Preventing overtraining at BUD/S.

[intrepid_10]

Since I know how much I hate reading long-winded posts I’ll try to keep this short…

1. Can overtraining be prevented at bud/s? Stories I’ve heard don’t seem to support this.

2. Boot camp should be a breeze at my final fitness goal. How can I retain the hard-won adaptations like buffering capacity and aerobic/anaerobic endurance throughout basic?

3. Will I have an opportunity to train on my own (or with other potential seals) at A-school? And what is a-school pt like?

4. Is there any way to coincide periodization training with basic, a-school and bud/s? Should I try to peak several weeks into bud/s or just before or just…. not worry about it?

5. Should I just focus on building a training base, ie do long easy runs for general/injury prevention adaptations, or concentrate more on threshold, repetition etc training before basic (same thing for a-school)

6. Are orthodics allowed at bud/s? I’m slightly flatfooted and nearly ruptured the tendons in my feet running barefoot on sand.

Sorry if any of this is a repetitious, I'm new here

Thanks

[sandfrog]

1. The point is to overtrain you. However, the more your body's used to it, the less chance you'll have of developing overuse injuries.

2. Sneak PT's in your off time and try to do the morning SEAL PT's with the SEAL/Dive motivators, I'm pretty sure they still do them.

3. Depends what your A school's like. Most major training commands have a SEAL/Dive motivator to help you PT and prep before you go to BUD/S, and you should have plenty of time to train on your own as well.

4. Don't worry about it, just get yourself into the best shape possible. The schedule at boot and A school will throw off your training program anyway.

5. Some of each. No matter what you're doing, push yourself ALL the time. Check out the Warning Order for some recommended distances and running programs.

6. I don't know, but I can find out for you on Monday.

Welcome, and thanks for typing in complete sentences.