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This Guy Tried the Workout and Diet That Helped Navy
SEAL David Goggins Lose 100 Pounds in 3 Months
YouTuber Will Tennyson called it “the most epic and intense routine" he's ever
seen.

BY
JESSE HICKS
MAY 26, 2020

When David Goggins was 24, he stood 6’1” and weighed nearly 300 pounds.
Motivated by a chance encounter with a television commercial one night, he
decided he wanted to become a Navy SEAL. His weight, unsurprisingly, was a
problem; according to a recruiter, at his height he could only weigh 191 pounds if
he wanted to be a SEAL. In less than three months, in what he admits was a
“crazy, crazy, crazy routine,” Goggins dropped the pounds.

YouTuber Will Tennyson wondered what would happen if he tried to follow in

Goggins’ footsteps, in what he calls “the most epic and intense routine I have ever

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seen in my life.” It helped Goggins lose more than one pound a day, but as
Tennyson learned, that meant starting the day at 4:30 AM. Breakfast consisted of:
a banana. Then he hit the exercise bike for an hour. (It goes without saying: This is
not a routine we'd recommend anyone actually try—it's not healthy, and for the
vast majority of people, not sustainable.)

For some people, that would be enough

exercise for one day, but Tennyson was just
getting started. Next up was a two-hour swim.
Then a three-hour, high-rep workout. We’re
talking extremely high reps, in the hundreds;
Goggins once beat the world record for pull-
ups, at 4030.

Tennyson goes on at that pace all day,

essentially never resting, fueled by nothing
more than a banana and water from breakfast
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until dinner. It’s a grueling pace that leaves him
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wakes up five pounds lighter—at least partly
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from dehydration. He burned more than 5000
calories, and consumed just 800, for a
ridiculous calorie deficit. He spent 441 minutes exercising.

Again, that's likely not sustainable for most people—and definitely not
recommended—even if it was an average day for Goggins. Tennyson, for his part,
says just a single day of the Goggins workout “tested me mentally and physically.”
Watch the video here:

I followed David Goggins' PRE NAVY SEAL daily ro…

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JESSE HICKS
Jesse Hicks is a Detroit-based writer and former features editor at The Verge who specializes in longform stories about
science, health, and technology.

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