The amazing strength of the human body

Well this is my first post on blogger, so this should be interesting. I am reading this book called the Lone Survivor. It is a true story about a navy SEAL team who travels to Afghanistan to take out a few terrorist. That is just a very quick and brief explanation. The main point of the blog that I am writing is the training that is needed to be a navy SEAL. Not only do you have to be in the best physical shape of your life, but you have to have a strong mind. Not just anyone can go for a run on the beach with five people while holding a full size telephone pole...sounds crazy right? But to these guys its just business as usual. As I said earlier you have to have a strong mind in order to finish all the daunting tasks that all the instructors give to you. The training that the seals have to go through is called BUD/S training which stands for basic underwater demolition SEAL. BUD/S training is a 24 week long course. More than half of the people that enlist in the BUD/s training quit before the end. The entire course is compiled of many different physically and mentally challenging tasks. Physical conditioning, diving, and land warfare make up the biggest chunks of the course. These are some of the requirements.....minimum of 500 yd swim under 12:30, 42 push ups minimum in 2 minutes, at least 6 pull ups from a dead hang minimum, and a 1.5 mile run that has to be under 10:30 and ran in boots and trousers. Those are just the requirements. All of that is a cake walk compared to "Hell week". Hell week is five days and five nights with a solid four hours of sleep.I will hit on that a little bit later once i get farther in the book. It still seems to amaze me how amazing our body's are, and what they can endure.