I think you are SEVERELY underestimating how tough just boot camp is. Navy SEALs are special forces man, these guys fucking eat babies and shit. I have a brother-in-law who’s in the marines and he even said you don’t fuck with those guys.
Just try surviving a couple of days, don’t worry about your own lifting.
I seriously doubt you’ll make it, you don’t come off as someone with the mental fortitude. But if you do, you should use my severe doubt as motivation.
dont you like need to have a certain amount of military experience before you can even try out?
[quote]motherofpearl wrote:
BlackLabel wrote:
What is GI Jane [/quote]
a complete fantasy movie getting womens empowerment activists all riled up and motivated to become big bad navy seals.
alot of ppl underestimate just how hard it is. they have a 95% dropout rate or sum shit.
oh yeah, and they sum pirate killers.
Dude…I dont know where to start. First, my best friend growing up is a SEAL and I was going to try for it but found out Im minorly color deficient, thus eliminating me from it all. I grew up in military schools and wanted that to be my life.
You have no idea what youre getting into. From the famous hell week, a week without sleep where they just run you into the ground, to surf torture, and just the nature of BUD/S.
With how little preparation youve done, you will guarunteed be mopping decks somewhere. Im tickled by the idea that you think youll have time to lift and train like somehow you wont have the ever living shit kicked out of you daily and fall asleep the minute you hit a rack.
SEALS are a direct action unit, and the stories my buddy tells me are the shit they write movies about. Force Recon/DSAR and SEALs are USA’s SOF top dogs.
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
I think you are SEVERELY underestimating how tough just boot camp is. Navy SEALs are special forces man, these guys fucking eat babies and shit. I have a brother-in-law who’s in the marines and he even said you don’t fuck with those guys.
Just try surviving a couple of days, don’t worry about your own lifting.
I seriously doubt you’ll make it, you don’t come off as someone with the mental fortitude. But if you do, you should use my severe doubt as motivation.[/quote]
SEALs are not Special Forces. Special Forces(aka. Green Berets) are Army and have a completely different mission/skill set.
[quote]abcd1234 wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
I think you are SEVERELY underestimating how tough just boot camp is. Navy SEALs are special forces man, these guys fucking eat babies and shit. I have a brother-in-law who’s in the marines and he even said you don’t fuck with those guys.
Just try surviving a couple of days, don’t worry about your own lifting.
I seriously doubt you’ll make it, you don’t come off as someone with the mental fortitude. But if you do, you should use my severe doubt as motivation.
SEALs are not Special Forces. Special Forces(aka. Green Berets) are Army and have a completely different mission/skill set. [/quote]
My bad, my point still stands, they’re hardcore motherfuckers.
[quote]abcd1234 wrote:
That One Guy wrote:
I think you are SEVERELY underestimating how tough just boot camp is. Navy SEALs are special forces man, these guys fucking eat babies and shit. I have a brother-in-law who’s in the marines and he even said you don’t fuck with those guys.
Just try surviving a couple of days, don’t worry about your own lifting.
I seriously doubt you’ll make it, you don’t come off as someone with the mental fortitude. But if you do, you should use my severe doubt as motivation.
SEALs are not Special Forces. Special Forces(aka. Green Berets) are Army and have a completely different mission/skill set. [/quote]
Yup. SF vs. SOF.
Whole thread is an “epic fail”, as the kids say. OP, read a book or two. Or even maybe just try using that Google thing everyone is talking about.
Whole thread is an “epic fail”, as the kids say. OP, read a book or two. Or even maybe just try using that Google thing everyone is talking about.[/quote]
yea, Dr.Google!
The other thing you have to realize is that even if you do make it through all that training… and the years of training while you’re in the navy - itll take its toll on your body especially your knees, back and elbows. Once you’re a SEALs, Special Forces, Recon or Grunt, you don’t do that shit for very long… you’ll be working a desk job with a disability check in no time.
whatever.
if every motherfucker who came on this board who ‘thought about trying out for the special forces’ made it, we’d have division sized element of spec ops.
if you are coming onto this board with these kinds of questions, you are clearly not prepared for entry into buds/selection/etc.
You know, I say go for it. Hopefully people on this board will have pissed you off enough to make it. Every time you think of quitting, just think back to proving every one of us right (I don’t think you’ve got it either) and the amound of ridicule you’ll get if you show your face around here again.
See if that drives you on.
If you are serious, hang around the war room for a bit, PM a few people who’ve been through selection. I’d suggest PM’ing Renton, but I have a feeling he’d eat you for breakfast (after he’s spent the night having his way with you).
Look up Barefoot Fitness and Craig Weller (I think that’s his name). Drop him an email and ask him about it. Read some of the articles he’s written about his time in the forces, then see if you think you’ve got what it takes.
[quote]Roual wrote:
You know, I say go for it. Hopefully people on this board will have pissed you off enough to make it. Every time you think of quitting, just think back to proving every one of us right (I don’t think you’ve got it either) and the amound of ridicule you’ll get if you show your face around here again.
See if that drives you on.
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lol, if his biggest motivation factor is whether or not he’s going to prove the T-Nation board right or wrong, i doubt he’d make it past 1st roll call.
alright actually it was funny finding this thread the time i did…if your serious about attempting to be on the teams pm me
lol, if his biggest motivation factor is whether or not he’s going to prove the t.nation board right or wrong, i doubt he’d make it past 1st roll call.
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yea he should join up for real reasons like college money and those cool NAVY commercials with Godsmack playing in the background.
[quote]motherofpearl wrote:
Hey guys im thinking of trying out for the navy seals. One thing that I am scared of is not being able to work out,eat right and sleep enough. Anyone know how they work out with weights and If you heard about Hell Week were you only get 4 hours of sleep a week for a week which could not be good for your workout. Anyone Know?[/quote]
Get a log about 4 ft. long and about 4 in. diameter. Find a hill and run up, walk down. When you do vomit, rinse, then do shuttle runs from 10 to 40 yds on flat ground, drop and do 10 pushups after each. When you get the dry heaves, hydrate and your done.
Then at 9 A.M… 
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
lol, if his biggest motivation factor is whether or not he’s going to prove the t.nation board right or wrong, i doubt he’d make it past 1st roll call.
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Hey, people find motivation in the strangest places. Maybe being riddiculed by everyone he mentions it too is enough for him.
I’m all for people going after their dreams, but to try to be on your own lifting program while also going through one of the most brutal military training programs in the world isn’t realistic. Pick one or the other, but not both.
[quote]motherofpearl wrote:
I know they do not train you with weights but are you able to work out with weights. Like in football you train football but still able to work out with weights.[/quote]
This has to be a troll. No one could really be like this.
I’ll tell you right now amigo, you ain’t joining the SEALS. They’d be too scared that you’d infect the rest of the recruits with The Retardenza.
You won’t make it.
Here is reality. You will wake up whenever the drill seargent wakes you up. You will eat when the drill seargent says you can eat, and you will sleep when the drill seargent says you can sleep. I don’t think they account for your workout schedule.
For a general idea of some of the training/punishment these SEAL guys go through during hell week, there are a lot of Discovery Channel and A&E specials on it. Of course its TV and you can never be sure its 100% accurate, but I think it gives you a general indication of how insanely tough the training is.
Some highlights (maybe some actual military guys here can confirm/dispute these)
-Swimming 3km through freezing San Diego bay wearing boots
-“Drown-proofing”, where instructors try and dunk you underwater until you’re near unconscious
-Jogging down the beach in teams, hoisting a giant log over your head
-Treading water in a 20 foot deep pool with a weight plate between your feet. You drop it, you have to dive down and retrieve it
-Going several days with a combined total of 3 hours of sleep
-And the absolute worst (I’m claustrophobic), being put in a water-filled, pitch black metal tank the size of a small water tower with 5 other trainees, with only handheld air-tanks, and having to find your way out.
This is the version they show you on cable TV. I would imagine the real thing contains a lot more nasty surprises.
I don’t think you’ll have the time or energy for supplementary rhomboid exercises, somehow