Archive: Daily SGPT Content

Twenty minutes after takeoff from La Guardia, the Southwest passengers heard several explosions and watched as debris fell from the port engine. Adding to the incident, the falling debris broke a window; the woman seated next to it started to get sucked through it. The plane pitched to a roll of 41 degrees. Passenger airlines... Read More

When looking at conditioning your body, there are a few variables to consider. For one does your conditioning program help to improve your overall fitness for life? Being human our physical makeup is designed in such a way that we are built for performing intervals of work followed by intervals of recovery. The process by... Read More

In this episode on his series about mental toughness, Jeff Nichols covers a different side of never quitting: Creating trust, and how small acts of keeping your word lays the groundwork for the more physical side of mental toughness. As you watch the video, think about ways you already do this in your life—with family,... Read More

SEALgrinderPT Interviews climbing legend Randy Leavitt SGPT: When and how did you start climbing? RL: I started in approximately 1975, at 14/15 years old. (Randy on the overhanging hand crack, River of Life) SGPT: Who were your early mentors? RL: I climbed with the Stonemasters. My heros included Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman. SGPT: Can... Read More

Weight loss is often oversimplified to calories in versus calories out. The reality is that losing weight is much more complicated than that and there is more to the process than how many calories you eat versus how many calories you burn. Weight loss involves many interrelated factors such as nutrition, sleep, genetics, hormones, mental... Read More

By Brandon Richey Kettlebell training is no doubt one of the most versatile means of training that you can employ to achieve a tremendous level of fitness. In fact, if you’re proficient with your kettlebell lifting technique you can build a super strong and super fit body that could do well in most any functionally... Read More

While taught in all branches of the U.S. military (as well as police forces), combatives (also called “CQC” for “close quarters combat) has its roots in World War II. Developed by William E. Fairgairn and Eric A. Sykes (also known for their Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife) first began teaching hand-to-hand/melee fighting to the British Armend Forces,... Read More

By Brandon Richey, B.S.,CSCS Kettlebell training is no doubt one of the most versatile means of training that you can employ to achieve a tremendous level of fitness. In fact, if you’re proficient with your kettlebell lifting technique you can build a super strong and super fit body that could do well in most any... Read More

“Sheepdog response is an opportunity for us to change the current culture of Americans.” Being a sheepdog—a protector—is something we advocate here at SEALGrinderPT, and all of our training is based around that mindset. Do you consider yourself a sheepdog? How do you act as one? Is it something you feel you can’t do because... Read More

Just got this question the other day from an SGPT Athlete. “Coach, how can I increase my functional strength? What are the best movements that I can perform to get an increase? So what is a functional movement? Are you aware of how functional you are with your current training? How high would you rate... Read More

Mark Divine, founder of SEALFIT, talks about how letting in external negativity and allowing it to become internal creates chaos and an inability to create positivity. “Negativity corrodes.” Watch this episode of SEALFIT TV to the end, and, as you do, think of past and current situations where you’re allowing negativity—internal and/or external—to run the... Read More

By Brandon Richey The dreaded weight cut is something that has always been a somewhat haunting factor for athletes who are preparing for an event, and many athletes have adopted some bad habits for dropping fat. Cutting should never be done to compromise performance and health, so today I want to talk a little about... Read More

Robert O’Neill, the SEAL TEAM 6 member who shot Osama bin Laden in 2011, believes it’s time for the release of actual photos of Bin Laden’s dead body. All photos currently listed as such, he says, are “bogus”. The original—and real ones have remained—classified. “It’s something that I don’t mention in my book, and I... Read More

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