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I thought they should use a 5 count on the burpee.
1-drop
2-legs out
3-pushup
4-legs back in
5-jump
No wonder they couldn't stay on the count, they're doing a move with no count to it... but no one noticed. They might have saved themselves a lot of burpees if they had.
So much for the first quitter being in 20 min.

Burpees are freakin hard... doing 30 in a minute is pretty tiring even if you're rested and warm.

So, which olympians do you think would be best at this? Rowers are brutally fit, as are the cyclists. Decathletes?

I've always been under the impression this is way more a psychological thing than being fit. I'm guessing there are loads of people fit enough that don't make it as a seal.
Although i guess that doesn't answer your question.

Not just cardiac fitness though (and of course, the mental toughness requirement).

But one of the things is that later in BUDS/SEALS training, the boat teams have to lift a boat up over their heads (and logs too) and carry them on sand. This is a non-trivial requirement for upper body strength...

So: I don't know. Maybe, just maybe, decathletes?

For me, the interesting question is "does this kind of training actually benefit an athlete?"

I'm obviously not an olympian or a coach, but I'm not sure it does.

As a one-off team building exercise, maybe, but on a regular basis, I doubt that it would be more effective than "normal" training. Basically, if this was actually beneficial to an athletes performance, people would be doing it.

Yeah, like the SEAL said, athletes don't need to be physically prepared for life and death situations 24-hours a day. I mean, that SEAL training ramps up to "hell week" where they basically train 20-hours a day to simulate an extended combat engagement. No athlete needs that level of mental/physical endurance excluding maybe ironman race participants and even then that kind of training is likely overkill.

They only trained for 3 minutes and 30 seconds?

Seemed like so much longer in the video.

I may have subbed seconds for minutes ETC....SORRY!

i was stationed at NaS jax for a few months for S.A.R training and i got to witness some of the training seals have to endure,and also heard first hand from some of the seal members (who all have to be S.A.R qualified).

it makes boot camp look like a romp in disneyland.