Building the Elite blog
Resources on how to get ready for SOF selection and improve human performance. Building the Elite blog article topics include physical and mental components essential to success during Special Operations Forces selections and deployments.
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More Carry Weight: Find Your “Why”
By: Craig Weller I was in Nepal a long time ago, on a trail in the Himalayas. I had ...
Building Work Capacity for Special Operations Selection Prep
Don’t have access to any weights or only have a few kettlebells or dumbbells? No problem. Now is the ...
Stress and Performance
When designing exercise programs there is generally an inverse relationship between intensity and complexity. As training intensity goes up, ...
Movement Capacity, Fidelity, and Variability
Move well, move more It’s easy to simplify how we think about movement. You take something like a squat, ...
Optimization
By: Jon Pope “On the occasion of any accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire ...
The Attention-Pain Trade-Off
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we ...
Panic is the First Stage of Death
"The wise tell us that a nail keeps a shoe, a shoe a horse, a horse a man, a ...
Attention
We were standing in ranks on the beach in Coronado, California, in front of the Naval Special Warfare Center. ...
Every F**king Day
Nearly everyone knows of Demetrious Johnson - the 11-time UFC Champion, and top contender for greatest-of-all-time MMA fighter. A ...
Ikigai
Why do you keep going? “The two most dangerous years of your life are the year you’re born and ...
Commitment, Control, and Challenge: How Hardiness Helps Special Operators Succeed
Bodies can be remarkably strong. They’re hard to truly break, and - given the right circumstances - easy to ...
Special Operations Nutrition: Dealing with the Unpredictable
“What’s your name? Where are you? What day is it?” I had no idea. This strange yet vaguely familiar ...