Navy Warrior Challenge 6
Navy Warrior Challenge 6
Navy Warrior Challenge 6
Take 1 week off completely. Do active recovery for this entire week. Try
to do a graded PST towards the end of your recovery week. After your
recovery week, start over at week 1. Your PST numbers should have
improved significantly over the 6 week program. Areas that were your
weak areas should now be your strong areas. Since this program is
based off percentages of your current PST numbers it will
increase in difficulty as your PST numbers improve. If after 6 weeks
your PST has not improved, contact your NSW Coordinator or Mentor to
talk about improvements to the plan and personalization.
Essential Concepts
Swim- Swimming is a technique based event. If you are working out
regularly you already have the cardiovascular fitness to complete a
fast swim. Work on perfecting your technique instead of Muscling
thru the workouts to improve your swim speed. Attending Swim clinics
is the fastest way to improve your swim time.
Strength Endurance- The PST is a muscular strength-endurance test. It
tests your ability to maintain your strength over an extended period of
time. The training pipelines for each W/C rate are designed to test your
muscular strength-endurance. In order to train for this you need to do
high volume, medium to light weight (bodyweight) exercises. While
many fitness programs focus on strength or endurance separately, the
W/C programs will require you to combine them. Training like a body
builder (beach workouts) or a tri-athlete will not accomplish your goals
for strength endurance. If you want to be a warrior then train like one.
Running- 800 yards is the optimal sprint distance to improve medium
distance (1.5-mile) speed. This distance is long enough to create a
lactic acid build-up in your muscles if done at max effort while still
allowing for aerobic contribution. Shorter distances remove the aerobic
function and will therefore improve short distance speed but may
cause you to hit a wall prior to reaching your 1.5 mile distance in a PST.
Longer distances do not allow you to run fast enough to improve your
speed over that distance.
LSD Runs- The focus of these longer runs is simply to allow your body
to adjust to the pounding that occurs over a long distance of running.
Over time your tendons, joints, and ligaments will build up to allow you
to get thru your pipeline without pain or injury. These runs do nothing
to improve your speed over shorter distances, although they do have a
side benefit in regards to your mental strength and work capacity.
When doing an LSD run you should be able to carry on a conversation
while running without becoming winded. If you cannot do this, you are
running too fast. Proper foot wear is important to ensure that you do
not get into an overtraining scenario on these long runs.
Additional information:
-Naval Special Warfare Injury Prevention Guide (BUD/S NSW IP Guide)
each set. The pyramids are done without a rest period between
exercises and with a 3-min rest between sets.I.E. If you did 60 pushups,
60 curl-ups, and 16 pullups on your last PST, your Super Pyramid would
look like this:
10 push-ups, 10 curl-ups, 4 pull-ups, 5 dips
20 push-ups, 20 curl-ups, 6 pull-ups, 10 dips
30 push-ups, 30 curl-ups, 8 pull-ups, 15 dips
20 push-ups, 20 curl-ups, 6 pull-ups, 10 dips
10 push-ups, 10 curl-ups, 4 pull-ups, 5 dips
*This equals 1 set.
Double Max
Do a max set of the exercise, rest 2 min, do another max set of the
exercise.
Burpee Madness
Run 400m, immediately do 25 Burpees. Rest for 2 min before
repeating.
Daily Routine
Doing an exercise throughout the day every hour on the hour for 8
hours.
Pushups and Situps- you will do 75% of whatever you did on your last
PST every hour
Pullups- you will do 50% of whatever you did on your last PST every
hour
I.E if you did 60 pushups on your last PST, you would do 45 pushups
every hour, on the hour for 8 hours a day.
Personal PST
Conduct a Practice PST on yourself. Ensure that you use a life-guarded
pool and bring a partner to time and count for you.
FTB-BTF PST
Conduct a regular PST on yourself, rest 10 min, then run the again PST
backwards, starting with the run. I.E. 500m swim, 2-min Pushups, 2min Curlups, Pull-ups, 1.5-mile Run, Rest 10-min, 1.5-mile Run, Pullups,
2-min Curlups, 2-min Pushups, 500m
swim
Aconyms:
PST- Physical Screening test
LSD- Long Slow Distance
FTB-BTF- Front-to-Back; Back-to-Front
CSS- Combat Side Stroke
Day 4
Rest- NO PT, do some active recovery
Day 5
Personal PST
Rest 10- min
LSD Run- 6 miles
Day 6
Swim
- Swim Warm-up
- Swim Workout
Balance Drill- 5 laps
Freestyle 100 yds
50M timed CSS. For example, if candidate X performed a 10:00
swim during the recent PST, than each lap (50M) should be 55 seconds
or faster. Repeat 10 times.
25M cool down, 50M timed.
300M freestyle at 80%
NOFFS Dynamic Warmup
Upper body Strength Endurance
- Super Pyramid x 6
Run
- 800-yd repeats x 6
NOFFS Static Stretching Cool-down
Commence Daily Routine for Weakest PST event
Day 7
Rest day- No PT
Week 4
Day 1
Swim- Warm-up
- Swim Workout
Balance Drill- 5 laps
Freestyle 100 yds
50M timed CSS. For example, if candidate X performed a 10:00
swim during the recent PST, than each lap (50M) should be 55 seconds
or faster. Repeat 10 times.
25M cool down, 50M timed.
300M freestyle at 80%
NOFFS Dynamic Stretching
Upper body Strength Endurance
- Super Pyramid x 6
Run
- 800-yd repeats x 6
NOFFS Static Stretching Cool-down
Commence Daily Routine for Weakest PST event
Day 2
Swim
- Balance drill- 5 laps
- 2000m CSS
NOFFS Dynamic Stretching
Upper Body Workout
- 25% Pyramid Pushups
- 25% Pyramid Pullups
- 25% Pyramid Curlups
- Repeat above x3, rest no more than 2-min between exercises
- Rest 10 min
- Double Max Weakest PST event
RunBurpee madness x 6
Day 3
Swim
- Swim Warm-up
- Swim Workout
Balance Drill- 5 laps
Freestyle 100 yds
50M timed CSS. For example, if candidate X performed a 10:00
swim during the recent PST, than each lap (50M) should be 55 seconds
or faster. Repeat 10 times.
25M cool down, 50M timed.
300M freestyle at 80%
NOFFS Dynamic Warmup
Upper Body Strength Endurance
- 50% Negative Pyramids Pushups
- 50% Negative Pyramids Curlups
- 50% Negative Pyramids Pullups
- Repeat above x3, rest no more than 2-min between exercises
- Double Max Pushups
- Double Max Curlups
- Double Max Pullups
Run
- 800 yd repeats x6
NOFFS Static Stretching cool down
Commence Daily Routine for weakest PST event
Day 4
Day 6
Swim
- Swim Warm-up
- Swim Workout
Balance Drill- 5 laps
Freestyle 100 yds
50M timed CSS. For example, if candidate X performed a 10:00
swim during the recent PST, than each lap (50M) should be 55 seconds
or faster. Repeat 10 times.
25M cool down, 50M timed.
300M freestyle at 80%
NOFFS Dynamic Warmup
Upper body Strength Endurance
- Super Pyramid x 6
Run
- 800-yd repeats x 8
NOFFS Static Stretching Cool-down
Commence Daily Routine for Weakest PST event
Day 7
Rest day- No PT
Week 6
Day 1
Swim- Warm-up
- Swim Workout
Balance Drill- 5 laps
Freestyle 100 yds
50M timed CSS. For example, if candidate X performed a 10:00
swim during the recent PST, than each lap (50M) should be 55 seconds
or faster. Repeat 10 times.
25M cool down, 50M timed.
300M freestyle at 80%
NOFFS Dynamic Stretching
Upper body Strength Endurance
- Super Pyramid x 5
Run
- 800-yd repeats x 8
NOFFS Static Stretching Cool-down
Commence Daily Routine for Weakest PST event
Day 2
Swim