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P.S. I love you Zhohar Good luck with the army.

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SharinganTH1422

Firstly, just wanna say I have no affiliations with the army or anything like that, so your better off with probably some of the other advice given here, but I like to keep fit, and you never know when you'll need it, especially in certain unsafe places in real life. Also just wanna say, good luck with the army, hope this works out, and I do admire guys like you who want to do this and really do what they can to pursue it.

You have a lot of info on running here which is good, and it's also good to set yourself above the minimum criteria, I did the same for myself before I went to a boxing place that all my friends had been going to, I wanted to prepare, and they said that I'd need to be able to do good running ability, which meant I'd have stamina and a good, solid heart, and also low body fat, (which wasn't much of a problem, because I play football (soccer) a lot), with also decent upper body strength, and the ability to be nimbleness and agility.

I was actually on a school break at the time so I basically trained 6 hours a day for 2 weeks straight with 4 rest days, although I'd been training decently before that for a while.

Running:

Since I'd been doing running since I was pretty young, I didn't have much of a problem, and the fact that you can already run decent is good. I didn't have a purpose (a set time like you) but I'd say try something like a treadmill for this. I personally prefer sprinting it down a football pitch, but to get a particular time, I think you need more controlled running, where it can tell you the distance you've traveled and stuff. I don't feel like I can naturally run on them, and I'm always afraid something like this might happen. if you can actually run somewhere where you know exactly what distance you're travelling, like a track or something, and you got a stopwatch, whtn fine.

Basically, first you want to kind of go flat out, and try and hit that distance as quick as possible (2.4 KM in 13 minutes). See how long it takes you to hit that mark.

If you get it, great. Because you've been running flat-out, take a rest for 2 days, then come back and do it the day after. Have this formula of rest, hit time, rest, hit time, for about 2 weeks, but shorten break to 1 day, and hopefully you should be doing that time consistently, and with much less hassle.

If you don't hit the time, no worries. Do the same as in the above paragraph, take a rest, and try and hit the time. When you get the time, keep hitting it for 2 weeks straight (remember the break in between everyday. If you're feeling tired on a day when you're meant to get back to it, don't go back and push, but don't completely rest either. do some stretches for your legs and take a very short jog, just to keep your body in non-lazy mode.)

Keep doing this and you should be good for the time, I expect that even if you don't hit that time first time, it shouldn't take you long to get there.

Now you've been improving speed, but long-running hasn't been on the agenda, but for something like the army, you need stamina as well.

Try and buy a bleep test tape and try and find a place where you can do it, a decent sized garden should work (if you can't do this, don't look at this paragraph). Whatever you get first time, you have to improve by a whole number. Do it, day with a break in between, do it, break in between, etc. until you get one whole number better, e.g., if you start off 8.9, get to 9.9.

If you can' get this thing going, which most people including myself, can't, then try this. You have 6KM in 30 minutes, right? Well, to improve stamina...double it. 12KM in an hour. Now, for most people I'd say this is an excessive target to start out with, but you can already run a decent amount in 45 minutes, which shows you can pace yourself and run long distances with good stamina. The thing about about running stamina is not about what time you have immediately, it's about for how long you can run without passing out.

First, try and run for an hour, it doesn't matter about distances for now, so run wherever the wind takes you for an hour, it doesn't have to be a run, a decent paced jog should be fine for a whole hour. This stamina thing will take it out of you, so 3 days break on the first day, with 2 days after that. When you find you can hit the hour, do it for however many weeks that you can until you're not completely maxed out and feel like you can fall over and die. This may take a few weeks, maybe even a month or 2, but stamina has to be built. Keeping those 2 day breaks, with stretches on the break days. If you feel like you can go after 1 day, then got for it, but jogging for an hour solid can really take it out of you for a while.

After you've done this, go for your 6KM in 30 minutes. Again with the same system, try and hit, if you can, keep doing that time with 2 days break in between. If you can't, just keep going for it, with 2 days break in between each try. This is stupidly long I know, but since you didn't write that you were in a rush to join the army, I figured a paced out schedule would do it better than a leg breaking one. Although the breaks are pretty frequent, those are not easy runs, or easy times to make, so you do need those breaks to rest up after pushing yourself, and whereas others like to mix it up, I'm kind of "here's the target, I'll keep going until I reach it" as opposed to others who use schedules that improve their overall stamina and speed. I don't think either is better, but I like to have a definite thing to aim for, and to keep tryna hit it basically, however, I have to admit, since Ferris is much more experienced than myself at this, I'd take his opnion over mine.


Upper body strength:

When I stated my press-ups, I was pretty rubbish. I had a max. of 12, and being an idiot trying to push himself, I did 20 sets of 12 reps. The fact that I threw up made me decide that's a bad idea.

Start off with your maximum, and quite simply, keep doing it every day with one rest day per week. Whenever you feel like you can do one more, just do it. Same with sit-ups.

There are a few other ways to improve press-ups with other exercises. Firstly, pull-ups. However many, even just 1 or 2, are fine when you're starting out, but pull-ups work everything in your upper body, including your abs somehow. Pull-ups, capone everything, do them to improve everything. Also, I'm not sure what the technical terms is, but basically, stand in the middle of 2 grounded and sturdy things that you can put your hands on that are side-by-side. Push yourself to a raised, upright position, with just your arms holding you up, down by your sides. You can either stay up for a long time, or do push up kinda things where you lower and then push up to raise yourself. Certain machines at a local gym can improve your shoulders, chest and back, which is what you mainly need to be good at push-ups, and really to be a strong guy overall, and although biceps and triceps are important, they're way overrated. Do biceps with dumbells to keep them up with the rest of your upper body, and the pull ups should do your tricep enough.

Dumbells should be done with comfortable weights with sets. Low weights and high reps for tone, High weights and low reps for bulk, I do tone, and recommend that as well.

Benching can also improve your press-up ability, but I'm not the biggest fan of weights, or machines, and prefer my resistance training like pull-ups and press-ups. I do use dumbells however to do biceps that can't really be done with resistance, apart from a weird type of press-up that doesn't do the bicep that well.

For your sit-ups, as I said above with the press-ups, just keep doing them, and you can try and look up ways on the internet to improve abs, since everyone wants six-packs these days, and everyone seem to know how to get one . I just do pretty simple crunches, and they do the job well enough.


And grips are grips. Just go to a store (lol, just read this line back..."store"...I'm so damn American ) and buy the hardest one and go work at it every day. I'd say take it to work and do it once there. then do it when you get home as well, maybe just while watching TV or something.


Stupidly long post, definitely got carried away here, sorry about that.

Hope it goes well man.

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DevilDog0811

RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN, i am in the USMC and believe me running will make an incredible difference. Here is something that will help you with the push-ups, while you play video games if you do it a lot, everytime a map is loading or you get a break in between games just drop down and do 10 push-ups, 4 count, and then after a few days of that do 15, and after that do 20, its easy as ****

SharinganTH1422

Ah yes, the "drop everytime you get a spare moment and remember." You may have read my other post on the excercise thread, but I have a friend who's done a lot of martial arts, something like 10 years. He got attacked about a year ago and he had to have a plate in his arm and his head, so he's not training hardly at all right now, but when he was at his peak, just before the incident, he used to do that. You end up doing like 50-60 press-ups a day.

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...If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...