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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?
Do you have specific fitness goals such as a certain amount of weight in the Snatch or Clean and Jerk?
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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.
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I guess I can give an update on the training. My long run yesterday was 14 miles, which is the longest I have ever run in my life. I am now running more than 20 miles a week and finished August with 100 miles. Pace is still pretty slow but time is not really the goal for this marathon.
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SGT(P) (Join to see) Wish you success in your Marathon training and for achieving your first 14 mile accomplishment. Out of curiosity, what, if any supplements and/or nutrients are you using? Back in my day, it was water and gator aid! We didn't have the benefit of GNC back in my early days in the Army. I wouldn't be concerned with my pace, getting to the finish line is the Goal and being able to walk away afterwards. I've ran several half-marathons , but never had the desire to go the full 24+ you're working too. I'll be pulling for you....Good luck. Please keep us posted and be sure someone gets your pic crossing the finish line....as you may never want to do it again!
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Thank you for the well wishes 1SG Mcpherson. I have been experimenting with some different nutrients. I sweat a lot and lose sodium pretty quickly. This last run I had a couple 8 ounce bottles of gatorade. I also had two packets of Clif Gel. This combination seems to work well.
I never really had the desire to run a marathon until this past January. Someone in my unit talked me into running a half marathon in 2011. I really enjoyed the half. Even after that I never really thought about running a marathon. For some reason in January I decided that I wanted to attempt a marathon. My unit has three marathoners all of whom have been on the National Guard's national marathon team at some point in time. The ultimate goal is to run with Kentucky's National Guard Marathon team at the Lincoln Marathon next year.
I never really had the desire to run a marathon until this past January. Someone in my unit talked me into running a half marathon in 2011. I really enjoyed the half. Even after that I never really thought about running a marathon. For some reason in January I decided that I wanted to attempt a marathon. My unit has three marathoners all of whom have been on the National Guard's national marathon team at some point in time. The ultimate goal is to run with Kentucky's National Guard Marathon team at the Lincoln Marathon next year.
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Creatine can be great for athletic performance, as long as you ALWAYS have access to water and you're not a NON-responder.
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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.
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.
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CPT Zachary Brooks
Why do you find the one arm and leg raised to be funny? It looks silly, but its effective.
I have already perfected it on a regular plank and am now trying to do it on a wall plank, which is proving to be difficult.
I have already perfected it on a regular plank and am now trying to do it on a wall plank, which is proving to be difficult.
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SGT (Join to see)
It's funny to watch those with little balance. The wall plank look pretty difficult. "Challenge accepted."
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CPT Zachary Brooks
I can do a one legged wall plank and hold it for 30 seconds on each side so far. Good luck.
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I added the [two-legged] wall plank in a workout program while on Christmas leave as a finisher. It hurt. I got up to 30 seconds. I think I'll wait until I'm at the 4 minute mark before trying the next level. Thanks again for the new move.
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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.
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SGT Spratley, I don't have access to a rope in my current duty. Before I left I could get to the top of a 30 foot rope using my legs and about halfway up using my arms only. I suck, I know.
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I'm going to attempt to climb the 30 foot rope without legs simply because you said you suck. Maybe we both suck. Maybe we'd just be normal. Maybe "normal" sucks.
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This one guy at my box would grab a rope in each hand and Donky Kong up to the top. The 1SG told him he had to stop doing that during the open WOD because he was dicouraging the new guys. In my opinion that guy sucks.
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I gotta tell you SGT (Join to see) 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.
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Weekly rucking is great, though not executed in enough organizations. Sometimes, after leading ruck marches, my squad would do exercises wearing the IOTV. Have fun and good luck with your progress. As of right now, you're the only one keeping RallyPoint up to date on fitness goals progression.
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Sounds good. Also the female record for pushups in the APFT here is 82 so I'm gonna shoot to break that. Still have 15 weeks left so we'll see what happens there.
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SGT (Join to see) 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.
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.
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1SG, let me be the first to say thank you for your story and committment to Soldiers' fitness.
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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...
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When I was looking to improve my APFT Situp score, I'd do incline situps, but without letting my back touch the bench, to keep muscle tension on my abs and quads throughout the exercise.
http://exrx.net/WeightExercises/RectusAbdominis/BWInclineSitUp.html
http://exrx.net/WeightExercises/RectusAbdominis/BWInclineSitUp.html
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MSG(P) Michael Warrick
Both. You must keep a record so you know where you are at and have a goal to improve yourself short term and long term.
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Agreed and true. I'm the guy that writes notes down after every set on my workout plan. Also, I only change my workout monthly, while changing priorities and goals of my workouts and exercises periodically.
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