Visualization means seeing yourself accomplishing your goals, Goggins said. 'I was, to me, on the brink of death,' Goggins recently told Impact Theory's Tom Bilyeu.īut then Goggins remembered the two mental strategies he's used throughout his Navy SEAL training, not to mention every subsequent test of his physical and mental toughness: visualization and self-talk. He had shin splints so bad that he wrapped his ankles in compression tape just to stave off the agony.Īs he recalls now, it was the worst pain he'd ever been in. It was his first ultra-marathon.īy the time his kidneys had failed around the 70-mile mark, he had broken all the small bones in his feet and suffered dual stress fractures in his lower legs. Goggins, a 240-pound Navy SEAL, had entered the San Diego race to raise money for charity. (David Goggins, pictured, also went through Army Ranger School and competed the Ironman World Championships.Marion Doss/Flickr)ĭavid Goggins had run 70 miles of his 100-mile race when he began to pee blood.

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