re: Any baw considering the Navy Seal fitness screen test

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It's one thing to look at the metrics, but to actually do it (to standard) one event after the other in an extremely competitive environment is vastly different.

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100%

I know I could do the optimum swim directly to the run, but not hitting that pace after the exercises in the middle.

Everyone here is also assuming that’s the end of the day after you hit that LOL.

And then there’s that watch guy that claims he can hold a 49 sec/100yd pace across 3200 yds. Someone needs to teach him how to read a tachometer on his fancy watches.

Guys, quit feeding the troll. I’m in the military, and probably couldn’t pass it. And I’m ok with that. Y’all are absolutely right about doing it back to back, under pressure etc. More mental than physical. There’s a reason he ain’t in the military but still posting in this thread.

As Teddy Roosevelt said:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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And then there’s that watch guy that claims he can hold a 49 sec/100yd pace across 3200 yds.

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You could get some lower end d1 money for doing that pace for a 200 Do it for a 500 and you can knock 1.3 seconds off the American record.

Mungo never served in the military, let alone in a combat zone and yet here he is with his expert opinion

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Not to be a dick but you don’t swim 3200 yards in 26 minutes lol.

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You aren't being a dick you just missed the context I switched yards to feet though I didn't say so but it seems clear from the totality of what I wrote:

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The swim has me stumped. I know I could get minimum since I swim 3200 in the Diversion in about 26 minutes, as I am better endurance wise than speed wise I am not sure I could do 1500 in 8:50 but probably could with a couple of months working on my stroke efficiency.

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Notice I compared the 3200 to 1500 which is the feet equivalent of the 500-yard test swim.

Mea culpe on failing to show the units be I think it is clear I was not suggesting I could swim 3200 yards in ~26 minutes. I gauge distance swimming in the canal based on the number of lots which are measured in feet, I swim 800 feet downstream, then 1600 upstream, and back to my house another 800 downstream. I doubt I could swim a 3200 yard in 26 minute pace for 5 meters including diving off the blocks.

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which is the feet equivalent

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Just a heads up no one ever measures swim distance or better yet anything distance wise in feet.

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Saint Alfonzo

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At the time I passed the SEAL test

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Is the swim any stroke or does it have to be sidestroke? That makes a huge difference. Knew several that went through BUDS and they practiced sidestroke leading up to heading off.

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Is the swim any stroke or does it have to be sidestroke?

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I think you're confusing sidestroke with combat sidestroke. 2 distinctly different things, unless you're wearing fins lol. A kid i did lifeguard training with, and drove his younger sister to swim practice, is a BUDS instructor. Pretty sure you can do any stroke you desire in that 500 yard swim, from our talks over the years.

My buddy was average for a competitive swimming, definitely sub 1:00 in 100 fly yards, but probably not below a 57. He actually was an instructor with one of my best friend's college teammate from vtech, but you absolutely don't need to be a "swimmer" to pass SEAL training. shite, i even know an olympic silver medalist who got turned down at application because his uncorrected vision was an asscrack out of acceptable range. Pretty sure he's an officer in the Marines instead.

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Just a heads up no one ever measures swim distance or better yet anything distance wise in feet.

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I get that and I should have included the feet. The reason I use feet for my open water swims is that I measure the distance by the number of lots I swim past which comes out to 3200 feet for my normal distance swim. I could have called it a 1066.67 yard swim but I was doing the math in my head so using the round numbers from feet was just natural.

Mea culpe for the second time for neglecting to use the units.