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How to Make Weight Loss Permanent - By Nicole Terwey USN
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How to Make Weight Loss PermanentBy Nicole TerweyCertified Life Coach, Weight Coach, Fitness Coach, & Lieutenant (USNR) Why is it so difficult to keep the weight off? Losing weight is actually easy, whether you’re in the military or not, but weight loss is more than just losing weight… it’s keeping the weight off. And that’s the real weight problem so many of us face today. We don’t know how to prevent the pounds from coming back on.If we’re overweight, then it’s only because we’re overeating, meaning we’re consuming more food than our body actually needs. When our body receives more food...
Perform a System's Check After Long Bouts with Illness, Injury, or Not Training
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Perform a System's Check After Long Bouts with Illness, Injury, or Not Training After a week or more of recovery from illness, injury, or general lack of physical training, consider giving yourself a “systems check” versus starting back up where you left off prior to time off of training. Recently, I came down with an upper respiratory infection (URI) which turned to bronchitis mainly due to me pushing myself when all I thought I had was just allergies kicking up in the Spring. This caused an immediate shut down of training, antibiotics, and rest. So after about 10 days of...
Pacing Skills For Better PST Scores - Strategy 101
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Pacing Skills For Better PST Scores - Strategy 101 Do You Want a Better PFT Score? Statistically speaking, for most people, the issue is pacing and conditioning / technique. Whether it is running or swimming, these two cardio events require three things to perform optimally – technique, conditioning, and pacing strategy. Here is a question from a special ops candidate who has to do both the 500m swim and the 1.5 mile timed run in his fitness test: Stew, I think my biggest thing with my running and swimming is simply learning to pace myself. I'm sure you see it...
Do You Want a Better PST Score?
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Do You Want a Better PST Score? Statistically Speaking - For Most People the Issue is Swimming Conditioning / Technique. See CSS SWIM: If you are not a swimmer, you are likely pretty good at the other events so the #1 thing to focus on is swimming conditioning - you need to make this swim workout feel easy: Warmup 500yds CSS or free style (mix is fine too) but non-stop. Repeat 10 times Swim freestyle 50m FAST (6-8 strokes per breath) NO REST go into Swim CSS 50m - easy goal pace - try to rest with CSS (get good...
I Want to Join the Navy SEAL program When I Graduate ---- STOP - Read THIS First!
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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...