Sas And Special Forces Fitness Training

Written by an expert author, Fitness Training offers a total fitness programme for both body and mind. Special exercises and routines will help the reader improve strength, stamina and agility. There are also chapters on diet and nutrition, mental agility and self-defence to help cope with the challenges of modern life the SAS way.

Outlines workouts and exercises drawn from programs used by United States military special operations teams and aimed at promoting total body fitness.

Just like professional athletes, elite soldiers receive special training to acquire amazing speed, agility, strength, balance, endurance, flexibility, reactions, and physical and mental resilience. Special Forces Fitness Training provides civilians with a program for achieving these same top physical capabilities. Developed by a strength and conditioning coach for the United States Armed Forces, this program was designed for real-world application. No part of the program requires gym equipment: readers can do the 120 tough exercises and 20 exciting workouts in any location, at any time. Like soldiers staying fit on deployment at barren outposts, exercise enthusiasts can use the program to get ripped in their home. This intense training manual equips beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level athletes with the "orders" they need to improve their head-to-toe fitness and hone an intimidating physique. With detailed photos for each exercise, this guide is all a civilian requires to achieve top military-level conditioning.

Twice a year, 150 anxious recruits gather at SAS headquarters in the UK, their minds focused on one objective: to become soldiers in one of the world’s most elite regiments after nearly four months of the toughest military selection process in the world. This is an illustrated guide to the process of becoming one of the world’s best soldiers.

Mental Toughness Training examines what it takes to be as mentally fit as a special forces soldier. The book explains why it is equally important to focus on stress management and mental discipline as it is to concentrate on physical exercises, and is an essential guide to testing and improving mental agility and resilience.

Who’s going to help you prepare for your next fitness challenge? Extreme Fitness explores different training methods to build strength, speed, agility and endurance, across running, swimming, weight and circuit training and triathlon events. It looks at how special forces maintain peak fitness through diet, rest, and mental fitness.

The fitness plan used by the SAS - perfect for fans of British Miltary Fitness classes. Every year thousands of men and women discover new levels of fitness and inner strength as they are put through their paces to meet demanding standards required for new recruits in the British Army - this book will take you to the same level. Beyond that are the elite: the SAS, Paras and Commandos. Each unit has rigorous and searching requirements designed to select only the strongest, fittest and meanest for the world's toughest regiments. Recommended by a recent SAS squadron commander as 'an excellent guide', FIGHTING FIT's unique and proven training programmes have already helped many soldiers pass these most demanding tests. Now you can join them. Illustrated throughout and including inside information on the kit you'll need, the food you should eat and how to cope with injury, FIGHTING FIT is the comprehensive insider's guide to the fitness methods of the world's most professional army.