Workouts for Special Forces Selection - Jocko Willink

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Excerpt from JOCKOPODCAST 12

[TeamTrumpUSA]

"Accept the challenge so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."(George S. Patton) Words to live by.

[jordanfrancisco]

I just love it when Echo makes a movie reference and Jocko doesn't give a crap about it. Gold.

[GreyFlash]

Tactical fitness= all around fitness-strength, speed, power, endurance. Don’t need to be the best at each but need to be good at each.

[joelvaldez]

Forrest Griffin wrote a book, "Got Fight, " that I highly recommend. In it, he says, "Train for the job you want." He talks about guys that lifted a bunch of weights and couldn't fight, cause they didn't train fighting. They trained weights.

[anthonyrodriguez]

Rucking was something I did to train multiple days a week before USMC Boot Camp. It made life much easier after the first 4 weeks as the phycological difficulty was greatly diminished because I knew what to expect.

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde

[QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

[robertd]

He had a guy at work who was 300lbs and we used to call him Rice Cakes. Every 6 months we do a PT Assessment and one thing we have to do is a 1 mile walk. My best was a 9 minute walk. That big dude was like a 9:15. I asked him how can he do that. He said "well when you're fat like me your legs get strong as f*** or you die." Lmao. Great guy.

[daviddaly]

The best most accurate advice I have heard on social media. SF is about carrying loads of weight that you can't eat or drink for miles in hostile country, over bad terrain, in almost absolute silence. It's not a glamorous job at all. But it gives one a great sense of achievement when what you set out to do is successful. Because you know that very few people in the world would be able to put up with that shit and still succeed. It's a very personal experience.

[yeokk]

If I don't see Echo when he talks there's no way I believe he has arms like those.

[Jojo_DeBo]

My partner is a SF 22 veteran, warrior soul and durable.Health wise not too good but every day gives life 100% and I love him dearly.

[hollywoodhendo]

Literally have the thirty days out checklist next to me and my ruck set up for the morning and I got this notification perfect timing

[Josh-ubdo]

I love Jocko's method for getting good at stuff. Works for everything.

[JOReview]

Had to share this video with several of my clients who are going for selections soon. They had to hear it from me and from Jocko in the way only he tends to inform and explain things. Kudos.

[StrengthResurgence]

Just a totally random piece of information in case anyone is in the mood to learn a random fact: There is a condition that soldiers in the past have gotten when wearing absolutely excessive heavy rucksacks for excessively long periods of time. It’s often called “rucksack palsy” which refers to a traction an injury of the brachial plexus within the shoulder/neck, due to the heavy pack pulling the shoulders down, stretching the nerves running from the neck down into the shoulders. It often affects the long thoracic nerve, which is a nerve that runs from the fifth to seventh cervical nerve roots of the neck down into the serratus anterior muscle. Just in case anyone wanted to learn something random. Love your channel, Jocko!!

[darrellshoup]

Jocko - “I was a radio man.” Me too, brother. Forced ruck marches aren’t appreciated until you’ve enjoyed it with a PRC-77 added to the ruck.

[TheDers]

The fact that Jocko has a relevant reference to Tremors on his podcast just shows that this is one of the best podcasts on Earth.

[itsTarooox]

Echo is like the child that’s an absolute unit, and Jocko is his dad 😂 Jocko can make dad jokes and Echo will laugh at all of em

[pauliemc]

Rucking or tabbing or yomping as it’s referred to by SAS/SBS is the fundamental level of fitness in UK special forces. The first phase of UKSF selection is exactly this, insanely large loads carried out extremely difficult terrain for an absurdly long period of time and distance.

[DeadGlassEyes]

Just came back from my mandatory military service. It's amazing how some people can march, others can't. I was happy to see that I had the endurance to be able to do it, most people were falling apart. I was also lucky with my feet I guess as I had no problems, even with those hard as fuck military boots. I really enjoyed doing it, I got used to it, even though it was 38 degrees outside.