Exposed!! Kody Brown’s “medical & dietary restrictions” on Special Forces also bag full of meds
Sister Wives star Kody Brown revealed his surprising tactic to not make the Directing Staff (DS) instructors “push” him too much on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.
“The experience was interesting [and] there’s not a dull moment, even when you’re sleeping, you’re just worried you’re gonna get woken up in the middle of the night and dragged out into a pool of cold water in the dry desert,” Brown, 56, told Us Weekly about filming the show in an interview published on Saturday, September 13. “My teeth chattered.”
Brown went on to explain that the DS instructors would “sort of” haze the recruits. “I don’t even know what they call the punishment,” he continued. “We’re standing and I’ve been in this water, and I started to shiver. I don’t want the DS [to see] that. I don’t want them seeing any signs of weakness because they’ll play on that.”
On the show, the DS leaders are former military special forces operators who lead participants through several challenges.
TheTLC star shared that he came up with a tactic for making sure he wasn’t pushed to his physical limits, explaining that he would fake-wheeze to throw off the DS instructors.
“When we had been just run ragged, [I was] wheezing, and it was a little bit fake,” he said. “I figured if they thought I was really working hard, they wouldn’t try to push me more, and I might need some energy for later. So, I’m sitting there doing press-ups, and I’m, like, wheezing.”
He continued, “I knew that my limits physically were never reached. I had more to give physically.”
Despite faking his wheezing, Brown insisted that not all of his physical reactions on the show were fake.
“There was one time when my muscles gave out,” he said. “We were supposed to be swinging across monkey bars, and I had sand on my hands, and I couldn’t cup the monkey bars. I just didn’t have the strength anymore to do it.”
Brown admited to struggling with the obstacle course, and he noted that fellow recruits Eric Decker, Andrew East and Mark Estes all managed to make the challenge look easy.
“They all had the strength to do it, and I had lost my hand strength,” he said. “I was weaker than them. I just had enduring fortitude. It’s all just some endurance.”
Also during the interview, Brown teased that the DS team “clobbered” him in an “emotional, mental place.”
“I was so ashamed because I just made huge mistakes in leadership,” he said while reflecting on a physical challenge with Olympian Shawn Johnson East. “It was all just training, [but] it was embarrassing and sad because, in reality, if that would have been a combat situation, both of us might have been dead.”
Season 4 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test premieres on Fox on Thursday, September 25, at 9 p.m. ET.
