Thread: bodybuilding and powerliftingt workouts compared to navy seal workouts

i think they are training for different things, a navy seal is almost being conditioned, there endurance goes up massively and they do put on some size but that not there main goal. a bodybuilders only goal is to put on muscle size and strength and less to do with endurance, so the different training techniques produce a more endurance orientated result in a seal and a more strength/size orientated result in a bodybuilder.

Bodybuilders are playing cat and mouse with their nervous systems. Seals don't acknowledge it as a limiting factor.

Originally Posted by Hoglander

Bodybuilders are playing cat and mouse with their nervous systems. Seals don't acknowledge it as a limiting factor.

They are training for completely different purposes.

Originally Posted by dteller1

i think they are training for different things, a navy seal is almost being conditioned, there endurance goes up massively and they do put on some size but that not there main goal. a bodybuilders only goal is to put on muscle size and strength and less to do with endurance, so the different training techniques produce a more endurance orientated result in a seal and a more strength/size orientated result in a bodybuilder.

This. Seals want to have endurance and bodybuilders want to get bigger. It's like comparing college classes for two different degrees.

I would not pay attention to those sites, i am joining the navy to try to be a seal, i am in delayed entry program and they have ex-seals that work-out with all the seal-candidates. i have been doing this for about 8 months. long story short the actual workouts they put us through, and do themselves are NOTHING like the cookie cutter politically good looking ones you see on the internet.

also, when we workout we dont count reps at all, period. If i had to pick one thing seals train the most it would be there minds, for example we will do push-ups untill no one has the energy to move there arms, then our mentor will say something like good job boys you earned some water. However when we stand up to get water he drops us back down saying he never said to GET water just that we EARNED it. And the other comments are spot on because as you can see that kind of training is geared twords endurance.