All Navy SEALs must attend and graduate from their rating's 24-week A School known as Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) school, a basic parachutist course and then the 26-week SEAL Qualification Training program.
Chemical energy that is stored in food molecules is released through cellular respiration. Part of this energy is kept as adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Although fats, proteins and carbohydrates can also be used as fuel for cellular respiration, glucose is most commonly used as an example. Keep Learning.
Other reactions and pathways then capture the energy in the chemical bonds of the breakdown product, pyruvic acid. ATP stores the released energy. Textbook Reading Assignment: Pages 119 - 122 The process of glucose metabolism involves 4 stages: 1) The first stage is known as glycolysis.