A Post On Fitness Training That I Found In a Digital Folder On My PC

It was dated Jan 2002,  no authors name though. Makes for a good read, even if you don't agree with everything on it. Give it a look and see what you think. YMMV

 

01-14-2002
Most people don't realize the enormous amounts of energy required by SEAL
and Force Recon types of operations. Strength counts almost for nothing.
The ability to put in long hours of activity, cover great distances and
function around and in cold water matter most.
For those with SEAL aspirations, a half hour of stretching, pull-ups,
push-ups, followed by a daily three-mile run and a two-mile open-water
swim will do.

However, most people don't have SEAL aspirations; rather they want to wear
their body like a costume, for the same reason we choose a car to drive.
Cars ought to provide nothing more than transportation.
Nonetheless, we lust after cars that will go 180 miles per hour and SUV's
that have the appearance of ability to go off road, accross the great
deserts, through the jungles and over the mountains.

We do this to impress other people, convince ourselves of our own personal
worth, and to maintain our illusions of power, safety and control.
If a person wants to wear a wrestler's body as a costume, he can put in
three or four hours a day, six days a week, and possibly sustain this for
six years before injuries make it impossible to continue.
In the real world, cardio-vascular fitness and healthy movement mean
everything.

Run at a comfortable pace 20 minutes a day, three days a week.
Swim laps for 20 minutes twice a week.
Learn to play handball (not racquetball) and play twice a week (hard to
find players anymore, start a club).
Study Tai Chi or purchase some Feldenkrais tapes and use them.
Study Judo or JuJitsu twice a week.
Hang a speed bag and a heavy bag in the garage (for those who have no
garage, I have a method for hanging a heavy bag in the house that will not
transmit sound to the rest of the building - contact me).
Learn to skip rope.
Buy a door frame pull-up bar from a wrestler's supply house and do
pull-ups three days a week.
Use the floor for push-ups and sit-ups three days a week.

Treat the body with respect, as one would a friend, and do not cause it
injury.
The body desires and appreciates wholesome exercise; it loathes pain and
punishment.
If we push our body too hard, it will respond to exercise with anxiety,
and we will find ourselves not doing our workouts.
Do no more than 80% of maximum during exercise.
With consistency, the maximum, and the 80% of maximum, will increase
dramatically.
Schedule out the week on Sunday evening.
Put it on paper.
Make appointments with yourself and keep them, just as one would an
appointment with the doctor.