How To 20x Yourself: Training & Anti-Aging Secrets Of One Of The Most Bad-Ass Navy SEAL Coaches On The Face Of The Planet.

Ben Greenfield (0:00)

Hello, folks, this is Ben Greenfield. There is no sponsor for today's podcast episode. As a matter of fact, today's podcast episode is extremely special because it's a bonus episode. I don't usually release a podcast on Tuesdays, but there is something so cool coming down the pipeline that I had to push this out via audio to you. If you follow bengreenfieldfitness.com, the newsletter or the blog, you may have noticed that yesterday I announced a brand new event taking place at my house for a hundred people, July 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2016

It is called a SealFit 20X event, and it is followed up by an obstacle training event. And in this podcast episode, you're going to meet one of the masterminds behind SealFit, and towards the end of the episode, you're going to learn pretty much everything you need to know, physical standards, what to expect, how to get ready, all that jazz for this event that's coming up at my place July 8th, 9th, and 10th. So I'm going to be interviewing Navy Seal Lance Cummings, and you can access the show notes for everything you're about to hear over at bengreenfieldfitness.com/20x. That's bengreenfieldfitness.com/20x. And if you are brave enough, I'll see you at my place this July.

In this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Show.

Lance Cummings (1:26)

If you've got a lot of plates up in the air, and you've got a lot of things in the fire, you don't have two or three hours a day to work out. So you try to do as much as possible in a short amount of time, and you have to make that functional, mobile movements to the best of your ability in order to work efficiently.

Identify those dysfunctions, and you can train your body to alleviate those dysfunctions and compensations, and become balanced and strong, not just upper body, lower body, but right side, left side, then you're going to live a long, healthy, happy life.

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Ben Greenfield (2:21)

Whatever it is for you that's the natural movement.

When you look at all the studies done. Studies that have shown the greatest efficacy.

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Ben Greenfield (2:56)

Hey, folks, it's Ben Greenfield here. And about two years ago, I wrote an article on my experience at this brutal camp called the Seal Fit Kokoro, which is this 60 plus hour crucible that you can read more about in the link that I'm gonna give you in a little bit here to the podcast that you're listening to right now. But anyways, in that article, I mentioned this guy whose snarling face strikes fear deep into the heart of just about every person that steps foot onto this Kokoro camp. And his name is Lance Cummings. And Coach Lance is known for probably the single guy that dishes out the most amount of suffering and hardship for anybody brave enough to step into Kokoro.

And even though that's what he's known for, there's actually a lot more to him than simply being a guy who could probably kill you with his pinky finger.

So technically, Lance is the director of SealFit, which is the organization down in Encinitas, California. You may have heard of Mark Devine before. He's written books like Warrior Yoga and Way of the Seal. And Lance is kind of one of his right hand men down there. But before that, Coach Cummings retired from active duty Navy service with 30 years of combined service. He graduated in BUDS class 124 and had a great deal of experience serving with the Navy Seals. But he left active duty in the 90s to actually get a doctorate of chiropractic. And so he graduated with a chiropractic degree. And then he was recalled to active duty and deployed to the Middle East, where he did seven deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq with three different seal teams, as well as contracting with Blackwater Security. So this guy has been all over the freaking globe.

I've had a chance to see him in action down in San Diego, and he's one of the fittest, most put together, and I'm hoping I don't offend him by saying this, old guys that I've ever witnessed in action. He's done hundreds of triathlons. He's done multi-day adventure races. He once paddled from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Panama Canal. In 15 hours, he's done endurance horse racing. He's been a member of the World Championship teams in military pentathlon, naval pentathlon, outrigger canoe, and dragon boat racing. He's won marksmanship awards in competition in handgun and carbine.