Sleep Deprivation in Navy SEAL Hell Week - How Much Sleep Do BUD/s Candidates Get?
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- čas přidán 29. 12. 2022
- Navy SEAL hell week is probably the most well known part of BUD/s training. Hell week starts on Sunday night and ends Friday afternoon. Potential SEALs are pushed to their physical and mental limits with little to no sleep over the course of those 5 days. So how much sleep do they get?
Listen to former Navy SEAL Garrett Uncelbach talk about how much sleep they get and why as well as share his own experience of sleep deprivation during hell week.
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I have insomnia and I think about the seals to give me a boost when I’m sleep deprived
It's a good perspective shift for sure.
Me too. Terrible insomnia. So I think staying up for the entire hell week would only be a minor annoyance. 😂
Me too! I get no sleep because PTSD from a house fire and I think of navy seals when I get no sleep and have to do a 12 hour shift
*I'm 41 and got 2 kids Hell Week sounds like the first 3 months of my babies being born*
We can relate. And you only go through hell week once ideally! Although Goggins did it 3 times.
Bahahha no u don't have to run 24/7 rasing a child is much easier
@@theimpossiblelifepodcastthom shea did 5 of them.
First 3 months of your babies being born, minus the 200ish-plus miles of running with a boat on your head while drenched with saltwater and sand, freezing, and chafing wherever your clothes touch your skin.
All while having just completed the physical beat down of first phase, with second and third phase still to come, then SQT, jump school, cold weather training in Kodiak Alaska, etc…
Yeah bro just like raising babies, getting drowned on purpose, constant running in sand, swimming for hours in freezing ocean, carrying giant logs and boats with barely any food, getting cussed out by instructors the whole time. Just like raising newborns.
Hi. Thanks for your channel. Went through hell week 2x. First class 116, (dropped after failing pool comp) Went through again, class 125. Both similar as I recall. Both sucked big time. Side note: When I got to BUD/S in June of 81, I watched Breakout for 113. Back then, breakout was at midnight, and they did the percussion grenades' and M60 w blanks inside(!) the barracks. A couple a windows broke and after that, they started the Tents. For 125, the first night of sleep for us was on Wednesday (I think) after paddling down to the Tijuana mud flats. We made a fire, and they let us make shelters with the IBS'. Was possible the worst moment of the week when they woke us after maybe an hour or 2 of sleep, and had us take a dunk in the pacific. That was bad. I hated the Pilipino instructor for that. It was miserable. In 116, I was in the tall guys boat, and we won every evolution in Hell week. As a reward, they let us secure on Friday, around noon. I had scars for many years from the chaffing. Being wet is bad. being cold is bad. Being cold and wet, that was the hardest part of hell week. Very few can handle it. I never contemplated quitting. Not an option. Graduated Nov 83. Hooya.
HOOYA! Thanks for sharing your story
@@theimpossiblelifepodcast Just an FYI, Rick D is a poser. I've run across him in a few other places.
Outstanding! In June of 81 I was in the 82nd ABN and was counting down the days on my short time calendar. At that time I didn't even know what a Navy Seal was. Delta was just starting up in that era. We used to see these guys with long hair running around Ft Bragg, sometimes in uniform and sometimes not.
Yep, you Seals were the tip of the spear and I didn't know you even existed. I really appreciate what you guys do.
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You can sleep while moving let the boat crew stand watch basically while running, hey you close your eyes than after he opens hey your next.
Exactly!
I’m try to for 3 days no sleep it been the first day already but do I start hallucinating on the 3rd day? Cus if not so I can just go to sleep rn
Sleep deprivation hits everyone differently. Staying active is the best way to stay awake. People wonder how BUD/s candidates stay awake. It's because they never let us stop moving.
One thing I've always wondered...from what I understand, BUDS has three phases of nine weeks each. I'm sure we've all seen a documentary on youtube about class 234; it's six episodes long, the first three are about the first two weeks of Phase 1, the last two are about Phases 2 and 3, and the fourth one is about hell week. What happens AFTER hell week for the remainder of Phase 1? Presumably they can't beat you up quite as bad as at the beginning, and I would guess there has to be some kind of recovery (both physical and mental) from all the work and sleep deprivation. And I would also assume that pretty much everyone who is going to quit has already quit, so the weed out process is largely done (except for, say, technical or intellectual failures in the later stages). So, what is the short/medium term aftermath of hell week? How do you spend your time for the next six weeks or so?
The week after hell week is what's known as walking evolution. You walk everywhere and everyone is still very beat up. It is focused on recovery. That is the ONLY time in BUD/s you're allowed to walk. You are required to jog/run everywhere all the time. After completing walking evolution week, the following week starts with a timed 4 mile run. You do a number of these throughout BUD/s and have a limited amount of failures allowed in that test or else you are kicked out. So that should tell you what the rest of the time in 1st phase is like. It is not easy and normal beat down service resumes. The only easy day was yesterday... We got beat downs in every phase.
What you said about hell week is partially true. 70% of students that make it through hell week graduate, but there are still some guys that can't pass the physical and mental tests that take place in 2nd and 3rd phase. Pool comp in 2nd phase is one that guys fail because of the pressure, attention to detail required, and difficulty.
I hope that helps.
Maybe 4 if you’re lucky. Most get 2 hrs. The irony is hydro hell week you dont get much more and you have to think. Noone ever talks about this. Or draeger hell week.
Which podcast episode is this clip from?
This actually isn't from a podcast episode. This was just something that some people asked about so we filmed it seperately.
@@theimpossiblelifepodcast Oh I thought there may have been a longer version to watch because it looked like the ending was cut off.
How many hours does they sleep during training for 6 month for becoming seal on daily basis?
It varies based on the day to day activities but it can be 3-4 hours regularly because you have to clean your gear when you complete the day's training and then muster very early the next morning. You get sleep on the weekends in BUD/s if you're wise.
I would be like Bill Murray from Stripes....lol.
And I think one night with no sleep is bad 😂
Ha. It's a perspective shift for sure.
I completely understand why he chose to stay awake the 2nd time. I feel much better pulling an all-nighter than dozing off for 45 minutes and being startled awake by an alarm clock! That's just plain cruel.
Yeah. Instructors were always messing with us and they got me on this one.
I’m only here cuz I gotta work in 2 hours and haven’t slept so I use the seals as motivation 🫡
thats exactly how i survive a 9 hour shift in the kitchen with literally 0 seconds of sleep. think this shi the military, wake tf up and get on w ur job😅
@@devitus781Nah that’s just normal work
Same here haha 😂
Bro spot on exactly why I'm here 😂
I've been there. I haven't done it for 5 days though...lol. I would be a zombie.