Richard Machowicz is a body-builder and ex-Navy SEAL who is widely known for his unique and challenging muscle building exercising program.  Additionally, he is the author of the exceptional motivational novel: Unleashing The Warrior Within.   As a Navy SEAL Machowicz pushed his body to the limits and learned what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to building muscle tone and living a healthy lifestyle.

Machowicz was interviewed by BodyBuilding.com by Mike Mahler.  This interview contained some excellent details about bodybuilding and about the Navy SEALs.  You can read an excerpt from this interview below:

Mike Mahler: Lets start the interview by discussing your Navy Seal background. What motivated you to want to become a Navy Seal in the first place?

Richard Machowicz : I wanted to prove to myself that there was nothing that I could not do. I was actually setting myself to go into the Special Forces: the Green Berets. Unfortunately, that involved a lot of paper workout and time commitment and I decided to explore other options. Thus, I went to the Navy recruiting office and saw a video about the Seals. It looked really cool and I decided to look into it further.
The more I heard about it, the more I realized that it was considered to be the toughest training on Earth. That got me even more committed and I thought to myself, if I can do this, I can do anything! I was also really interested in doing something to protect my country. I always wanted to be a super hero figure.

Mike Mahler: Having become a Navy Seal and looking back at the experience, is there anything that you could have done to prepare yourself?

Richard Machowicz : Absolutely! Before I went in, I heard that they were going to literally try to kill me there. Thus, I made a commitment to myself that I was either going to make it, or die there. I trained that way in many ways to prepare myself. I was in Great Lakes, Illinois when I went through boot camp. Then I was assigned a job there in the Navy. I started training by running a great deal in these boon docker Navy boots in the snow in the middle of winter. I heard that the training was going to involve being colder than I had ever experienced. Thus, I wanted to learn how to push myself in the cold. For two years getting ready, I never took a hot shower even when it was -86 degrees outside.

Continue reading this interview here.