lbs. boxer, both members of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program
demonstrate their fighting prowess to a group of students from the Financial
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The Army's world class Soldier-athletes visited Fort Jackson July 11-13 as part of the Total Soldier Enhancement Training program aimed at helping leaders increase mental and physical readiness of the force.
The WCAP defines the intent of TSET as to "increase readiness and resilience of Army units through facilitated, team-based, and learner-centric training events that expose Soldiers to mental skills training that sets the conditions for more consistent and high levels of performance."
"The Chief of Staff of the Army's number one priority is to support readiness," said 1st Sgt. Jennifer Williams, the WCAP's first sergeant. "If we can make Soldiers more resilient to increase combat readiness and support combatant commanders that is our duty -- our responsibility.
TSET leverages the Soldier-athletes' knowledge of performance-based training and nutrition to increase readiness and resilience through customized performance enhancement skills training.
Olympic-caliber Soldier-athletes put Soldiers through intense training in various sports like boxing, Tae Kwon Do, wrestling, and track.
"It's all about readiness," said Maj. Jon Anderson, a world class Greco Roman wrestler, to a group of Soldiers from the Finance Management Basic Officer Leader Course 003-17. "We're focusing on pushing ourselves physically, but we're also going to push ourselves mentally …"
The training was difficult because "the difference between the average and above average is often in the mind," Anderson added.
For one officer the training was difficult yet worthwhile.
Second Lt. Chloe Overkamp, a student in the FMBOLC "It's really challenging; I haven't done a workout like this in a very long time" during a break from boxing drills.
She found it "really crazy" that the Soldier-athletes were here.
"I had no idea there would be here while I was here, so it's really cool," said Overkamp, who was commissioned in May.
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