Posted on 03/31/2014 7:34:26 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Training for U.S. Navy SEALs, the special operations force, follows a warrior tradition that harkens back to Samurais, but fitness experts say the tough regime is gaining popularity with entrepreneurs, corporate executives, lawyers and elite athletes.
The workout, geared toward mental as well as physical transformation, is so demanding that the casual gym-goer looking to shed 10 pounds before swimsuit season need not apply.
“We look at training as being as important to our life as eating and sleeping,” said retired Navy SEAL commander and fitness instructor Mark Divine, the author of “8 Weeks to SEALFIT: a Navy Seal’s Guide to Unconventional Training for Physical and Mental Toughness.”
SEALFIT draws on the varied, high-intensity interval training of CrossFit, Olympic weightlifting, plyometrics, powerlifting, gymnastics, calisthenics, strongman exercises, yoga, and martial arts.
“CrossFit is baked into the SEALFIT model,” said Divine, “but our workouts are much longer: two hours if you go through the whole thing.”
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Good luck with THAT!
Thnx
Bought the book and the intro is a bit to handle for my A.D.D.
LOL
After I finish my 1st three months of P90x I’ll switch to Sealfit.
Yeah. Because the one thing that made me the systems administrator I am is getting up at 0400 and running through the surf with seven buddies carrying a telephone pole.
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