This question is for Airborne graduates. Are there any good workout routines that you used to increase fitness prior to school?

Run. Run. Run. I went in 2003 as an E7 and Crossfit wasn't as huge a rage as it is now. Try doing sone sort of Crossfit (ie, sets of several exercises)

I had a few weeks over the summer at home (Fort Sam Houston) before heading to Benning for jump school. Temperatures and humidity were higher/hotter in Texas so provided great acclimation for Georgia in July. I ran several times a day in fatigues and boots, which was the Airborne standard in 1985. I ran every hill I could find. Pull ups, dips, leg lifts, etc. with the added weight of boots helped. Benning changed to athletic shoes the class before mine, and I had to go buy some running shoes. The change from boots to running shoes made the runs and other PT events that much easier. I found that Jump School was not the physical challenge that I expected. (The picture is actually from Rigger School in 1992, seven years after I attended Airborne School and three years after Ranger School).

All of the APFT events, but it seems that the flexed arm hangs is what is getting a lot of soldiers that go to jump school.

Running more than 2 miles to build endurance or wind sprints, pullups, pushups, situs and planks will all help with the pt test. Flutter kicks is the smoker workout of choice when you get in trouble there also

Run every chance you get, even on road marches. Max yourself out on the pull-up bars, and increase Abdomen MSE.

i agree with other posts, If you already do good on the APFT you should be good. I was 19 when I did it 30 + years ago. Also, back then you had to take an Airborne PT Test prior to going to the course. Al;so back then everything was done in boots.

Ankle rotations seem to help alot for landing properly. These new parachutes land like a pillow, so you should be good. Lucky for you you don't still use the lawn dart parachutes, haha. You should also do lots of atomic situps.

I was assigned to an SF Bn when I attended. I had the benefit of 1 year at 5200 feet above sea level before going back to sea level. Run, push ups, sit ups and pull ups /chin ups.

If you're worried about your fitness level then you have no business going to airborne scho

Ma'am, airborne is one of the easiest school in the military, if you are a PT stud then you don't have worry about any type of preparation. Just prepare to run a lot slow and fast, pull ups and big big advised, don't worry about ranks and just listen to SGT AIRBORNE AND very awesome airborne day