Navy SEAL Workout Series (1 of 5): The Need For Speed

[OsamaBoobLadin]

glad im a competitive swimmer and swim 5km a day, also a cross country runner and and run around 5 miles a day on average and im blowin the minimum standards for the pst's out of the water

[fredhelp2]

swimming is hard as hell for me but those sprints are easy for football we had to run a hundred yards in 30 seconds for 12 minuets straight, it was probably the hardest thing ive done for sports ever

[nateparrish92]

@fredhelp2 that's easy as hell



[TheDrummerboi94]

Lol boowee :L it's Buoy!! pronounced BUOY

[voltronomy]

I'm a sophomore in highschool, i'm on the swim team, that isn't tough at all

[newlife4me2day]

@voltronomy you're full of shit

[daowenster]

@voltronomy Same, hahahaha that swimming and running is a piece of cake !!!!

[movetrailersinhd]

the only reason i can swim good is because i was instructed by an ex navy seal since i was around the age of 6 months

[56lespaul56]

how do i contact one of these guys?????

[FadeToBlack1911]

The dude swimming needs to bend his elbows more, small technique that makes a big difference.

[djorourke94]

Is breast stroke or freestyle used more during buds?

[MrWendellsowersiii]

@djorourke94 combat side stroke usually

[haaatz]

Never seen an instructor smiling while giving instruction.

[AudioMayhem100]

i dont have a hill or a pool ^_^

[mdr3w]

S shape movement, ummm NO! You dont try to do the S, your body does it when you roll automatically... Dont try to make an S or you will not be able to swim as a beginner.

Second, the guy in the video is not swimming very well, do not imitate him! Make sure you reach, putting your hand in the water just before it is fully extended.

Other than that, do what the guy says. OO, remember to breath off the start, I can swim 50yards starting off without breathing, will it last? No!

[beamerball666]

Unfortunately I live in New York so we don't have berm's but there are some pretty nice size hills so I'll use those plus there's a hill right next to the gym I go to which has a pool hooray

[jissyk1111]

im in a swim team and i do thousands of that hahah easy crap xD

[jadejaden1]

My God! i met Goggins at our Water polo team SEALS hell week!

[heavensent1993]

QUESTION:

What if we can't swim without our nose pulled??

I got time to learn but Im just wondering

[CoolSEAL142]

@heavensent1993 do you meen u cant keep ur nose under water? wen u swim just blow air out using ur nose and wen move ur head to breath just repeat every few strokes eventuently you will get it i couldnt keep my head in the water when i was on my schools swim team the 1st week of practice but after a few weeks i did get it and now i keep my head in the water, and trust me you will notice a difference! lol

[heavensent1993]

@CoolSEAL142

Yeah I can't swim with my nose in the water. I always hold my nose like when I jump in the water..

But Ok thanks for your advice!

[CoolSEAL142]

@heavensent1993 yeah no problem at all!, lol didnt know that was actually helpful!

[heavensent1993]

@CoolSEAL142

Well, To me anything is helpful, because I'll be joining in 17 months after HS. So Yeah advice is helpful thank you.

[animal9651]

@heavensent1993 my advice is if you can't do the competitive scores before you sign the paper work, then hold off until your in the best shape.

[heavensent1993]

@animal9651

Thanks. I'm in pretty good shape right now. But I can swim pretty fast.

[CoolSEAL142]

@heavensent1993 nice! good luck!

[HoIlowhead]

Indian Run: group run in single file formation whereas last man in pack sprints to point. Once in lead, last man sprints to front and then this sequence is repeated without break until run conclusion. Great team-building workout that should help to improve the weakest link.

[SolLyte]

AMERICA!

[blackyblackblack505]

Did he just call me a weekend warrior? 

[4lphebet]

@knowles747 Try Poseidon

[Donutz720]

those are some half-ass sprints

[kasem1065]

@Donutz720 Try running in sand, not easy.

[MrHellblazer1226]

I bet in BUDS they make you do this 100x more

[FSPKREW]

just run up a sand dune



[Kerenskyz15]

ITS DAVID GOGGINS! He is my hero

[Epidemic169]

ok... so i live in florida... where can i find a berm?

[Kerenskyz15]

@Epidemic169

Find a dike or something

[SnipetoSurvive]

@Epidemic169 did you really just ask that question? haha

[Epidemic169]

@SnipetoSurvive yes i really just asked that question... florida is the flattest state in america and the particular part i live in is very suburban and flat

[Jisamaniac]

For those who use this video an model on how to swim here is some corrections.

The instructor does a good job explaining how to swim, but the gentlemen in the video isn't swimming very efficiently.

1. His kicks needs to snap more, than trying to muscle his way through the water. 2 .His arms need to be on the side of his head, not the middle.

3. He needs to roll into his arm w/ his head, which creates a much smoother flow while swimming and uses less energy.

3 yr college and 1 yr USMS.

GL

[moviedude22]

@Jisamaniac roll his arm with his head? and what do you mean His arms need to be on the side of his head, not the middle...middle of what?

[henry6697]

@moviedude22 middle of the balls lol XD

[wolf171717]

why swim when u could drown? jk i have always loved swimming and the seals want to go to a naval academy then officers school then off to buds training.

[CheifOsceola]

According to my parents(since i cant remember), I could swim before i could walk. Navy S.E.A.L.s here i come

[nobodynoth55]

@CheifOsceola With floaties on? lol obviously that qualifies you right there

[arjont]

i leaned to swim really late, at 23, but i'm sure as hell glad i did, cuz swimming is awesome!

[nlytend1]

@arjont i'm learning now and i'm 21, and i thought i was late.

[bwrarr]

i remember learly drowning, so this is a hellll naa

[chsiao999]

I like how they dumb the exercises so much. People will start to think this is what the real training is like. It's not. Taking a minute rest between those short sprints is incredibly easy. In the Navy, you might run 20 and take a 60 second rest. Then repeat for hours on end. I'm not in the navy, but I can assure you this is not an easy ordeal.

[rxtony05]

definitley want to be the guy in front for the berm sprint lol

[AgentSpiral]

Isn't Petty officer Goggins in the Navys global force for good commercial as the seal operator?

[nobodynoth55]

@AgentSpiral yeah he is, he's also an ultramarathoner, biker, triathlete etc etc... very cool guy saw him a month ago in person did a workout with him 2 groups each did over 600pushups, jumpingjacks, leglevers and otherstuff he ran each one with perfect form back to back! without a doubt the most overall inshape individual I have seen in my life very cool guy to talk to too!

[AgentSpiral]

@nobodynoth55 That sounds like an awesome experience! I can only imagine what meeting a man like that would be. If he could be a Greek God it would have to be the "God of Fitness" or something ha.

[knowles747]

@AgentSpiral paciden god of the sea



[00Avenger17]

i disagree with the "rolling motion" im a swimmer for my whole life and i find that its unnecessary and a waste of energy - it also slows you down.....however you will always have a small amount of rolling (this is natural) but encouraging it isnt good xD just sayin..... =P

[idonotneedanidforyou]

David Goggins is the man

[shaneclone15]

i cant swim for shit!!

[ati7498]

@shaneclone15 practice makes perfect!!!!

[reinder666]

@shaneclone15 If you compare yourself to a SEAL you will get your morale downXD

[saltydog78]

@shaneclone15 I couldn't swim either

until..........

[zommer184]

@shaneclone15 then dont join

[philipinoidiot]

aggg... i really wish i can learn how to swim.....

[dkerris]

@philipinoidiot Try your local YMCA or public pool.  It's never too late to learn how to swim.

[N1k1mon]

in the "days" before. It's amazing how much endurance you build, wind is everything, that's why weight lifting doesn't mean shit in boot camp/BUD/s. Always good to start off with a good solid strength to your body though, it's good to alternate from body building to calisthenics and mix it up if you're in good enough shape like they show you in the other vids.

[N1k1mon]

Hooyah! After a few months down time I started the 12 weeks to BUD/s training program in the Complet Guide To Navy SEAL Fitness by Stew Smith. It's been a while since I went through this program and I remember how tough little things like those sprints can be when you've done thousands of pushups, pullups, running, lunges and squats in the data before

[felipipi]

You guys know the enemy is watching this videos and learning from american soldiers.

[icychillgrill3]

@felipipi no they cant keep up too american too hard too SEAL have a little confidence

[thanatos71209]

@felipipi yea i can see "the enemy" as you so eloquently put it, spending their time watching seal vids on youtube.

[nobodynoth55]

@felipipi gimme a fucking break you know how much of this shit is public knowledge! Watch discovery class 234 follows a bud/s class all the way through bud/s other countries openly talk about training with each other too. The so called "enemy" puts explosives in his underwear on a plane and blows his dick off! have'nt got the sophistication to do hardly any of this shit to where it'd matter besides shooting AKs and RPGs n shit

[nephildevil]

swimming, been ages since i done that

i'd prolly just sink like a goddamn brick

[docanimal]

Guys dipping on one arm and reaching the other! very por stroke!!

[tooner123456789]

the guy demonstrating the freestyle doesnt reach far enough. hes trying too hard

[icychillgrill3]

@tooner123456789 That "guy" is Dvid Goggins he runs ultra marathons and is a supreme SEAL most SEALs do not top him.

[wrinkleypp]

This is 10 intervals of 25m sprints with rest in between each lap right?

[SilentGhostFighter]

nicest seal instructor...

[shoegazer666]

why is the instructor wearing a permanent scowl?

[I77uminatus]

@shoegazer666 because hes a seal

[Muha00013]

If you go in the navy your a chicken. If you mean the navy seals yes you get to learn how to swim. And you learn how in the regular navy too because if you have to abandon ship you have to know how to swim

[Casil3as]

Do you get to learn how to swim in the military? I dont know how to swim but i want to join the Navy would I get to learn there?

[tooner123456789]

@Casil3as i would highly suggest you learn to swim before joining the navy.

[zestfultuba]

@Casil3as yes. you do!

[jjcraig999]

These are great workouts, I just went out to my 25 meter pool in my backyard and did 10 laps, then I hopped out and ran accross over to my sand berm to do my berms sprints, yeah, I just keep this stuff around just in case.

[lilolzers]

They make running look more complicated.

[ALLaroundMEH]

When doing free make your kick smaller. This will make it faster and smoother thru the water. Also bring ur elbow high up above your shoulders and slice the water. When you pull don't drop your elbow too early. Keep it up to make the most out of your pull. It will also help with the rotation of your body.

[Blodge86]

Also, if you're trying for speed, kick with your hips, not your knees. Your legs should remain straight with your toes pointed behind you. This is also to keep you long and lean to reduce drag, and your hips will give you stronger propulsion than your knees.

[romerieger]

Go Army.. BEAT NAVY

[flyer3008]

i can handle runninn n swimmin continuously but i'm weak when it comes to upper body exercises such as pullups and rope climbs. i struggle to do 2. i can't even get on a rope coz my hand pains...

[1234trance]

What about the breathing technique in the freestyle? Most techniques say turn your head to the side after every 3 strokes.

[Blodge86]

@1234trance That's perfect, or try every other stroke to start off with.

[gunvor69]

I wish I had a pool to train in

[inf1nity]

hate to burst the bubble for all of the "captains of the swim team" but this isn't supposed to be a demanding workout. It's more than likely designed to begin getting someone in to seal shape who has just been sitting on their ass all summer. If you wanna flaunt ur muscles, sign up for the navy, go through basic and then try and get into the seals. You'll find out you gotta be a whole lot more than a good swimmer. kthxbai!

[johntaig]

I dont have a hill :(

[guitarlover31011]

lol what if we live in kansas

[bredxforxwar]

Lt. DeCoster seems too nice to be an instructor. haha but im sure hes not like that in at BUD/s.

[xthexTxvirusx]

do the seals hold their weapons at low ready during training?

[bikepeddlar6]

how do u lean forward on ur ankles?

[StanGrunder]

good vid, just dont cross your hands over in the freestyle like the guy was

[dethbang13]

their are no hills in florida!!!!

[hakeemawwad]

@dethbang13 hav u been to pensacola?

[scottisacow]

I live in hill country, but when I need a hill... You get the point. I'm going to stop commenting and get out there and work.

[ybya923]

i suppose you're a SEAL then? if not, you're in no position to act tough over the internet.

fyi my original comment merely noted the extreme simplicity of the swimming instruction - an observation any swimmer would make. so calm down.

[deadhead507461]

Nope, not a SEAL. YET. leaving for basic in a few weeks.

I bet you find this "amusing", but I am sure many SEALs, or SEALs in training have not been collegiate swimmers. So this instruction does help a lot.

[ybya923]

i envy you. i'm strongly considering it. do well man don't quit.

[rockgollem]

LOL running shoes AND swim gear...

We gonna run in swim gear now and swim with shoes on! LOL

[ybya923]

as a collegiate swimmer, i find the swim instruction quite amusing.

[deadhead507461]

your just so awesome.

[ybya923]

yeah

[captaincabeman]

@ybya923 hahaha. i agree. i'm the same way. captain of my swim team and so this is nothing. 10 25 sprints? that's practically a warm-up.

[SMWhit3out]

@captaincabeman Its a real beginners video to getting into seal shape after doing this for a couple years. rofl

[ralez20]

@captaincabeman THAT'S GREAT!! You'll complete BUD/s in no time! Congratulations because swimming is all you need to do to be a SEAL. Go to Coronado and tell the UDT/SEAL Instructors you are captain of your swim team, and prepare to receive a gift basket...right after they make you get wet and sandy for being an idiot and wasting their time.

[simbaslayer]

@ybya923 I just finished my career as a collegiate decathlete. I find these swim workouts challenging. I just started doing them but i have never swam competitively before. I know I need some coaching bad. i also find the burm sprint funny but to some it is a good workout.

[ballsauce666]

@chrism95

Tae Bo with Billy Blanks in Gaza.

.

[rbo7]

@chrism95 good god....i do those for warm ups

[SmokingOneTwo]

@chrism95 I do all that AND spell breakfast correctly.

[snap1o3]

you swim 25 metres 10 times while smoking? Damn, those must be some advanced, water-proof cigarettes

[ballsauce666]

@snap1o3

I keep my head and 1 arm above water

[00998ish]

can u be a ranger and a seal???

[monimstarfox]

@00998ish

sure just dont tell the rangers and dont tell the seals

[King0Fr0g]

@00998ish David Goggins Has been to ranger school

P.S. to get your trident it takes almost 2 years you would'nt want to get the ranger tab and deal with Army B.S. plus for the SEALs that don't make it through Ranger School they are usually kicked out of the SEALs. and Rangers cannot go to BUD/s.only members of the US Navy that are citizens and males between 17-28 are eligible

[theLEGENDARYoneTC]

thats a buff dude

[tomfunfun0530]

yeay my dad told me that they have to go through interrogation training he told me that they cruched his whole hand in a pipe crusher then took a knife and dug it into his broken fingers and much worse i hope i become a seal one day to

[UsNavyHooyah]

@tomfunfun0530 That's not at all accurate. They do SERE school, but the instructors would never willingly maim an SO during training.

[AgentNapkin]

Oh wait, never mind.

[MikeTysonEatsKids]

I am 22. I would have loved to have done this. ;-(

[tdo79]

Why the past tense? If that is what you want to do, but up and do it sailor!

[tomfunfun0530]

my dad was a navy seal and he told me they go through toture is this true

[sneakaholic011]

David Goggins came to J Rob (a 28 day wrestling camp in minnesota) this past summer and told us about his story and about the SEALs. He and the other seals really inspired me to want to become one as well.

[moviedude22]

what story's did he/they tell?

[rugby4lifeger]

dont stop to move your legs when you are breathing! Navy seals kick ass! I am in the GSG 9 and trained for 2 month with navy seals they are some hard trained fellas!

[prowe89]

It was President Kennedy who was responsible for the rebuilding of the Special Forces and giving us back our Green Beret said Forrest Lindley, a writer for the newspaper Stars and Stripes who served with Special Forces in Vietnam. People were sneaking around wearing it when conventional forces weren't in the area and it was sort a cat and mouse game he recalled. When Kennedy authorized the Green Beret as a mark of distinction

[UrbanNiceties]

Dude, just type these terms into google and do some research... it would make you look *less* like an idiot *more* often.

Also, you're applying US military terms - Green Berets, Rangers, etc. - to the British, who have a different system altogether. I'm from Canada and we don't have all of that either... we pretty much have military regulars and the next jump up is Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2) (though I'm sure we have some specialist groups in there somewhere).

[UrbanNiceties]

(That was directed to prowe89)

[STIMP422]

i feel like these guys arent legit navy seals

[prowe89]

Well if you knew anything about the Military you would know that Britian also has an Army and where there's an Army there's Army Rangers and Green Berets. and if you knew anything about SAS you would know that they recruit soliders from the Army and Marines you cant just go for SAS you have to be picked or already be a badass and apply....so theres your lesson.....next time dont act like you know about branches of Military, when you really dont know shit!!!!

[prowe89]

Bear Grylls was a Green Beret bro!!

[youvegotmoobs]

as someone who is in the process of joining the royal marines i can tell you for a fact that the royal marines train for 32 weeks witch is 8 months of sheer hell i suppose you could call it torture but its nothing compared to what the sas do the royal marines have a pass rate of 30% if it was any longer than 8 months no body would pass

the navy seals are spec ops and the rmc are elite infantry thers a huge difference

its like comparing the usmc to the sas

[MareBellator]

Bear Grylls, your f*cking kidding me. His show is a fucking joke you should know that and some of the stories from when he was in the SAS he made up. He's never seen any action in his time as a soldier. I prefer surviorman anyways because you actually learn something from Les Stroud. Enough about Bear, SEAL's and Army SF's train around the world too, nothing specail about the SBS and SAS.

[MareBellator]

SBS are no better than SEAL's trust me on that one. And SEAL's have arctic training longer than the SBS because they also train in Alaska for a long period. SAS and SBS trainees have to go elsewhere b/c the UK doesn't have that kind of weather, so they train less in arctic conditions.

[MareBellator]

Umm Royal Marines aren't Special forces and they are in no way better than SEAL's.

[pnoyjc18]

Navy SEAL training is over 2 1/2 years

412 weeks Naval Special Warfare Preparatory School (enlisted men)

3 weeks Indoctrination

24 weeks Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)

4 1/2 weeks Parachute training

16 weeks of SEAL Qualification Training

(all that alone is a little over a year and that's not all)

SEAL Platoon Training is 18 months

[prowe89]

2 - 3 weeks Indoctrination Course at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado

24 weeks of BUD/S training at the Naval Special Warfare Center, Naval Amphibious Base Coronado

15 weeks SEAL Qualification Training

including 4 weeks Cold Weather Survival Training at Kodiak, Alaska

2 weeks level C SERE School[citation needed

3 week Basic Airborne Static-line jump school at Ft. Benning, GA

3 weeks HALO parachute training at the Military Free-Fall Training Center, MCAS Yuma, AZ

[ericinghammontevista]

1. 5 weeks Indoctrination Course

2. 27 weeks of BUDs

3. 5 weeks JOTC( for officers )

4. 3 weeks Army Airborne School

5. 1 week Range Supervisor( for officers )

6. 1 week Diving Supervisor( for officers )

7. 15 weeks SEAL Qualification Training

8. 3 weeks SERE Level C

9. 18 months SEAL Platoon Training

[prowe89]

naw buddy I got my list from my Spec Ops/SEAL recruiter. Its where and what you have to go through to become a SEAL(not officers). I did leave 18 months SEAL Platoon Training out, my bad, thats a pretty major part of it... hahaha

[ericinghammontevista]

my stepdad is a chief petty officer with team 3, thats where i got my list

[KnoxSUX]

My dad was a Commander in team three ......during Vietnam though.

[ericinghammontevista]

there was no team during vietnam. only teams one and two existed during vietnam.

[prowe89]

hell yea is that a recent list because I got mine 3/30/09 when I first join the Navy so some of the stuff might be outdated. thats badass bro, I got mad respect for your stepdad!!!!HOOYAH brother

[ericinghammontevista]

no yours is more recent. i got mine in may of '08

[97459579]

i just relised how unfit i am

[bishopdante]

well, the funny thing is the tests are so different for SAS and SEALs, and TBH their roles are different.

The US guys do a lot of messing around in pools etc. The SAS get dropped in the middle of nowhere unarmed, and the british army hunts them around with live ammunition. If they manage to survive for a few days, then it's onto torture. If you survive the torture, then you're in son.

[zF15z]

its not torture - it's stress positions, white noise and unfamiliar surroundings, its as close to real torture as it can get..

First its Brecon Beacons, then evasion, then jungle, then jump school.

Hardly anyone will fail on jump school though...

[bishopdante]

hehehe, I was being impressionistic rather than literal.

[lazawrcat666]

actually jump school is quite hard, HALO and HAHO jumps into freezing water at night is tough.

[zF15z]

i am not talking about seals, i am talking about the sas. Jump school, whilst a challenge, very few fail on because they have already got this far.

[crazy87jim]

it's not torture, it's interrogation and rough handling, they can't assault you so as to leave any kind of mark

[youvegotmoobs]

you dont need to hit someone to torture them for example stand in a squat possition with youre hands out in front of you with a bag on youre head while some one screams profanities about youre mother down your ear and see how long you can do it for i recon you could do it for about 40 seconds at most to pass into the sas youd have to do that for hours on end with no food etc etc then they question you while your tired an dissorientated and if you say anything other than name rank number you fail

[crazy87jim]

@youvegotmoobs

I'm not the one conflating morality with legality, I was simply asserting that the tactical questioning phase of selection adheres to the geneva convention.

[cplmatt4]

That is wrong.

[bishopdante]

Mmm, Ok, just to clarify what I was getting at... this navy seal business seems to have a kinda sports attitude, the practise of war as a sport is kinda perverse hahaha. I do feel that the SAS aren't quite as, how do we say, high-tech sports science. They seem to be all about do or die flavour, and seem to constantly be reminding the viewer "war is hell". It's a question of vibe, really

[300MUSIC]

this is why I WANT A POOL

[JTucker3]

The SAS has the highest quitrate, and the highest success rate of those special forces we know of so far.;P

[boberbobofbobland]

well not the remotely controlled plane

[DarkessDays]

sprints in the sand is a bitch

[verasok]

Or you can go to Silver Strand beach in Coronado...;-) if you can.

[usns92595]

dude im want to be a seal so badly.....i can swim like this and im only 13

[irlsarge]

that guy is a brillient swimmer its looks so smooth and silent, ha you should see me im more like a propeler with all the noise i make. ah well

[7kevin4life]

dude, your names "alien investigator". people aren't gonna take you too seriously...

[alieninvestigator]

yeah, i know, isnt it possible to change it? i have it since i was 12! but dont wonna change account,,,

[7kevin4life]

haha I suck w computers so i have no idea how. but i feel your pain i've changed accounts quite a few times for names from when i was younger...

[kickinassiniraq]

would you please go stick a baretta m9 in your mouth all ofg you consperiacy theoriacts!

[alvcardvx]

Navy seals are so good they actually respawn back in the ship if they get killed.

[danielnesur]

que feo que nada el "NAVY SEAL"!!! esperaba mas....