Pro Athletes vs. SAS Soldiers... What's the Difference? #military #nzarmy #nzsport

The biggest, clearest difference between special forces soldiers around the world and high performance athletes is essentially they perform in the best conditions. They have all the hydration, drinks, the food, the preparation, the massages, the recovery. We have to operate in the worst conditions. Food and sleep deprived. It's always like that, you know on operations. If you think it isn't, it's exactly what it's like all the time. When you get up in the middle of the night, you've got to perform when you're sleeping. Food deprived, IDing friend from foe, precision shooting, correct information, going left rather than going right and leading your teams as well. That's the biggest thing. Again, this is why selection is perfectly designed for that. And that's the person we're getting. The person that is completely destroyed but can still retain information, still do the job, navigate from point to point, high visibility areas, low visibility areas and just keep going.