Is David Goggins legit?

a legit clown

I bet he is as legit as Nick Bare.

The 100lb weight loss story doesn’t make sense to me so everything after that seems like a grift so I’m skeptical.

no, the guy needs therapy. he's obviously a very angry man.

Legit? Or god? All his achievements are proven (8x 100 milers in 8 weeks etc)

He is just a talker these days.

There’s plenty to criticize about Goggins, but he included pictures in his book.
He was coping with trauma with self destructive behavior (overeating, drinking…etc) then switched to coping by wrecking himself. He’s happy with it. I think there are better ways to deal with it, but if it works for him, why should any of us care.

Amazing athlete. Incredible drive. Outstanding ability to push beyond. Very much tangled up inside. Absolutely not a gunfighter.

The lazy worship him, the disciplined just kind of laugh at him. He makes it sound like being disciplined is some kind of mythical battle between you and your mind, but take any elite from any sport and they all work harder than Goggins while being way more successful and consistent. They don't run until they get rhabdo just to prove to themselves that they're hard - they have actual commitments that require consistency.

Low life attention seeking narcissist who abandoned his kids. Also slow af. Orthopedic surgeons stay in business from his followers

Some history revision. Some versions of his story has him running a 100 miler while super overweight with no training. There was an interview article on him right after that race that said he was 190 lbs, had a photo of him looking lean, and he said he'd been running twice a day that year and had done several runs over 26 miles.

He has entered real races and done real stuff, so he's not a phony, but he and/or his fans tend to puff him up a bit beyond what's real.

I don’t know when overtraining became a thing, I am just grateful I didn’t ever know about it when I was young. When I was coming up, busting your ass is just what you did to make up ground when you lacked talent and natural ability. All I knew was that there were 24 hours in a day and for me to level the playing field, it required me to push myself every single day of my life.
On the days I felt tired, I found different ways to push myself. There were several days the body didn’t want to function or do what what was required so I found things I could do to still get better.
Sometimes you have to bump up against science to get to where you want to go.
Like I always say, there are levels to this ****. I know a guy who ran 70 miles each day for 40 days. If you slowly allow your body to adapt to the workload, your body will become a well-oiled machine capable of doing things you once thought were impossible.
For a lot of you out here, I know this hurts your ****ing ears. You will say “don’t listen to this guy, he is going to injure you,” “he is going to push you to overtrain.” This is the exact kind of talk that keeps people from finding out what is truly possible.
Perfect example- this summer, I worked with a group of 60 people, 90% of whom didn’t even run, some hadn’t run in years. I told people that I was going to run a marathon and extended the invitation to anyone who wanted to join me. Just 4 weeks later all but a few people did it and the pride they felt afterwards was hard to put into words. There was no training block or program, people just signed up and were willing to try. And every single one that signed up, completed it.
Half of us can’t do because we don’t believe we can do! Mindset is a mother****er

Stay hard. You don't know me son.

He’s faster and more fit than 80% of this board. Just look how hard the comments above this are projecting

I think the version he sticks to is that he did it while a relatively (190 probably about right) heavy guy after leaving the SEALs. At that point he was fit and he does claim to have run at least a 20 miler before that race. In terms of ultrarunning he had zero experience, but he definitely had run a lot prior. This is also several years after his 100lb weight loss story.

I agree with other commenters in this thread that his work rate is nothing particularly unheard of; there are many people who run and lift with intensity and very consistently every day. Many pro athletes absolutely do commit themselves more. I don’t think he is a grifter, but he’s obviously imperfect and may be prone to exaggeration (something we have all done about a few runs before, let’s be real) and clearly has some issues. I think someone pushing the masses to increase their self-discipline (as he does) is very likely a net positive for society, and I’m glad he took a terrible childhood situation and turned it into something better.

I listened to a long conversation with him on a podcast. Dude seriously needs therapy.

I never knew Goggins met Gerry Lindgren. How come no one ever mentioned his training came from an athletes who made Kiptum look casual(not gonna talk about his lying)?

80%? More like 95 with how much posting some of these people dish out around the clock.

We don't know him son.