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Introductions thread- Start Here 💪
Answer this questions in the comments 👇 🏋️♀️ Who are you and what are you working on right now? 🗻 What’s your biggest challenge at the moment? 🏆 What would make this community a massive win for you in the next 30–60 days?
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Reccomended Books List 🍎
The following are books that I would highly reccomend to anyone thinking about joining any SOF component. First up is Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starett, The best military athletes understand the importance of recovery and this is the textbook on how to become your own physical therapist. Could not reccomend this enough. https://amzn.to/46nkUBf If SFAS is on the horizon then I would reccomend, The Chosen Soldier by Dick Couch. Though a little dated and some things have changed, this book gives good insight into the 18X pipeline. https://amzn.to/4sfr5Qt For insight into what an ODA can do on a deployment there is, Hammerhead Six by Ronald Fry. This book is written about a dive team ODA in Afganistan and the work they put in on this particular deployment. It is also a unique perspective getting insight into what the National Guard SOF community has to offer. Defineatly worth checking out. https://amzn.to/47b6nZE For those with ambitions of becoming a batt boy and joining the Ranger Regiment there is, Sua Sponte also by Dick Couch. https://amzn.to/3P0MUVh If you want to learn the history about the SF regiment, I reccomend, From OSS to Green Berets by Col. Aaron Bank. This book is written by the father of the Green Berets, from his early days with the Office of Strategic Services and his training with the French resistance, to his tour of duty in Indochina and the creation of the Army's Special Forces Group. https://amzn.to/3Oxwt2F Another book with great insight into what deployments can look like there is, Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton. This book has also been made into a movie, 12 Strong, and tells the story of the first US forces in Afganistan after the events of 9/11. https://amzn.to/3Oxwt2F
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🏃 Why Running Faster Won't Get You Ready for SFAS
Most guys think speed work is what gets them ready for selection. It's not — your aerobic base is the single biggest factor in how you perform at SFAS, and most candidates build it wrong. Here's the mistake: hammering every run at max effort. That stalls the exact adaptation you need and burns you out before you even report. The fix is going slower on purpose — roughly 80% of your weekly running and rucking volume should sit at an easy, conversational pace (think 8:45-9:30/mile for most guys), with only about 20% spent on genuinely hard efforts. You're aiming for a 5-mile run in 35-40 minutes and a sub-13:00 two-mile as competitive benchmarks, but you get there by accumulating 6-10 hours a week of low-intensity work, not by redlining every session. This matters because SFAS doesn't test you fresh — it tests your aerobic engine after days of rucking and sleep deprivation. Guys with a big base recover between events; guys who only trained fast crash. What's your current 5-mile time, and honestly — how much of your weekly mileage is easy pace versus hard effort?
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Jun 24 •
Birthday Ruck
This year I thought that it would be a fun challenge to ruck on my birthday and do 1 mile and carry one pound for every year I have been alive, so thats 34 for me this year. So 34 Miles carrying 34lbs dry weight. Im currently training up the miles so that it is slightly less misserable come my bday.
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How Many Pushups and Pullups Do You Actually Need?
The Ranger School official standard is 49 push-ups and 6 pull-ups in two minutes. The candidates who show up strong don't train to the standard they train to a buffer above it. Aim for 80 push-ups in two minutes and 12 dead-hang pull-ups by the time you report. That gap matters because SFAS and Ranger School don't test you once on a good day they test you exhausted, sleep-deprived, and days into a ruck cycle. Two things guys get wrong in strength prep: they skip grip strength (you're carrying 50+ lbs for miles — dead hangs, farmer carries, and heavy rucking build grip that generic gym work won't), and they overtrain the final weeks instead of tapering, showing up gassed instead of sharp. Start a dedicated strength block at least 90 days out. Two sessions a week of compound lifts — squat, deadlift, weighted pull-ups, dips — is enough volume if the intensity is real. This isn't bodybuilding, it's building a body that survives selection. Where are you right now on push-ups and dead-hang pull-ups, and how many weeks out are you? Drop your current numbers below..
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