MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC My name is Scott Tello. I'm currently a Naval Special Warfare instructor training partner nations in the River Reen small boat maritime operations. MUSIC This is going to be my sixth time competing at the highest level of the sport of CrossFit and in 2020 I qualified for the first time to actually compete at the CrossFit Games. Ever since then I've kind of come up short a little bit on semi-final so this is the hurdle to get over. It's something to keep working towards, never stop training, never stop trying to reach your goal and I'm not going to until I get it and I know I can. I want to prove to myself that I can do it and I also want to prove to others as in my sons that with hard work and dedication the proper mindset and drive that anything is achievable. In 2016 I went on eight appointment and you know there's some downtime so I set myself a goal to kind of keep myself motivated throughout the six to eight months that I was there and I wanted to really get in really good shape. And so I started following some high intensity fitness regiments and I found that competitive drive which was just another way to keep growing. To be a Swig you know I have to train to be an elite CrossFit athlete. My impressions when I first came to Swig Training I was like what did I get myself into and then as the days continued on I fell into routine. I started making teammates and working together and that definitely helped allow myself to push through all the challenging aspects of Swig School and ultimately graduate and complete in the goal. Once I got to the teams I felt like the training was very necessary. The amount of weight that we're having to throw around and handle with all the heavy weapons and the ammunition and the high-paced operations that we trained to and it definitely allowed my body to keep up with the sustainability of training and operations on the water. If you're in the CrossFit community and you're interested in thinking about joining a Naval Special Warfare I would definitely focus on running and swimming and then getting well at moving your body weight, doing pull-ups, push-ups, holding loads about anywhere between 75% of your body weight to 1.5 times your body weight and being able to just move with some time under tension for an extended period of time. And then swimming definitely focused on swimming with fins and without fins and practicing that combat side-sort technique. My Swig communities they're like family to me so they support me in everything and they definitely help me get to this level because they really want to see me excel and succeed at this.