what's going on swim fans I am here in sunny southern California, i'm actually in Irvine
and today I'm doing a Deep End Fitness workout. It's gonna be absolutely amazing and I can't wait
to show you guys what this is all about let's go! Deep End Fitness was founded by US Marines
special operations water survival specialists and University of Southern California Executive MBAs.
Deep End Fitness incorporates functional exercises that you might do in the weight room or even a
swim workout but with a unique spin on them. In the gym you lift weights. With Deep End Fitness
you do it underwater! In a swim workout you'll swim freestyle to the other end of the pool,
but with Deep End Fitness you'll swim underwater and then hop out and do squats!
Deep End Fitness uses proven training techniques to help athletes of all levels
boost their mental and physical capabilities all while building a team environment.
This training methodology has trained some of the top athletes worldwide including olympic swimmers,
UFC fighters, pro surfers and NFL players. There are over 300 athletes committed in the program
and 52 certified instructors and it's growing. We started out of the water with a circle of trust
where everyone introduces themselves their background and their goals for the day. Then
we ran through a few breathing exercises to expand our lungs and increase our
diaphragmatic flexibility. We finished up our warm-up with hypoxic burpee ladders
and then we were off to the pool to start the workout. As a first-timer I joined a few
others for a general fitness assessment before beginning the full workout, but let me tell you
this this wasn't the ordinary fitness test. We started with 10 minutes of treading water
while our instructor Don Tran shared the Deep End Fitness FREE methodology: focus, relaxation,
economy of motion, and efficient breathing. We then did two lengths underwater with rests
in between each length, two lengths of side stroke holding a diving brick above the water
and finished our assessment with something special and probably my favorite part of
the entire experience. We had to grab our goggles off the bottom of the pool.
Doesn't sound too difficult right? The only catch is that you have to do it with your hands behind
your back! Just exhale and sink to the bottom, grab the goggles with your mouth and push off
with your feet! This was a thrill, let me know what you think in the comments and while you're
down there make sure to like this video and subscribe if you're not already. The goal of
this drill is to learn how to be comfortable in an uncomfortable situation: No goggles, no
hands and opening your mouth underwater under the pressure in the deep end of the pool sounds like
a disaster waiting to happen and that's the point. Focus on the task at hand and try to remain calm.
We're here with Don Tran one of the Co-founders of Deep End Fitness and Underwater Torpedo League.
Thanks for having me out this is really fun, uh tell us in your own words what is Deep End
Fitness? Uh Deep End Fitness is just really a water conference builder program that really
maximizes the functional fitness side. As you can see some of the athletes doing push-ups on
the side squats to the side before the wires still work out to really push that mental capacity when
they're under water that directly translates into the underwater torpedo league game that
you guys also see here going on right now. Now as a swimmer obviously going back and forth in
the pool and all of a sudden I'm underwater no goggles I'm looking for something I'm using my
teeth to like grab and like what I guess what is that teaching you what's the goal? Yeah so for the
the bob itself um and the master trait was really not to test like hey I lost my goggles I gotta go
find them it's really to put you in a little bit more uncomfortable situation. Number one
you're controlling your voice level by letting that oxygen on your lungs so you already are
like a little bit depleted of your oxygen level as well as opening your mouth underwater just
allows people to be more comfortable in an uncomfortable situation getting underwater and
we need that when we're training in this kind of fashion. Yeah whether they're playing the
sport or doing these underwater yep so it's gonna be it's in southern south california
we just launched a pool in miami so the miami here is fighting up texas hawaii las vegas bay area
coming to a pool near
so the first part of the set we're gonna go 25 swim followed by 10 push-ups out of the water
and we're gonna go with 25 underwater swim followed by 10 squats and we're gonna do
that set through five rounds through that's the first set group let's get it
the workout was a lot of fun and definitely something different than lifting weights or
just swimming on my own at the end of the workout we played a friendly game of underwater torpedo
now this is a gladiator sport underwater torpedo league also referred to as the utl is an
underwater sport that was founded by these marine special forces water safety survival instructors
it has been an underground sport within the military for over a decade and was officially
launched to the public in southern california in 2018 the sport was created as an aquatic
training tool to build water confidence teaching people how to handle discomfort
and control stress and anxiety while accomplishing a very specific task these lessons translate well
both in and out of the water the goal of the game is to move the torpedo underwater and
score a goal without committing a foul each game consists of three matches the team that reaches
five points first wins the match and the team that wins two out of the three matches wins the
game the rules are minimalists in nature because the water keeps the game honest
bringing the torpedo to the surface results in a penalty drop for the opposing team
players can't rip off goggles or pull the opponent's clothing and finns are prohibited
the underwater torpedo league hopes to be added to the olympics as a demonstration sport in 2024
and as a competition sport in 2028 and they're well on their way i just finished my first deep
end fitness workout i'm here in irvine california it was absolutely a blast i learned a lot pushing
myself both physically mentally really focusing on breath control i really loved you know every
moment of it from pushing the torpedo to grabbing my goggles on the bottom of the pool with my teeth
or you know walking with the dumbbells on the bottom of the pool all that was really
awesome to really flex not only your your physical attributes but also mentally engaged if you want
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