A SEAL’s training is extremely demanding, both mentally and physically, and produces the world’s best maritime warriors.
Navy SEAL Candidates must attend and graduate from a gruelling 24-week course known as Basic Underwater Demolition aka ‘BUDS’, a basic parachutist course and the 26 week SEAL qualification program. BUDS training is broken down into three phases that provide the Navy SEALS with the physical and combat skills essential for their role. It is this period that will also help them develop a will of iron.
In the later second and third phases of ‘BUDS’ SEAL’s cover combat skills such as diving, SCUBA skills, combat diving, land navigation, small-unit tactics, explosives, and weapons training. However, before they get anywhere near combat training a Navy SEAL candidate must survive the first phase – Basic Physical Conditioning.
The first phase of BUDS is nine weeks in length. It involves continued physical conditioning using running, swimming, and bodyweight exercises that become more intense as weeks go by.