The Secret Benefits of Fitness Training – Star Factory Fitness
Many books have been written on how to prepare for and achieve military fitness goals, but little is written about the hidden intrinsic benefits that are developed during the training process.
One of the most important parts of your developing success is a healthy outlook that stems from a hard work ethic and self-confidence. To build a positive outlook on everything around you, several things need to work in your favor.
Here is a list of some of the many positive characteristics that can be developed throughout the evolution of training and goal preparation:
The trip – The path to reaching your goal is going to be difficult. When you sacrifice a significant portion of your time and energy to achieve a goal, you need to let go of bad habits and develop new and good habits that will make you better. It is not easy because outside forces can distract you from your path to success. However, if you can successfully manage your time, give yourself enough time to prepare properly, you can build the physical and mental foundation you need to achieve any goal.
Overcome Limits – The journey to your personal success and achievement will require you to overcome many personal limitations, learn new skills, and overcome obstacles with a fury of focus and energy. Specifically, you may need to learn to swim, become more comfortable in the water, become a better runner, get stronger and faster. You may need a humble piece of pie and you will usually receive it during the process of being accepted into tough Special Ops selection programs because there is always someone better than you at something. – maybe everything. However, don’t lose confidence and hope, work harder. Now you see your weaknesses exposed compared to other successful students in front of you and you need to get back to work.
Build the attitude of never giving up – All adversity builds character and helps you achieve the Never Quit attitude you need, especially if you can turn your weaknesses into strength – or almost into strength. Your weakness must exceed the norm. The further away you are from borderline failure and minimum standard, the better. When you train to compete to exceed the norm, you never think about giving up, and you can overtake the survival mode most people find themselves in during special ops training. Train to compete – not just to survive.
See the results / Teamwork – There will be a point in your journey where you will compete with the best and meet the standards to move on to the selection. You now see the results of your work and your instructors will begin to rank you accordingly in your performance within the class. This is a time when you need to remember your run – remember when you struggled with training items. Help your comrades. Be a team player. Being a good teammate and classmate to others in your class will help you all work together as a team for selection success. Some top performing players may take their self-confidence to the point of arrogance and forget about their teammates. Don’t be that type because you won’t last long once you start training.
Change point of view – A healthy outlook comes from the confidence in your abilities gained by preparing for your goal. It is sort of the “attitude adjustment” that many go through in the course of a long process of growth. With healthy confidence in your abilities comes many humble events that you have had to overcome along your journey. Plateaus, obstacles, injuries, administrative issues, and years of training will quickly humiliate you, so self-confidence won’t cross the line of arrogance.
My perspective realization – After several years of preparation for my personal special operations journey, I had an awareness from the first days of training. First, my training has paid off and I meet and exceed the standards set by Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL training instructors. It was a boost of confidence because I wasn’t dying at the end of the day, I was enjoying the challenge of each day. It wasn’t easy, but it was what I expected. Second, once the day was over (many days end with dinner at 5-6 p.m.), I realized I didn’t have to train after a day of work and school. Before BUD / S, my day started with an early morning training session, a full day of college lessons, rugby training, a second training session, then a study night for tests until. ‘at midnight most of the time. My day at BUD / S was now over and it was still daylight. I had a few things to do in preparation for the day after the events with the preparation of the equipment, but mainly it was just stretching and taking care of the aches, pains or injuries and sleep. All I had to do was be a student. My journey to become a BUD / S student has been a challenge, which has given me the perspective that “life is good” as a student. Once again, nothing has been easy at BUD / S. I’m not saying that. But having a difficult journey to get TO TRAINING made all the difference in going THROUGH TRAINING.
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About Stew Smith CSCS
Stew Smith is a Navy SEAL veteran who supports the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Tactical Strength and Conditioning Program and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS). He also has over 1000 articles on Military.com Fitness Forum and on a 100 podcasts focusing on a variety of fitness, nutritional and tactical issues that service members face throughout their careers.
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