and graduated with our original class. The evolution he drowned in was one in which you have to tread water with your hands held above your head for ten minutes. The only rub to this is that you're doing it with twin 80's (SCUBA tanks) on your back and full weight belt, gear etc. Apparently he hyperventilated and just slid under. But he ended up being all right.

In between all of this fun you have classes teaching you dive physics, weapons, tidal problems, explosives... All of the good stuff. 🙂

The bad stuff would be losing nine friends in ten years. I don't know if any of you remember the story of Neil "Fifi" Roberts who we lost in Afghanistan, but he was one of my platoon mates.

If any of you are interested in some Hell Week stuff, I've got some pix on my "being rehabilitated" website right here.

Steve

I'd bet you could find some of nature's best specimens in the American militaries. 🙂

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: fatbaby

Originally posted by: datalink7

Originally posted by: AthlonXP

Originally posted by: MacBaine

Originally posted by: stevens
I do more exercise than that a week during cross country season.

Well, it is possible, if the guy is insane. There is a dude at my university who is working on his 75 mile run :Q:Q:Q

What the fvck...thats like running from the Staples Center to Ontario Mills!

Halfway from Austin to Houston.. it's impossible.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: MindStorm
scauffiel, obviously SEALs are the epitome of toughness and fitness; I get the idea of how much bronze, but how much brains does it take to be a SEAL? And it would be helpful if you could compare it to what college students learn, if the comparison can be made in the first place. Like do SEALs have to learn projectile motion to be able to shoot a bazooka and stuff like that.

And how does one even start to become a SEAL? Like however many years of military service, or recommendation from your officer, stuff like that.

Intelligence has nothing to do with learning... and I doubt a stupid soldier would do well. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey.

 

[LS20]

this is the exercise

the training regiment to be an actual seal is much much much harder. i jsut saw a 2 hour special on the history channel about it last week. perhaps the biggest kicker of their training is the water temperature. if all their tasks werent hard enough... they had to be done in cold cold water. the dudes were shivering 95% of the time on camera