Mental Toughness: Think Like a Navy SEAL / Spartan Warrior
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Developing your mental toughness or hardiness can lead to huge changes in your training, productivity, and progress toward your goals. Success largely comes down to being able to motivate yourself to do what needs to be done, even when you don't feel like it.
Unfortunately, modern life is so comfortable, many of us have failed to develop any kind of mental toughness. This video provides some actionable tips you can use to change that, by using "discomfort training," as well as some meta cognitive strategies. This includes some of the techniques reportedly used by Navy SEALs to cope with Hell Week, as well as some training methods employed by Spartan Warriors.
Think like a warrior by developing mental toughness!
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Hey gang! Just wanted to give you a heads up that there is an error at the start of this video - Hell Week is actually five days and five nights (and a bit) and is part of Basic Conditioning! My apologies!
It would be very interesting and helpful if you could make a video about pain resistance training, e.g. for martial artists, military!
Love your channel! Keep up the awesome work!!💭📚
When will you be able to get the an physical version of the book by any chance ? Very nice video by the way and keep up the good work man.
Can you send me a link to the e-book? The one on the site didn't appear to work?
Would be interesting to see what your British sas go through
Glad you caught this. And it's not at the end. It's at the end of the 1st (of 3) Phases. Great content! Glad I found your channel!
I needed this. My mom coddled me all my life and my dad, well he wasn't around. Leaving me completely unprepared. And my mom still actively doesn't want me to do things that are uncomfortable. Now at 29, I feel like a weak old lady, and it sucks.
Improve bro you can fucking do it!!!!
Listen to david goggins he is the boss!
Same happened to me which is why i joined the army at 20 then moved out... Started working out everyday even joined a muaythai gym to get my ass beat and get used to being uncomfortable. Its never too late dude.
You got this hommie, stay hard!
Have you done something since you posted the commend :D ?
the best part is, you can always start now
I think the best way to start mental toughness, at least from absolute zero, is to take a manual labor job when you are younger. I work here in the united states in the fields, or agricultural labor. Here you are expected to learn heavy/repetitive work in about 3 days for minimum wage. If you can't, you're fired.
True. I also do a lots of psychical farm works. I don't think I would do shit if I started from zero though. I was also training calisthenics and that what help me to get through the works.
I work six days a week for an Amazon Sort Center in the non-conveyable department, which is all the packages that are either 50+ pounds or oddly shaped, usually both. It’s amazing cardio and a great way to build functional strength and I look forward to going in to work every night. I feel like I get a better workout there than I do the gym most days.
@@jamesbrincefield9879 This answer sounds like a bot. I am sorry trying to make sure it is real but you are the first positive amazon worker i hear about their working environment. Hence my curiosity.
@@SkreltNL lol same
@@SkreltNL Your suspicion is warranted... but let's give the him the benefit of the doubt. Either way I think the attitude is a great example of reframing and though it does absolutely nothing to change any systemic mistreatment of employees, it is still a useful tool for growth to the individual. To be clear: in no way am I saying that poor treatment of employees should be excused or condoned by claiming it builds character.
My method of mental fortitude is imaging the toughest man I’ve ever known, Drill Sergeant Davis, a combat vet and a sniper, right there along side me cheering me on and asking me if I’m going to make it. To which I always reply in my mind: “Yes Drill Sergeant!”
hell week isn’t 4 days at the end of the training. hell week is nearly 6 days long with 4 hours sleep total for the week (not each night). Also, hell week is 3 weeks into the 6 month long training at buds.
Thanks for the fact check man, really annoyed I made that mistake right at the start! Hopefully the point still comes across
The Bioneer you should do a video on the British SAS. They are one of the best in the world.
Michael Anthony Mansoor RIP
Tom Clancy put it best...."olympic athletes who send people to the next life"
@@truthmane3580 I wouldnt call them olympic athlets.
Athlets are train for a specific goal
Warriors are trained to survive and to succed the uknown. Especially special forces
Thats why the Operator wont give a damn about your physical strenght. He will push you even more to test your willpower.
A strong feature of mental toughness is the “just do it factor”. Workout when your motivated, neutral, and completely unmotivated. If your constantly looking for the super motivated factor, sooner rather later that roller coaster is going to come down. If you’re not excited by a workout, consider the habit of brushing your teeth. You don’t need to be super hyped up to do it, nor do you skip it if your feeling down, sad, blue. You just brush your teeth. That’s how your mental toughness increases. Working out really sucks, sometimes so, “embrace the suck” and workout anyway even if it is of a lower intensity, or seems far short of your goals. Just Do It✌️
That basically what I do last day, my mind are very unmotivated and my body are tired as hell but I still working out anyway, and just likes I thought, I performed my workouts worse than before and had to lower the intensity but at least i put in the work.
“The ones that had gone through the toughest education will survive" Ancient Spartan Proverb
Could you give me asource for that?
@@alltheframes9015 there isn’t specific source. It is just a saying passing down over the centuries.If you want to know more about spartan agoge though,you can check Plutarch’s “Life of Lycurgus” and “On Moral Virtue”
@@franksgreen Thanks! I really appreciate it
This calls for honest self-evaluation. Knowing what your limits are and testing them out is what this is all about.
What limits?
A man has to know his limitations.
We don't have limits.
Birth of the Dragon quote 😎
@@TheBioneer hahahahaha EXACTLY. I love it
You speak facts here. In my previous military career mental toughness and focus would always win the day over brute strength and dude bros. I always found it interesting that when we would begin a long grueling training mission you could never pick out the guys who would persevere, it was usually the ones that kept to themselves, had no bravado, and looked fairly 'normal' or unimpressive, for lack of a better word. The big loud guys always tanked out, made excuses, or gave up when shit got hard.
Sounds similar to civilian life.
That’s called ego. Mental toughness tends to humble a person
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I've been in for 12 years, and I disagree. Yes, there are a few quiet ones that are left at the end, but the majority are usually the Chad's that train.
"I am trying to preserve my tiredness" so true.
Yesterday a friend and I went to an outdoor archery range. It was already pretty cold but as we arrived it started raining. At first my friend turned to me and said "should we bail?" and I almost said "Yes" but then I thought about this video and was like "nope, we're doing this!"
Ever since the book Cant Hurt Me by David Goggins came out, I've noticed more people talking about mental toughness.
Matias yeah. Hes growing. Im glad to see others learning about him.
@@grantwalter2243 me too. Taught me a lot.
Mental toughness is so important. We as a society have become absolute pussies. We don't have enough real problems that force us to become physically and mentally stronger.
This is why it is critical for us as individuals to seek challenges out.
Yeah "talking" about it,
@@truthmane3580 Mental Toughness, because the more we talk about it, the tougher our mind becomes!
personally i think that as long as you are not feeling dizzy nauseous or feel your heart beating to fast or even feeling too thirsty your still good to go.
The eating the whole elephant thing is so true. During some workouts, training and tryouts I been through I broke every thing into parts and when I'm smoked i worry about doing one step or rep at a time.
It works especially as you get older
Hell week is 5 1/2 days, it is not the end. It’s only your ticket to the beginning
Thanks man!
I think maybe self-discipline is a quality a person must have in order to recognize and appreciate in others. A lot of folks who don't have it don't understand it, don't see the use for it, and sometimes they might see it as something pathological.
This video embodies pretty much everything I love about your channel. I think most other UA-camrs would just yell out random slogans about enduring mentally, but you actually explain the science and how to apply it.
I recently started swimming and it's improved my mental toughness a lot, it's improved almost all my life in fact. Having not swam for over a decade I was terrified I would be terrible or even drown. The last time I had been in a pool a stranger grabbed me and pushed me to the wall before belittling my mother for how bad my swimming was. She explained that I'm disabled and this made him even angrier. So as you can imagine, I had a lot of anxieties about returning to the water. But going towards fear and embracing it really does help. Swimming even on the bad days, the days when my disabilities try to tether me to the sofa, the days when I don't want to, has taught me how much I'm really capable of.
All of this to say your videos are great and have really helped me. I think you're the smartest and most thoughtful UA-camr covering fitness to date, and I wish you all the more success in the future.
I look forward to the days I do not feel like training, it gives me a chance to push and grow when I least want to.
Brilliant video. To add to your last point about “do something uncomfortable”, Jim Wendler says he forces himself to do something uncomfortable once a day, and pushes his students to make a list of things to dos. “It can be a list of 4, and they don’t have to be hard. You can have ‘shower before 7am’ or whatever, just write down 4 things and do them, and work up to more difficult stuff”. I’ve incorporated this with simple stuff life “study 30 minutes a day”, “stretch calves”, and “do hand exercises” and can say it’s helping me so far. I also try to do something that makes me uncomfortable at least once a day, and that for right now I’d walk my dog for a mile (times are tough, but are getting better). Even though I may not walk a full mile, I’m still getting some steps in and so is my dog, and I’m slowly building the distance up.
I'll hire strippers to dance around me while I code. Thanks Adam
I've heard they do this for real in Japan during coding competitions.
Mr Charles where do I sign up and much does it pay?
@@johnmason8372 are u a hot girl? John?
Lol not what I expected people to take away from the vid but if it works 😂
@@danpenia219 NO! Toughen up!
Due to life circumstances I've had to endure unyielding physical labor at breakneck pace on no sleep a couple of times, the two tools that helped me the most are the Wim Hof method and yoga nidra Wim Hof to get me through the work yoga nidra to maximize my efficacy of rest to be able to keep going. One time ( long story short) I was forced to move off of my property ( which I had lived on for 10 years) with only three days notice, as a result I only got 1 hours sleep in three days and had to Sprint while packing things and moving heavy furniture and boxes from the four corners of my half acre property, Wim Hof breathing massive amounts of matcha tea and ginseng and yoga nidra were what made it possible to endure.
Awesome story, thanks for sharing! I want to look j to yoga nidra more 😁
Yeah, I got my mental endurance from emotional problems, one mainly being that I was separated from my family, due to my mom because she got mad at the rest of them for some pity reason, womt explain it,and picked on physically by my sis, like really badly and. It made me go outside of my emotions like I van play around with them with ease. Really changed me from being high energy kid to hard, cynical type of person. But I still get a fire in me when I train or am with friends, it gives me a lot of joy. But hey now I'm a good xc runner, boxer, and train in many things. So eh, it's what you want
@@gokublack5620 yeah I know the pain of bullying, I had long hair as a kid and I changed schools almost yearly due to moving a lot, so I ended up getting in fights daily. It definitely changes you, but I feel like the people who make it through are more resilient than average people
@@dinninfreeman2014 yeah I would definitely agree with you. In boxing or running I'm able to go much farther than a lot of people. But yeah I totally agree with you
Nice
"Doing something really uncomfortable" dude getting up is worse than crawling naked on gravel
Your joking right😂
@@suttsu7696 done both and I genuinely think so. I mean maybe not just getting up, that's pretty easy, getting up when I should and not when I feel like "enough slacking in bed, time to play games/practice my hobbies/eat and go back to sleep" is incredibly tough. Add to that anything stressful that must be done and I feel genuine physical resistance :v
Okay cool, I see where your coming from now
@@suttsu7696 I forgot to add: it was meant to be funny too, saying something like "writing a thesis" would be boring
😅
I'm a cook in the restaurant industry. Is that enough mental training? Cold showers seem like a painfully good idea. Thanks for the research!
Dude having worked as a waiter so would say absolutely! Talk about high pressure!
@@TheBioneer im a cook and i exercise a lot and take cold showers. It fucking helps... realy
Thank you for the advice. This is something I will bring into 2022 & definitely put into action.
THAT is one of the best videos I have ever seen on YT. Only recently found this channel and I'm lapping up the detail.
7:34 That insight into your motivations and driving factors when you are in a tired state really resonated with me. Thank you for providing me with a springboard for my own introspection.
You one of the greatest persons ive ever seen!
Good video. On mental toughness, I’ve certainly found doing press-ups on a freezing morning in the shallows of a fast-flowing river as something that works.
Another great post, thanks. Started cold showers before work about a month ago, now progressing to outdoor cold showers...
This Guy is a Legend 💛
Great advice dude! Loving your content.
Try the one punch man challenge
1. 100 pushups,100 situps,100 squats,10 km run everyday.
2. Eat 3 meals a day
3. Do 1 and 2 for three years straight without any heating and air conditioning.
Replace the sit ups with some other core exercise and and add some pulling exercises.
@@a.wasner are you eating something high pack with the calories to sustain the body?
Love your methodology.....it’s very true and can be done.
No weak man shall prosper.
Man your channel is so lit dude seriously this is one of the best channel on UA-cam. I’m glad I subscribed to this man keep the filthy comming man 💪🏾
The hardest part is just to start. Once your in there, doing it, and especially afterwards working out feels great!!
this kind of thing is absolute GOLD! We could all benefit from a bit more mental toughness!
The best fitness Chanel
Really got very interesting towards the end, will definitely be trying to incorporate some of the things you talk about in my life
This channel is incredibly under rated. Your research is second to none
Awesome. This is something that I find myself asking about when I'm watching SAS: who dare wins & them mentioning it all the time. Hearing you put it in simple, easy to understand terms makes it (much) easier to approach and answers the 'whys/hows' that the program brings up. Shout out to another Ron White subscriber too!! I'm getting your book in the new year. Excellent video.
Just wanted to mention that you're one of the most (if not the most) genuine, body and mental building channels I've seen on UA-cam and I've been following many channels in this domain for almost a decade now. Thank you
i love how your channel incorporates a bit oh history, biology, chemistry, philosophy, and so much more.
Deserves a lot of subs, quality of these videos are just amazing you can see the intelligence and work put into the videos
Very good. It’s always good not to limit yourself by what the back of your mind doesn’t want to do.
That’s where mind over matter comes into play.
Excellent video
Thank you sir
This mindset translates to other facets in life.
Not just training but doing chores whenever you feel lazy.
Mindset of whether you like it or not, just get it done and put your best effort into it.
Haha you said David Goggins, I watch him alot. Hes the new standard
Yeah he's great!
you're great bro
Wow Good job Young man ...You just hit the nail on the head
You're my new favourite channel
Thank you! I really appreciate the things you share with us! One thing I have been doing lately is to volunteer for heavy hard work. For free! Just because I exult in the strength of my body and am always on the lookout for opportunities to increase it.
Awesome video! Good presentation on a true warrior perspective.
That scene where he's doing push-ups on the bell bars. Omg the strength and balance that is required. One slip up and the weights fall and you break your jaw on one of them.
found in my reccomended, i think really needed this
Philosophy with physiology. You know what you are talking about. Its beautiful to watch these videos.
I LOVE your cH!! Especially the two pt. Bruce Lee training videos I watched. Thank you!!😊
I love your work. This is all gold, and applicable to so much of "life", in general. I started working out regularly (after 10+ years) at 39, a bit over a year ago so needed a *lot* of advice re: safely (re)building functional strength safely, establishing a solid core-leg "base", etc. Super grateful to have found your channel a while back. Just a fan letter for the algorithm.
P.s. SUPER glad you explore Cognitive Expansion/Augmentation, as well as ways to expand Physical limitations. You're a genius, a goddamn madlad!
You are a true Motivator of MENTAL TOUGHNESS you are a true SOLDIER WARRIOR and a true MAN-AT-ARMS
The horse stance and centennial sets build crazy mental toughness.
Hey man you need to tell everybody that this is something they can post on their Snapchat. That's the only motivator for people that look on the internet.
I got so used to many of these principals during my martial arts training that now I have an opposite response to the norm. When I'm working out and feel comfortable I get annoyed and stop to figure out how to make it harder or find a harder workout for the same muscle group.
If it isn't uncomfortable it likely isn't doing anything for you!
wishing you a happy new year bro. my best wishes to continue your valuable effort and progress of your all endeavor.
Thanks bro I can use this for new year resolutions 🥳
Love your channel brother!!
Enjoying your material. No growth in comfort
You’re a legend
the ability to calm one self in a stressful situation is more important than what you can achieve in ideal conditions
Excellent information!
Thank you for sharing this information!!
This channel is so good it exceeds my imagination. When Hollywood gets its act back together they'll have to hire you as a consultant if not a leading man.
yes! its like THE meta skill!
This is awesome!
If you want to take a look at some other significant military units and the way they train I would highly recommend checking out the RASP selection program for the 75th Ranger Regiment. Of course if you are a citizen of the U.K. then you can't forget about the SAS and SBS. Great videos. Glad I found your channel.
You've inspired me more times than I can count, I'm so grateful for your channel ✌🏿💪🏿
Thanks, that's awesome 😁 And I'm grateful you watch!
Just a clarification - 'Hell week' does not end BUDS training. It's actually the end of the first phase of the approximately 6 months of training. Naturally, there is lots of follow on training after BUDS.
Just subscribed to your channel, looking forward to watching more of your videos .
This is gonna be my first year pushing through Wisconsin winter with my at home gym, instead of just quitting for a season. Mind you, my home gym is in a separate garage. With no insulation. Or heating. It's gonna get below zero fahrenheit, and I'm gonna have to work through that. Gonna be fun.
bro love your videos...
AWSOME VID!
commuting in the winter on my motorbike i think really helps my mental toughness. hands so cold all you can feel is pain, having to see through the rain and perform well as your life is on the line. its also something you have to continually improve at, you get complacent and that could be the day you hit a lorry.
when its nice its also an amazing pre and post work catharsis, other than when its brutally cold i enjoy my commute, even in the rain. most people dont, come to work really sluggish and demotivated. also great for so many other things, balance, on the fly risk/threat assessment, committing when youve made a decision, having to control your emotions/fear. all sorts.
Follow you from Egypt
This video is the need of the hour
Today all the people are soo comfortable because of the technology
So become uncomfortable daily by doing tough stuffs and you will become tough both physically and mentally
Ive been watching your videos for well over a year now. I very much enjoyed seeing your progression along with these very interesting topics for each video. Your channel's positivity has helped me push through some very dark moments. Thank you so much for sharing your training and philosophy with us.
I’m so glad you’ve found value in the content and I’m very happy to have helped! Hope you’re feeling better now, keep fighting the good fight! ✊🏻✊🏻
You're really helping me, travel fully packed on my journey. Huge, THANK YOU AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I'm really glad to hear that 😁 And happy New Year to you! Have an awesome 2020!
Hey Adam. I just read Cant Hurt Me by David Goggins and realized. He is the closest thing mentally that we have to Batman. His extreme approach to being uncommon amongst uncommon men is insane, but it so closely resembles Bruce's mind. (well. david used guns so... thats that. But other than that? Pretty darn close)
👏🏽
He’s the black hood
Survival. A life of do or die teaches these things.
A bit here reminded me of some yogi who everyone followed and when he went to NYC they wanted to see how he handled the stress and the people. Where he was from he was peaceful, gentle, solid and seemed to have it "all together". The story goes he didn't last two days before he went off and cussed someone out and left. So, Yes, train and discipline under the most stressful and uncomfortable situation you can find.
I leaved a like because I want to see your channel grow even before I watched the video 😂
I'm such a self-conscious person that I myself put myself through hell everyday with constant worries and insecurities. I know it's not any people's fault but still I'm self conscious. Many times I thought about going to see a doctor, but I don't want to talk to parents about that. So I decided to solve all of this by myself. More than 1 year passed and now I'm a lot better, all because of the gym and just kinda throwing myself into the environment that gives me a lot of insecurities, a lot of self-conscious thoughts, a lot of worries, and trying to be myself (like just do what i want to do, plan to do or like to do) despite all those thoughts. A lot of UA-cam videos like this one taught me that. That sometimes we just have to turn on beast mode and just take everything we need, do everything we need to do despite everything else, no yielding, no compromise, despite how people think, how much of a jackass, asshole or how weird we seem to them. In real life, and in the gym, no matter what, we shouldn't let anyone or anything take away our gains, and our gains should be the only thing that we focus on. Your life is yours, and just fuckin do what you want with it! Help or please others if you feel like it, and if not, why the fuck do you need to help them, or please them ? In the end, no matter what we do, whether for other's sake or for our sake, ultimately they are all for our own peace of mind and our satisfaction. Many people help others but they never demand anything back, because they know that they do these good deeds for themselves. Anyway, the GYM and REAL LIFE really changed my life, I just want to go out more, and workout more, to never stop progressing.
You're my favorite youtuber!!! Greetings from San Diego, California
Awesome!! Thank you and greetings from Oxfordshire!
How too train like a WARRIOR from ancient Kush. Now that would be an excellent video.
Awesome vid 👍
I know I'm late, but this has really helped me out. I hope you know you're changing lives.
Upward and onward, brother.
And yeah, Adam is an amazing channel and I probably wouldn't have never found him if it wasn't for James of Shredded Sports Science.
Im 50 now, but during my 40s, ive built strength in a crowded commercial gym, after work. Often id be yawning between sets. Its just my reality. Im glad i did that. I am mentally much tougher than i was in my young years. Which is an achievement, as im on the autism spectrum. Life has thrown some stuff my way. Im doing ok. Im learning a new role at work. I need to be resilient and cope. I am.
Great work bud- 4x4x4 is extremely useful.
The Bioneer is really wicked, they are SAS but train us like a Navy SEAL!
my bruh the bioneer is truly bionic
Hi Adam. Those of us born with ADHD have a unique set of mental challenges that are different from those with "normal" brains. If you have any insight on this matter, I hope to hear your take on ways to handle our unique challenges as well?
(Might post this comment under multiple videos in order to better catch your attention! :P)
A couple examples off the top of my head: The part of our brains responsible for executive function is underdeveloped, meaning that despite putting tons of mental effort into something, we might not be able to even start doing it (easier with medication, but still a struggle). Another example that relates to your "Meditation" video, the part of our brains responsible for daydreaming NEVER SHUTS OFF, so in a sense we are ALWAYS non-directively meditating, to the detriment of everything else (this is one of the causes for our problems with attention & focus). There are many more examples but I'll stop for now.
Flow state is where challenge meets ability. So you are neither bored (too much ability/too little challenge) nor overwhelmed (too little ability/too much challenge).
I have got a heavy bag, it hangs at a tree in the garden. Everyday I’m at home I go there and do 1 hour of Muay Thai boxing. No. Matter. What. Every. Day. I think that particular workout Routine changed my whole life. In times like this where it’s freezing cold, it rains and gets muddy, I can’t describe it but I enter a different zone. It’s amazing. It’s truly amazing what happens in your mind when you start liking to put your body under extreme conditions.
Ah yes, CBT.
What a wonderful thing that helps our mental fortitude.
Like your content. Encouraging stuff. Subbed.