David Goggins Research Paper

Ayden Murphy

Ms. Swanson

Communication and Research

15 February 2024

David Goggins - Who is David Goggins? David Goggins is an inspiration to people around the world because of his mindset. He defied the odds of becoming a Navy seal by being able to swim and not be able to float. David Goggins's life was filled with physical abuse and mental well-being checks that helped him become a better person. Throughout David’s life, he was told he would be a failure and would not amount to anything in life by the people in his life. But that would not be the case in David Goggin's story. Early Life David Goggins lived in Buffalo, New York in 1981. Most of the neighbors thought of the Goggins family as a so-called happy family. They mainly saw the …show more content…
David was working the graveyard shift from 11 pm to 7 am. At 19 years old, David weighed 175 pounds and enlisted in the army. His dream wasn’t to join the Pararescue Unit. 4 years later, David was discharged from the military and weighed around 300 pounds. When David was first discharged from the Military, he picked up a local job as security at St. Vincent’s Hospital for minimum wage and cleared 700 bucks a month. After months of working minimum wage jobs, David called up one of the recruiters for the navy. The recruiter told David that he was overweight for the military at 297 pounds and had to cut down 106 pounds in 3 months and score a 50 on ASVAB to join the Navy. From now on, David’s typical day would look like this, David would wake up at 4:30 in the morning, eat a banana and hit the ASVAB books. By 5 in the morning David would take the book to his stationary bike for 2 hours, remembering the shape of David’s body was a mess he couldn’t run multiple miles yet. After David was done with the stationary bike he would drive to Carmel High School and jump into the pool for a 2-hour swim, right after David’s swim he would do a circuit workout that included bench press, incline press, and a lot of leg workouts. On page 94 of Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins, it says, “Ten days later I was 250, light enough to begin doing push-ups, pull-ups …show more content…
David was down to 214 and was able to run 6 miles a day and bike 26 miles. The next day David went into the military recruiter's office and took the test like usual. After David took the test he went to the recruiter's desk to see what he got, David got a 50 and was able to pass and go into BUDs training for the Marines. After the ASVAB David waited 2 weeks till BUD training started. David had to meet with a doctor to pass a physical who told David he had a sick cell trait and that he could at any point go into cardiac arrest. David did not stop once he heard about it, he kept pushing through. Once BUD's training started most of the running was easy for David, once the swimming portion started, for many swimming was easy for many but for David swimming was a nightmare. David had little to no buoyancy, which meant he could not float on water. To make matters worse, David could swim for his life. He went to his local Barnes and Noble and got a How to Swim for Dummies. One of the many things David had to go through was surf torture. Which is when you and your crew are brought out to the ocean, you lay down and have the waves crashing on you and you can not get up til your instructor tells you otherwise. One of David’s favorite things about BUDs training was running boats and logs down the beach with your crew. “We didn’t just lift the boats overhead and set it down hard, we threw it up, caught it

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