Building the Elite Podcast

In this episode we have a conversation with Casey Glass, who has been a strength and conditioning coach at an active duty special operations unit for the past eight years. Alongside helping the operators she works with to excel in their training workups and deployments, Casey also manages their preparation training for selection into tier one units. On this call, we discuss the framework that she and the rest of her human performance team use for training special operators, viewed through a model she calls the big five. These five categories make up the biggest pieces of a successful training process. If you’re an active duty special operator, or trying to become one, this is a really helpful model that you can use to evaluate or design your own training process. 

This this episode we talk about how our stress responses and pain perceptions work, how they’re affected by training, and how we can develop our capacity for productive suffering. 

You don't know somebody until you've seen them make hard decisions.It's easy to be kind when kindness is easy.It's easy to be generous when generosity is easy.Until doing the right thing is also the hardest thing to choose, you don't know what kind of person someone is at their core.

In this episode we  talk about impulsivity, quitting, and how your training and mindset affect what you’re capable under stress. 

In today's podcast we  talk about coping and solving problems instead of ignoring them. Problems go away when you solve them. Yes, this seems obvious. However, much of the background stress or anxiety that we experience comes from problems we are avoiding.

In this episode we talk about the most common framework we use to categorize training phases and how to apply this concept.

In this episode we talk about one of the most useful mental skills that our clients use to succeed in special operations selection courses, and how it can be applied in your own life, no matter what your occupation is.