Department of Military and Emergency Medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 1997. — 300 pages.The Navy SEAL Physical Fitness Guide has prepared for the SEAL community with suvm-al goals in mind. Our objective in to provide you, the operator, with information to help:Enhance the physical abilities required to perform Special Operations mission-related physical tasks;
Promote long-term cardiovascular health and physical fitness;
Prevent injuries and accelerate return to duty;
Maintain physical readiness under deployed or embarked environments.If this guide is able to achieve those goals, it will be a major success Being a SEAL is a tough job and requires enormous physical strength and stamina. Injuries, both chronic and acute are occupational hazards, but there are training measures and precautions that can he used to decrease the incidence of these injuries. Underatanding the basics of physical fitness can go a long way to achieving these goals.
