Jael
Verified Military
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- Dec 8, 2009
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I did a few searches for Mental, Mental Preparation, mind prep but nothing came up to my satisfaction. Although admittedly im not that internet savvy.
I was wondering what you all have done to prepare mentally, I am a believer that PT comes second to the mind/heart aspect of training, if those aren't there then you'll crumble.
What i've done so far is as follows (maybe this'll help any people in my situation)
I bought a book called Get Selected! For Special Forces (Army book, although I'm aspiring USAF SOC), it details a huge amount of mental preperation and how the author tells about life in the SF, what he did and went through, also has a really good workout in the end that has mental prep as apart of the homework/workout routine.
Re-reading the Pararescue creed, recording it to my phone so i can listen to it.
Saying an affirmation from NavySeals.com "I am disciplined and committed to achieving elite level fitness and being mentally tough. I will not waiver in my dedication and will stick to my training plan".
Reading/Re-reading the Ranger Creed, haven't got it memorized and i most likely wont ever need to say it or write it down but its powerful, doing the same with the Special Forces creed.
In the book get selected he talked about Anthony Robbins, take him or leave him for what he is he does talk about motivation and achieving dreams and its a nice listen when your tired, audio book inscribed into my phone along with another book called 100 ways to motivate yourself.
Studying Martial Arts has undoubtedly been a huge mental boost along with physical, the majority of my class mates are also active military personnel so that enables me to ask a lot of questions.
Watching Rescue Warriors is always a nice boost to my awareness of what may happen in Indoc.
Is there anything that you do to give yourself more mental fortitude?
I was wondering what you all have done to prepare mentally, I am a believer that PT comes second to the mind/heart aspect of training, if those aren't there then you'll crumble.
What i've done so far is as follows (maybe this'll help any people in my situation)
I bought a book called Get Selected! For Special Forces (Army book, although I'm aspiring USAF SOC), it details a huge amount of mental preperation and how the author tells about life in the SF, what he did and went through, also has a really good workout in the end that has mental prep as apart of the homework/workout routine.
Re-reading the Pararescue creed, recording it to my phone so i can listen to it.
Saying an affirmation from NavySeals.com "I am disciplined and committed to achieving elite level fitness and being mentally tough. I will not waiver in my dedication and will stick to my training plan".
Reading/Re-reading the Ranger Creed, haven't got it memorized and i most likely wont ever need to say it or write it down but its powerful, doing the same with the Special Forces creed.
In the book get selected he talked about Anthony Robbins, take him or leave him for what he is he does talk about motivation and achieving dreams and its a nice listen when your tired, audio book inscribed into my phone along with another book called 100 ways to motivate yourself.
Studying Martial Arts has undoubtedly been a huge mental boost along with physical, the majority of my class mates are also active military personnel so that enables me to ask a lot of questions.
Watching Rescue Warriors is always a nice boost to my awareness of what may happen in Indoc.
Is there anything that you do to give yourself more mental fortitude?