How To Prepare For BUD/S Navy SEAL Training | Part 2 Running

0:00 what's up YouTube my name is Chad Wright this video series is meant to be a resource for you guys who are going to go to buds otherwise known as SEAL training we're going to cover down on how I prepared for buds back when I went through with class 278 I was able to make it all the way through training with no issues never got rolled or any anything any issues so this is going to cover down on everything from how to prepare mentally how to prepare uh running and endurance wise how to prepare for the water and also the calisthenics portion of your training to get ready to go and do this thing so hope you guys enjoy it if you did subscribe to the channel leave a comment we appreciate it love you enough said all right guys so we hit the mental

0:46 preparation part laying the groundwork to get ready to actually start training to go to buds hands down without a doubt no questions asked the most important part of your physical training in order to be ready to make it through buds is running without a doubt um most guys that get injured most guys that get rolled in Seal training I would say the vast majority is from stress fractures all right their legs are not prepared for the amount of running that SEAL training demands most days at a minimum in Seal training you're going to be running six miles and

1:32 that's just back and forth to eat ciao all right three meals a day a mile to the chow hall a mile back that's the very very minimum a lot of days you're going to have uh you're going to be way further than a mile from the chow hall uh so you're gonna have a lot more distance to run just to eat sometimes that distance is going to be 10 plus miles and then some days you're also going to have conditioning runs or you're going to have four mile time runs on top of that so it beats the legs up you've got to be prepared and how do you strengthen your legs how do you get better at running by running all right that's how you do it your legs have to adapt to the

2:17 pounding that running puts on the bones of your legs it takes time for that to happen now when I was starting off and I was getting ready to go to Seal training I had zero base I had zero experience in in endurance running my furthest run I don't know may have been a mile or something ridiculous I had zero base so when I first started I had some of the most painful shin splints that I I don't know how they could get any more painful I would stand up out of the bed in the morning and basically fall over in the floor as soon as my feet touched the ground because my legs hurt so bad if I wouldn't have went through that prior to Seal training there's no way I would have made it

3:04 through there's no way I would have passed my Four Mile time runs or my conditioning runs I would have wound up in the Goon Squad which is where you don't want to wind up during a conditioning run because they basically beat you and Hammer you down until your body's destroyed and you pretty much just have to give up all right so specifically let's get into some specifics about running in preparation for Seal training look don't worry about running with a rucksack on you're never going to Dag on you're not going to do a lot of rucking until you get late into third phase in first phase and second phase you may have a rucksack on but it's going to have very minimal gear in it it's not going to be heavy don't worry about rucking don't don't worry about running

3:51 in Boots and long pants and any of that crap man you'll do plenty of that if you can run in tennis shoes you can run in Boots you're just going to be a little bit slower in the boots and long pants don't worry about training that just get you when I was training for for buds I had an old pair of dag on A6 tennis shoes man we didn't have these hokas and all this crap just gets you a pair of tennis shoes and just start running now don't go run on your dad go on sidewalk around your neighborhood or in your local park on your you know nice gravel trails and crap ninety percent of the running you're going to do at buds is going to be in soft sand you're already going to be tired you're already going to be fatigued so when you put your miles in in preparation for Seal training they

4:39 need to be the hardest freaking miles that you can find okay that's why we're out here right now on a power line cut this is what I trained on this is what I ran on my entire time getting ready to go to buds all of my runs were done on power line cuts there are a couple of reasons for that power line cuts are really steep they're straight line up mountains up terrain so you get the climbing in that puts extra strain and fatigue on your legs they're rutted out they're uneven a lot of times there's a lot of loose dirt and rock it's going to get you practice moving over that kind of loose terrain or uneven terrain when you're running across the beach in buds or you're running across berms and stuff

5:25 like that there's going to be holes there's going to be it's loose sand it's going to be freaking seaweed and all kinds of crap in your way so get used to running on rough terrain um speaking of that another good thing about running on power line cut is it's going to lessen your your chance for injury especially if you're just starting to to get into your your running block or your running training if you start running on concrete and pavement and crap like that it's going to make those shin splints and it's going to make those stress fractures um uh way bigger risk than if you're out here running on the dirt uh you've got all this daggone brush and Briars and and all these obstructions here this is

6:10 what you want you want to make it as hard as you can possibly make it uh you also get exposed to high frequency radiation out here which is going to help freaking prepare your mind so that you're actually dumb enough to make it through SEAL training all right so you want to kill as many brain cells as you can running out on these power line Cuts actually achieves that uh talking about mileage how many miles should you be getting in per week before you start or before you go to Navy boot camp I'd say a good standard is you should be able to easily and comfortably put in at least 50 miles a week before you show up to buds all right those are 50 miles in hard to rain not on your freaking sidewalk and you

6:57 shouldn't struggle to do that if you run a 50 mile week and at the end of the week you feel beat up and like like your legs hurt and your body hurts and you're not ready man all right because again when you get to Seal training that's going to be your absolute minimum your running load actually will increase as you go through buds if you make it all right the times for your Four Mile timed runs they get shorter and shorter all right so it gets harder and harder you have to get faster and faster uh your conditioning runs get longer again in third phase your rucksack gets heavier all that stuff progresses so you got to have a solid base of running I'm telling you man I cannot stress this

7:44 enough this is what you should put most of your time into doing in order to prepare for buds or steel training if you don't you're going to get injured and the other reason is because when you're doing timed runs or when you're doing conditioning runs there's a freaking Spotlight on you everyone there they can very easily see if you're in the back of the pack or you're sucking hind tit you never want to be in the back of the pack on a run you never want to be in the front of the pack on the Run even if you can be up there you want to be able to comfortably maintain a middle of the pack place on all your runs and you want to be able to do that comfortably so that you can get up the next day and do it again and

8:32 again and again for six months straight this is where you make your money this is where you lessen your chance of getting injured this is where uh you build the ability to get through training without winding up in the Goon Squad and getting highlighted and getting freaking hammered and getting beat down more than you should have to get beat down spend time running 50 miles a week hard to rain build up to that if you get shin splints and crap freaking you got it you gotta you may have to take a day off but as soon as your legs don't hurt quite as bad get out and run again just do it eventually your legs will adapt

9:18 so this is number one in the next video we're going to talk about the water stuff all right the water aspect of training and preparing getting you ready to go to buds