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VIDEO: VCU Rams go through SEAL Team training

Christopher Hanewinckel / USA Today Sports

Well, one thing's for certain: very few teams will be able to match the VCU Rams when it comes to intensity of training this upcoming season.

Recently, the Rams undertook SEAL Team training, which you can check out in all its painful-just-from-watching glory:

SEAL Team training is often used as a sort of team-building activity, both at the corporate and athletic level, and the Rams are hoping the lessons learned can carry over to the basketball season.

"Communication, leadership, team-building" head coach Shaka Smart said of the benefits. "They always hit us with some form of adversity, or multiple forms of adversity. It's good for our guys, because that's what we're going to face in games, particularly on the road and against great teams."

The SEa, Air and Land Teams make up the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force ("Navy SEALs") and are viewed as some of the most physically fit units in all of the military. A Navy SEAL training pipeline typically includes four different stages spanning more than 60 weeks, followed by 18 months of pre-deployment training.

That sounds daunting, but for an afternoon as a team? Sure.

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