The Monday before their 17-16 loss to TCU, Boise State coach Chris Petersen took his red-shirt players to a Navy training base in San Diego for a taste of a SEAL workout. About 25 Broncos went through a 45-minute training session at Naval Base Coronado on Coronado Island, not far from the team hotel.
According to Petersen, "the workout started with the SEALs sending the players into the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean (which is about 55 degrees this time of year), then rolling them in sand. After that, the group did non-stop pushups and situps on the asphalt blacktop."
“It was a piece of what those guys do for six months all day long,” said Petersen. “I think it puts things in perspective when we think we work really hard. That’s a whole different level. It’s equivalent to kind of our 5:45 training, but you know it’s six months, it’s more intense, it’s longer. It just really tells you how many special people there are in this country to have the mental toughness to go through that — the love of this country, to fight for us.”
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