Fitness Records or Goals

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:16:22 -0400

Are you looking to break any type of fitness records such as most pushups in a minute?
Do you have specific fitness goals such as a certain amount of weight in the Snatch or Clean and Jerk?

Response by SGT Kevin Adams made Jun 8 at 2014 11:10 PM

SGT Kevin Adams — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:10:32 -0400

I've been trying to break 100 sit ups in 2 mins for most of my career my max so far is 97 so I'm close...

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 13 at 2014 7:09 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:09:24 -0400

I have never been a 300 PT stud, nor will I ever be, but I really do enjoy doing PT. After discovering CrossFit I was motivated to climb the rope to the top of the gym. It took me almost a month but I was finally able to make it.

Response by CPT Zachary Brooks made Jun 18 at 2014 9:47 AM

CPT Zachary Brooks — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:47:42 -0400

I am working my way up with bodyweight exercises and attempting to acheive high levels of fitness. The end goals:

Straight body lever rows
One handed chin ups
One handed push ups
One handed handstand push ups
Stand to stand bridges
One handed straight leg V-raises
Lever planks
Horizontal flags

I've already made some substantial accomplishments and plan to continue to advance my fitness and my body as I experiment. One of the interesting discoveries I have found (and love) is wall planks and I am currently working on doing them with one leg and one arm raised.

Response by SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 19 at 2014 8:17 PM

SGT(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:17:35 -0400

I am training to improve my APFT score. I am also training for my first marathon, which is in November. The goal for the marathon is to not die.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 1 at 2014 11:08 AM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:08:14 -0400

SGT Private RallyPoint Member Good topic for me. I'm glad to see the Army go to Crossfit and other avenues of PT/exercise rather then the old daily dozen as we called and the old warm up exercises, followed by 2 min of pushups, 2 minutes of situps and then, "OK, now we're gonna run!"

I ran into several obstacles and nay sayers as a First Sergeant (Ft. Bragg), Being a fitness nut master fitness trainer and personal fitness trainer, I knew there was much more that could be done to improve Soldiers individual fitness and also the goal I had set for the unit, being a Unit PT average of 280 and up. When I informed by Bn Cdr and CSM what I was going to do and they would only see us at Bn. Run PT sessions for the next 3 months, they thought I was crazy. Co. Cdr had his doubts but said, "Let's go for it, we'll never know till we try.

At the onset and after explaining our intent to the unit and urged them all to give it their best for 90 days, we then did a unit diagnostic test, Unit PT average was 257. It would not have been that high but I had quite a few studs (working on their own of course) who always maxed. I was no stud, but I was a 300 PT guy also at that time (and at the present, unless there is a curve score for age 60, we'll not talk about that). Anyway, off we went, we incorporated many different aspects of training that included weights, different styles of running, weight resistance and partner resistance, body weight excercises for agility etc. Each month we did another diagnostic ..wiht slight overall improvement. To speed the story up, at the end of the 3 months the unit average climbed to 283. Did we maintain it, not indefinitely...PCS's in and out, Studs come and go, out of shape folks coming in. But we held between 274-285 for 12 months.

The CSM thought it take off and be picked up by the other units, but it didn't. They felt it was too much effort and some unit leaders didn't like the idea of platoons out doing different things at the same time and the unit being scattered.

Which has always led me to say, units with low PTs scores is not and individual failure, nor a lack of desire. It's a leadership challange, that many are not willing to take on. We all know, that Soldiers who score 300 on PTs were achieving this success just by doing unit PT every morning!.

Enjoyed reading everyone's input to this one. Thank You.

Response by 1LT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2014 10:06 PM

1LT Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 22:06:18 -0400

I gotta tell you SGT Private RallyPoint Member since I started lifting my goal was to bench my body weight, which is 145 lbs. This was about 2-3 years ago and it took until last month when I was finally able to do it. There were a few setbacks but that moment that I finally did it was worth all the work it took. Now, I just want to keep going forward with the benchpress and any other workouts that I do. I also want to start doing more Tough Mudders and Spartan Races.