We don’t soften selection.

We sharpen preparation.

evidence based selection prep built by special operations professionals

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Prepare for Selection. Train With Direction.

Clinical assessment. Performance coaching. Green Beret operational experience.

We identify what’s holding you back, build training around your needs, and adjust as you respond. Your preparation gets ongoing attention from Dr. Sean Burkhardt and Dr. David Walton.

Working Hard. Still Not Progressing?

Run times won’t improve. Ruck pace falls apart. Strength gains aren’t carrying into performance. Fatigue keeps building.

Adding more work without understanding the problem can leave you further behind.

Pain Can Interrupt the Entire Plan

Shin splints. Knee pain. Achilles and foot problems. Back pain. Strains, sprains, and skin breakdown under a ruck.

These problems can disrupt preparation and performance during Selection. They deserve attention before you keep adding mileage, weight, or intensity.

This Is Where Coaching Matters

We examine your performance, movement, training load, and recovery to establish what needs attention first.

Then we coach the response—adjusting training, tracking progress, and addressing setbacks as they arise. You learn how to recognize fatigue, make sound training decisions, and communicate when something changes.

The goal is consistent preparation that improves performance. Every training decision should serve that goal.

SEE HOW COACHING WORKS

  • Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (Runner’s Knee)

  • Achilles Tendinopathy

  • Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (Shin Splints)

  • IT Band Syndrome

  • Plantar Fasciitis

  • Low Back Pain

  • Lumbar Disc Irritation

  • Hip Flexor Strains

  • Hamstring Strains

  • Ankle Sprains

  • Shoulder Overuse Injuries

  • Ruck-Induced Foot Blisters and Skin Breakdown

Selection doesn’t create weaknesses

it exposes them.

These injuries don’t come out of nowhere. They are usually the predictable result of movement limitations, training errors, load-management mistakes, poor recovery, or inadequate preparation.

the coaches

Dr. Sean Burkhardt

Sports Chiropractic Physician | Fellow in Functional Neurology | Fellow in Operational Medicine (TCCC) | Functional Medicine Clinician | NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Tactical Strength & Conditioning Facilitator (TSAC-F), and Certified Special Population Specialist (CSPS) | NASM Performance Enhancement & Corrective Exercise Specialist

Dr. david walton

Green Beret | SFAS SME | Land Nav Guru | Author

Operational experience from someone who’s been through it.

Performance science from someone who knows how to prepare for it.

You don’t get one or the other.
You get both.

Selection exposes more than physical weakness. It exposes how you think, recover, adapt, and perform under stress.

We train both the body and the operator behind it.

Know Your Starting Point Before Selection Finds It For You.