8 Weeks to SEALFIT: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Unconventional Training for Physical and Mental Toughness-Revised Edition

by Mark Divine

Overview

8 Weeks to SEALFIT plunges you into more than a workout program. Mark Divine’s stories and assignments will develop your mental, emotional, intuitive and spiritual warrior as well as your physical warrior.

What You Will Learn
• Develop the character traits of a Navy SEAL
• Forge an unbeatable mind
• Adopt a level-headed approach to nutrition
• Gain exceptional overall strength and stamina
• Improve work capacity and durability
• Get the best functional workout available with the least amount of equipment

A Sneak Peek into 8 Weeks to SEALFIT

It begins with your arrival as a Navy SEAL BUD/S cadet. There’s no time to dilly dally. You either do the first workout and commit to this training, or don’t bother. Next day, you move on to another challenge completely different than what you’d expect. It’s not the stuff for doubters, quitters, or complainers.
These 8 weeks will be hard. Mark will push your physical body to its limits and test your inner resolve. You’ll be tempted to give up. But if you embrace the suck of the challenge, you’ll begin to win. The stories and adventures Mark takes you on — escaping battlefield danger, calming yourself when there’s no way out, learning to trust your gut — will tap into more power than you knew you had.

You’ll begin to glimpse, and reach, your full potential. You’ll develop the character that makes a Navy SEAL: discipline, drive, determination, self-mastery, honor, integrity, courage, and leadership. You’ll thrive in a teamwork setting. You’ll learn to laugh and not take your circumstances so seriously. You’ll even know how to functionally train without equipment.

This is the ground-breaking training that increases SEALFIT athletes’ overall endurance, work capacity, and toughness. Be someone special. Let’s get started…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250040541
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

MARK DIVINE is a former Navy SEAL and has trained thousands of aspiring Navy SEALs. He owns and runs the SEALFIT Training Center in San Diego, California where he trains thousands of professional athletes, military professionals, SWAT, First Responders, SOF candidates and everyday people looking to build strength and character. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller 8 Weeks to SEALFIT.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword Joe Stumpf ix

SOF Candidates: Read This… xiii

1 Embrace the Suck 1

2 Forging a Warrior Mind-set 7

3 Staying in the Fight 14

4 Training Isn't "Working Out" 19

5 The Five Mountains 28

6 SEAL Fuel 37

7 On-Ramp Training 44

8 Advanced Operator Training 115

9 Needed: SEALFIT Leaders 193

10 The Next Step 201

11 You're Not Common 203

Appendix 1 Unbeatable Mind Power Resources 210

Appendix 2 Bask Training Program 216

Appendix 3 Shopping List 243

Appendix 4 Substitution, Scaling, and Standards 248

Appendix 5 Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations 253

Editorial Reviews

02/17/2014
Former Navy SEAL Commander Divine (The Way of the SEAL), owner of the SEALFIT Training Center in San Diego, Calif., presents a guide that covers physical and mental training, a modified Paleo diet, and SEAL philosophy, affirmations, and journaling intended to turn committed exercisers into athletes with a “warrior mind.” SEALFIT combines Ashtanga Yoga, Navy SEAL regimens, and CrossFit training with endurance sports and some forms of martial arts to create lifetime athletes who are disciplined in both mind and body. The first six chapters focus on SEALFIT philosophy, enhanced by Divine’s anecdotes and advice on how to “embrace the suck,” think like a warrior, and endure rigorous training. Chapter 7, “On-Ramp Training,” details a four-week regimen to bring participants up to speed. Chapter 8, “Advanced Operator Training,” offers the heart of program, with precise day-by-day workouts that make-up phases of Divinie’s eight-week conditioning plan: stamina, strength, power, de-load, and personal record. The appendices include additional resources for fortifying the mind, a modified basic training program for those who don’t have the time to commit to Advanced Operator Training, as well as extensive grocery lists. Divine’s brusque tone will appeal to readers looking to be pushed beyond their limits. 120 b&w photos. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Will appeal to readers looking to be pushed beyond their limits.” —Publishers Weekly

“The best program I've come to know outside of someone actually going through SEAL training.” —Brandon Webb, Navy SEAL, New York Times bestselling author

“I feel like I am twenty years old again.” —Bobby Yates, CEO

“I will not only ‘TRY' I will continue to work to accomplish every goal I have and also continue to imagine the feelings and actual accomplishment of that goal.” —Lindsey Valenzuela, Champion, 2nd Place in Women's Division, 2013 Crossfit Games and SEALFIT Kokoro graduate

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