Craig Weller & Jonathan Pope: How to Train for Real-World Survival Scenarios
Abel James Show
Abel James Bascom
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
As the world we know seems to crumble all around us, how prepared are you for the worst case scenario?
Can you keep your head in a real world survival situation?
How can we train for the unexpected?
Is your health and fitness up to snuff?
Today we're here with Craig Weller and Jonathan Pope, co-authors of the incredibly informative and useful Special Operations book entitled Building the Elite.
Craig is former USN Special Warfare Combatant Crewman, who held a variety of instructional and diplomatic security roles in locations, including Kenya, the Philippines, Central America, South Sudan and Iraq. Jonathan is a Strength and Conditioning Coach with over 10 years of coaching experience.
Together, Jonathan and Craig co-founded Ethos Colorado Training Center, a full-service strength and conditioning facility based in Denver, Colorado.
They're sharing some powerful information today on how to think and train like a member of the elite special ops.
If you want to be ready for whatever is coming next, please listen to this entire interview.
On this show with Jonathan Pope and Craig Weller, we're chatting about:
• How to adapt your stress response to work in your favor • Why we should train for survival and not just performance • Harnessing the body's natural dopamine response for long-term success • How to train for fear • And much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Abel James and thanks so much for joining us on the Fat Burning Man Show, |
| 0:11.0 | where we talk about real food and real results. |
| 0:15.0 | As the world we know seems to crumble all around us, how prepared are you for the worst case scenario? Can you keep your head |
| 0:22.3 | in a real world survival situation? How can we train for the unexpected? Is your health and fitness |
| 0:28.1 | up to snuff? Today we're here with Craig Weller and Jonathan Pope, co-authors of the incredibly |
| 0:34.4 | informative and useful military special operations book entitled |
| 0:38.9 | Building the Elite. Craig is former USN Special Warfare combatant crewman who held a variety |
| 0:45.5 | of instructional and diplomatic security roles in locations including Kenya, the Philippines, |
| 0:50.6 | Central America, South Sudan, and Iraq. Jonathan is a strength and conditioning |
| 0:55.3 | coach with over 10 years of coaching experience. Together, Jonathan and Craig co-founded Ethos |
| 1:01.6 | Colorado Training Center, a full-service strength and conditioning facility based in Denver, Colorado. |
| 1:08.3 | They're sharing some powerful information today on how to think and train |
| 1:11.8 | like a member of the elite special ops. If you want to be ready for whatever is coming next, |
| 1:17.4 | please listen to this entire interview. Now before we get to our chat, here's a quick plug. If you'd |
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