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How To Crush the PST! Try the Classic PST Week - Video Referenced Material FREE

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How To Crush the PST!  Try the Classic PST Week - Video Referenced Material FREE

Classic PST Week for Navy SEAL, SWCC, EOD, Diver, Air Rescue Swimmer   Here are the charts I discussed in the following video:  https://youtu.be/PuBbKTCl9xc  Here is the testing week with Double PST:  More about the PST and Beyond Learn how to put it all together - PST CLINIC - Getting TO the TRAINING: MORE PST HELP:  Create a PST Strategy How Bad Do YOu Need a Better PST Score?  Remember - the PST will only guarantee you get TO the Training....Getting THROUGH BUD/S requires much more: See what is "good enough" - PST Type Scores for Spec Ops Training: Now how about your...

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I Want to Join the Navy SEAL program When I Graduate ---- STOP - Read THIS First!

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I Want to Join the Navy SEAL program When I Graduate ---- STOP - Read THIS First!

Near daily, I receive emails from young people seeking to serve and I am so grateful for a new generation seeking to serve, but there are things that you need to learn, practice, and master prior to joining - it may not meet your self-imposed deadline.  See question / answer below: I just finished my freshman year in college but decided the better option for me was to withdraw, and join the Navy - since I am looking to make this my career, and hopefully become an officer later on.  I just got PRK surgery last Thursday, so I am...

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How Good is Good Enough in Spec Ops?

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How Good is Good Enough in Spec Ops?

(Part 2 of this article - What is Good Enough - Strength Numbers) Throughout your journey into the military and perhaps as you move into a special ops selection, you will hear people describing their PT scores as “good”, “great”, “optimal”, or even the occasional “PT animal”. But what is “Good Enough”? Of course, all of these scores are relative to the person, programming, branch of service, and the person evaluating these scores and abilities of candidates.  As a tactical fitness trainer with decades of this type of training, this article is going to try to add some objectivity to...

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So You Wanna Be a Frogman? READ THIS FOR STARTERS

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So You Wanna Be a Frogman? READ THIS FOR STARTERS

  A Starter Kit for Teens Seeking Special Ops Program in their future.    #1 - Do Your Research:                                           So You Wanna Be a Frogman? Well are you ready?  Are you preparing yourself?  Have you ASSESSED  your performance?  Identified Weaknesses? Have you already enlisted in DEP and trying to pass the PST? Are you wondering where to start? How about this - do your research.  You should know what the PST is and practice it long before you walk...

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Tactical Fitness - Explained (Compared to Athletics / Sports Specific Training)

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Tactical Fitness - Explained (Compared to Athletics / Sports Specific Training)

The term “tactical” does get used a little too often to maybe differentiate something that is normal as “military grade” or just “tacti-cool”. About ten years ago the term “tactical” was used and applied to a genre of fitness that I had been focused on for decades – military, law enforcement, and fire fighter / EMT fitness.  Comparing tactical fitness to normal athletics has been discussed. Comparing tactical fitness as another form of “sports specific” training is also a path many subscribe to. However, the similarities and differences are real and are easily confused. I look at it this way....

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