You should be concerned about two things: 1) injuries and 2) swimming/drownproofing. I’ll get the second one out of the way first because it’s pretty straightforward- the PJ pipeline features an absurd amount of swimming and water confidence events. Your training needs to accommodate this. If it is anything like the pipeline I went through, swimming will be your chief physical obstacle. While there is also a great deal of running/rucking, it’s much more likely that you’ll wash out due to lack of capacity in the water than on land. Re: injuries- most guys wash out of SOF training because they quit or get hurt. From the looks of things you are already dealing with a foot injury. This is not good. You need to prioritize getting your body healthy and keeping it that way if you are going to have any shot at all. You can’t afford to spend the next year training around/ignoring an injury, even a minor one. It will be hard to heal while going through an aggressive training program at the same time, especially one that features a lot of time on your feet. I would recommend that you spend the next few months getting very serious about swimming. Check out Stew Smith’s videos on the combat side stroke. If you’re anywhere near Maryland, go to one of his weekend workouts in Annapolis. Totally free, and the guy’s coaching is priceless. If you go about this the right way, you’ll give your foot time to get healthy while also working on your swimming. Then, maybe around the summer, you can start to integrate more running and rucking.
Short answer- based on the numbers you’ve provided (and good on you for assessing yourself candidly), you could hypothetically get yourself ready in a year. You’ve got a lot of work to do to get yourself into the proper condition, but it’s doable. But doing so will require you to make this your #1 priority- that means nutrition, recovery, and commitment to individual workouts has to be 100%. You just don’t have time to screw around. If you have some more time, say 18-24 months, that’s a different story.
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Thanks a ton. So when I’m running in the heat (this will be unavoidable for a big chunk of the year), should I slow as much as is necessary to get my HR below my AeT (once I find that number with the HR drift test), or should I use a pace that I know would put me around my AeT in cooler weather and ignore the 10-15bpm increase that’s attributed to the heat?ParticipantAlso I should probably add that from what I’ve read I fit the model for ADS- long history of Crossfit style glycolitic work between my personal life and my former job (military), in which I did “longer efforts” (i.e. 30-60 minutes) pretty regularly, but at way higher intensity than the Z2 focus I’ve learned from reading TFTNA. So I can hike 12 miles with a 40-50 lb pack and maintain sub-15:00 miles, but will feel like shit afterwards and the next day.
ParticipantMakes sense. So then, should my approach be to slow my pace down even further (almost to a walk) so as to keep my HR below the AeT number I got from the nasal breathing treadmill test, and just focus on putting in the hours to get that threshold and pace to move up?
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