Building the Elite Podcast
Mar 18, 2022
Exploit vs. Explore - Ep. 1
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In this episode we talk about the most common framework we use to categorize training phases and how to apply this concept.
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How to Succeed in 18D and SOCM
*18-Delta, the Special Forces medic qualification course, and SOCM, the Special Operations Combat Medic course, are among the most difficult schools in the US Special Operations pipeline. *
*The people who attend these courses are special operators who have already been through their selection programs, and in some cases have already gone through several work-ups and deployments with their units. They’re smart, motivated, and highly-capable people. And yet, only about half of them will make it through a given course. It’s just that hard.
On this call, we talk with two different graduates of this course. A former Green Beret and 18D medic named Jack, and a former Navy SWCC and SOCM medic named Chase.*
*We discuss what this school is like, what to expect if you’re a student on your way there, and some of the best practices for successfully completing the course.
Some of the resources we discussed on this call:
**Complete Anatomy Study App**
**Mental Skill: Segmenting**
**Mental Skill: Compartmentalization **
**Khan Academy** free online courses, such as this one on **calculating units and dosages**.
**Supermemo** and **Anki** spaced repetition flashcard programs*
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Aug 2, 2022
Hurt Fast or Hurt Slow - Ep. 25
*Special operations selection teaches you to rethink your relationship with pain. The discomfort of doing something with a painful but partial effort isn't meaningfully different from the pain of giving it everything you have. One is just slower, and when it's over you wouldn't really remember the difference.
For the world of SOF selection to become your home, and to eventually succeed in it, you have to think of pain not as something to be avoided as often as possible, but as a component of a strategy. There is **productive pain **that helps you get something done, and there is **useless pain**.
You can hurt fast, or you can hurt slow. When it's over it's all just a blur of suffering and the subtle distinctions won't have mattered. What will matter is what you **accomplished** with that pain.*
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Jul 26, 2022
Eustress Training - Ep. 24
*Eustress training is a way of training your body to do more work, **easily **by raising the baseline of movement or exercise that you can do without stressing your body out or making a significant demand on your recovery capacity.*
*This means that you can eventually train harder, recover faster, and when you want to really push things in the gym or in your sport, you have a higher output potential. Since you’ve trained to make heavy workouts feel easy, you’ll be able to do even more before it feels really difficult.*
*Eustress training also has several other benefits. For instance, *
* *It helps to build a high degree of control into your perception of sustained effort, teaching you how to make hard things easy. *
* *It allows you to refine and dial in techniques and mental strategies.*
* *It reduces recovery time - allowing you to shift emphasis to other physiological demands and training inputs*
* *It increases specific work capacity in the movements trained. *
* *It helps to develop a better sense of interoception, or the ability to sense what is happening within your body and predict how future events will feel*
* *It also helps to develop a general skill of self-regulation, or the ability to manage your stress response under difficult conditions. *
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