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The Official United States Air Force Elite Workout
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About the Author
Andrew Flach has written extensively on the subject of fitness. His series on military fitness, documenting the workouts of the Navy SEALs, the US Naval Academy, and US Marines, received praise from both civilian and military audiences alike. Peter Field Peck is one of the leading sports/fitness photojournalists in the United States. His photos have appeared in numerous books, magazines, and newspapers.
23/08/2001
It is about time AF Special Forces gets some recognition. While primarily intended for someone planning on entering AF Special Operations and wishes to prepare for the grueling indoctronation course, it offers an excellent regimine for keeping fit. All too often the public assumes that only Army, Marine and SEAL special forces demand a lot physically and the Air Force is "Soft". With a higher wash-out rate and longer, more intensive training required than any other Special Forces group, CCT's and PJ's often get applicants who fail within the first few days as they are not in condition. A great book for the fitness nut.
07/03/2000
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I'm confused - both repetition sets and timed sets, week by-week, but also the weight training circuit (pretty easy to follow with equipment in a normal gym, though you may have to do some substitutions for different machines). It also has a calendar showing the running times and types (intervals, etc.) and swimming distances used for each day of the 9 weeks.
What could prepare you better for a course than actually doing the workouts that you'll do in the course?
22/09/1999
Having patiently waited for several months after its scheduled release, it finally hits the shelves, and I find myself very disappointed. Don't get me wrong; the book does an excellent job in covering the INDOC course that the Pararescue and Combat Control candidates have to go through. This type of information is gold for those of us who are planning to attend. Before now, you had to know someone who had gone through the course to get this kind of insight, since there is little to no information to be found on these career fields, unlike that of the world renowned Navy SEALs. This book breaks the INDOC course down and explains nearly everything you'll need to know to mentally and physically prepare yourself for "one of the most vigorous and demanding training regimens known to man." So what's the problem? Before this book, the best thing out there for preparing to attend INDOC was, and still is, THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO NAVY SEAL FITNESS, also published by-day and tells you exactly what you need to be doing each day. My buddies who have used this workout and gone on to the INDOC course said they had no problems doing the workouts there. My disappointment is that I was expecting the same type of specific guidance as is given in the Navy SEAL book; instead, they just republished the standard general guidelines that I had already received from the Air Force for free. For anyone interested in becoming a PJ or CCT, I recommend both books; use THE OFFICIAL UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ELITE WORKOUT for becoming familiar with the program and what it entails, but use THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO NAVY SEAL FITNESS to physically prepare for the many "smoke sessions" you'll endure while your there. With an 85% washout rate, you can't be too prepared.
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