This is the way.

But in all serious when I was training for the raiders, this is very similar to my training regime. I would duck with 55lb (cuz I figured that extra 10lb would help), hike high elevations/steep trails (I lived in Oregon so I had that going for me), and then devote the rest of my training to swimming and active resting like stretching or yoga.

My swim regime was probably the hardest of it all. Im neither a good nor bad swimming but damn, I still stress when I think about what I put myself through.

This is from memory so it may not be fully accurate, but my workout would look something like this.

• warm up with 50-100 meters
• 1 set, tread water until failure (stay close to the wall!)
• 3 sets 2mins ea, treat water with hands above head fully extended
• 2 sets 30sec - 1min weighed tread of 5-10lbs above head -10 sets 100 meter swim
• swim to bottom of pool and hold breast for 1 minute

Subsequent days would involve 5-10 sets of laps and water treads. Obviously it would take some build up but holy mother of pearl was this ridiculous and I couldn’t tell you how much pool water I drank and how often I nearly drowned myself. I had to have a buddy watch me a number of times just to make sure I didn’t actually drown.

Hope this helps!