About Me and My Training

I began my training the summer leading into my 8th grade year. I was probably around 5'5 and weighed 100lbs going into that summer (yeah I was small). The only real training I had done prior to that was with sport teams (baseball, football, soccer). So being a new untrained motivated person I started weight lifting on a baseball specific program I had made. It was designed to build muscle mass and help me get bigger. The though of being a Navy SEAL had not even crossed my mind yet, though I had heard of them. My training program consisted of no swimming, very little running, and tons of weight lifting. I was doing leg curls/extensions, bicep curls, squats, lunges, pull downs and more very day; which is not good for you. Those are all good, but when you do the same thing to much it doesn't help you as much. I did this style of program for about two years all the way through my 9th grade summer. However, I do not think that all this training time was wasted or worthless, it taught me some good lessons. 1) being "big" is worthless, when you can't run or swim long distances in good times. 2) variation is one of the most important parts of your training. (I will go into more detail about variation in a later post). 3) you should not over train yourself, because you could be damaging your body. Be smart in your training.
Around the middle of this year (9th grade year) I found out about some programs called Crossfit and SEALFIT. These programs completely changed the way I thought and the way I trained. Shortly after starting SEALFIT, I bought a book called 8 weeks to SEALFIT by Mark Divine. It talks about mental toughness, physical preparation, leadership, teamwork and much more. After reading that book I had such a different feeling torwards my workouts. I had never swam for excercise up until this point. Just around this time I started to think about what I wanted to do when I got older. I knew I didn't want to sit at a desk all day, I wanted to be challenged physically. That's when the SEAL teams came into my mind. It gradually grew more on me, and I found myself constantly thinking about it. After a couple months of thinking about it, I was hooked, I wanted to be a Navy SEAL.
I started looking up information on SEAL training, and on how to get there. So for the last 8-9 months I have been finding videos and information on SEALs, mental preperation, physical preperation, and leadership. I workout 4-5 days per week and try to run 16-20 miles per week, which I am hoping to increase to 24-30MPW. I try to swim 3-4 days per week at different distances and different types of strokes.
I am now at the end of my freshman year of high school and am looking forward to training hard this coming summer.
I hope the mistakes I made help everyone to see what there training should look like if they have dedication and commitment to the same goal I have. If you have any questions please leave a comment below.
Train Hard, Train Safe
HOOYAH
Drew