See 47, and let me add to your comment. The BUD/S screening physical is hard but not too hard, deliberately. A lot of sailors are coming from a destroyer or sub etc. To start them off on day one at a third-month pace (in any activity, running, swimming etc) would mean that the sailors who just spent months in shore duty working out all day would have way too much of an advantage, but really proving nothing but that they started in better shape. The run/swim/o-course times decrease weekly, while the calisthenic reps increase. It’s more mental than physical, if by physical you mean run/swim times. It’s the heart and the mindset that cound much more. And not having an phobias or weaknesses. They must be well rounded. A olympian stud with an achilles heel will NOT make it.
They must be well rounded. A olympian stud with an achilles heel will NOT make it.
Yep...
My achilles heel was that I found out I was a little clostraphobic (sp?)...
They were interested in how it made me feel, I simply told them I felt like I always needed to know I had a way out of something...I could take getting into something tight, but I just needed a way out...
Its another reason I didn’t go to Subs...
I still felt like I had a great career though...Learned a lot, experienced a lot, served with some great people all up and down the chain...
If they ever could create a pill for clostraphobia, my career could have taken a different path...