Navy Seal Physical Fitness Guide

Navy Seal Physical Fitness Guide

Written by galore of the most welleducated fitness specialists, medical doctors and physiologists around, this guide covers anything and everything there is when it comes to physical training and achieving super results. The Navy SEAL Physical Fitness Guide features over 300 tables and figures.

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Very Good Overview
By A
First off this book is not a “how to” manual with cautiously laid out programs. It does have a great deal of suggestions on how to build up running distance but don’t suppose much more. What you may look forward to is a great basic reference for exercises and affiliated inuries and their treatment. Very basic. If you read it conservatively you’ll find valuable info and it will point you in the right direction in terms of specialized training (basics of plyometrics, weight training, importance of stretching etc), but you’ll need to get galore other books on these subjects to fill in the gaps. This is not something for a finish beginner.

If you are new to working out consider Stew Smiths’Maximum Fitness or The Complete Guide to Navy SEAL Fitness, you will not be disappointed, both magnificent books. From beginner to innovative you can’t go wrong, you will have to adjust the plans in the books to your own level though. In response to those who may say the workouts are too difficult or take too much time; what did you suppose from guys who operate at the level of elite athletes and are paid to keep themselves in top condition? Like I said, adjust to your own level and strive to improve!

Actually I purchased The Navy Seal Workout by Mark DeLisle way before I ever came throughout these other books and consider it OK but not great. It’s a thin book padded with pictures but DeLisles’ pyramiding system for chin ups is magnificent and it has good upper body workout plans but no lower body(leg)workouts.

After working out for some years I considered myself in good shape in terms of strength and endurance, these books proved how faulty I was.

9 of 10 humans found the following review helpful.
The textbook required for training trainers.
By Christopher Wanko
Using Stew Smith’s splendid examples in his Navy SEAL Fitness Guide (ISBN 1578260981) as illustrative examples, this book will support new instructors in instructing comprehensive, total body fitness performance.

While it doesn’t serve as a traditionalisti textbook with 500+ pages and an broad bibliographic stew, it does have in a unique manner qualified and credentialed writers contributing key chapters throughout, making this a terrific reference guide and course builder for any new instructor or instructor looking for new direction.

I have two criticisms, minor and not sufficient to reduce the star ratings.

One, there will have to be at least two more pages of material in the estimation of VO2(max) for trainees. What is written may be figured out, but it may be re-written for clarity, and given two more pages, it may be broken down a little more to see the numbers transform.

Two, the typesetting is terrific for handouts, but the layout breaks throughout page boundaries in weird places. This is, after all, printed matter bound for publication and distribution to the public as a book. It ought to be laid out like a training manual with better formatting and page breaks, and given a keyword index at the back of the book.

In all, this is a very helpful guide for PE instructors of all kinds. While it is basis is mainly for training SEAL teams, there is wide appeal to any athlete looking for a disciplined, scientific approach to realizing one’s full potential.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Intro to exercise physiology + Customization tool
By A
This book provides a practical, user-friendly introduction to exercise physiology. The author provides tables and formulas to support the reader calculate how much, how far, and how often to work out. Also included are basic exercise physiology principles to aid readers comprehend the how and the why.

There’s a lot of utile ordinary information, altho the book also holds specialized stuff not applicable to civilians (like training for extreme combat conditions, or how to custommake training for dissimilar mission profiles.)

If this had been my introductory and only SEAL fitness book, I would’ve been disappointed and bored. But after observing SEAL fitness videos, reading the other books, and attempting the PT exercises, merely doing was no longer sufficient and I wanted to grasp more.

In particular, I wanted to go beyond the general “beginning – intermediate – advanced” classifications. I wanted to find out how to in truth custommake the exercise routines for my own needs. I likewise wanted to discover how to set individualized goals. Deuster’s book provides the answers and the quantitative tools to boot. Combine this book with Deuster’s other book on nutrution, and you have a finish customization tool.

My only gripe — Deuster’s suggested PT routines seem too tame. In the interest of preventing injuries, she builds in so much stretching that the exercise tempo gets slowed way down. Other than that, I found this a very utile book.

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