Posted on Jun 13, 2020
What can I do to pass tape one more time before shipping ?
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I’m going to try and be brief! I signed back in November at 280 and I’m 6’5 but for some reason they keep telling me I’m 6’4 , but my bmi was 22% and I was good to go !! Fast forward to now , a month before shipping. I’ve been running ! Running ! And running ! To the point where I lost the weight in my neck, I have a very large neck or once had a very large neck about at 18.5inches now it’s around 17 inches . That was the last time I was in my recruiters office which was last week to get a update. now my waist is now a 42 putting my bmi at 25% since now my neck is at 17 inches. I’ve dreaded running at first but now I actually like because it helps me lose weight but now the thing that kept me on top of weight gain is now becoming dangerous due to the loss in weight in my neck. Is there Any thing I can do to just target my waist??? I’m tryning to get that at least to a 39 or a 40 the minimum would be a 40 ! Please any tips would help I’m less than a month out and I just really want to be a soldier.
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No news is good news I'm assuming. I imagine right about now you are basking in the glory that is active duty having had the always looked forward to Sunday morning breakfast with time to actually eat it, Church then a lesiurely afternoon discussing life philosophy with the smells of shoe polish and starch wafting through the air.
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tape isn't always the best way to determine BMI when I was would go to the weight room after PT. I was often considered general guidelines but it was accepted that I would probably have to lose muscle mass to make it their were about 5 guys in the company with the same issue one was an LT that played football for GA another was a marathoner
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Ah, welcome to the ridiculous height and weight tape standards. It is way too easy to lose weight and go backwards on the tape allowances. If you have a ship date, and are making progress, then you are going to ship out. They will get you where you need to be in basic training.
I was never weighed taped before shipping out to basic training FYI, just at the initial physical.
I was never weighed taped before shipping out to basic training FYI, just at the initial physical.
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What is your weight now? One of the problems with exercise is you can increase muscle that is denser than fat. I would recommend a good nutrition/ trainer. I would also recommend that look at this as a life time change.
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Sorry, I can honestly say I would not even waste my time if you are always going to be on the razors edge of the standards. The losses that you experience in delayed or never achieving advancement as well as the pay that accompanies these then never being able to have awards processed or awarded while you are not within standards is harmful both mentally and physically. Not to mention the time and effort expended that you put forth always trying to find some way to somehow make standards is just something you don’t want to experience.
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I’m sorry, that’s just crap advice. “Meeting the standard sucks so just quit now”
PV2 David Minnicks
SFC Thomas Foreman My comment is not that at all it is simply to cut your losses if you are one of the unfortunate ones who is at the point where trying to meet standard will constantly have you in a position where you spend every waking moment trying the whole time you won’t advance in rank you ca
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SPC Leland Keller
I was in a ftu unit at Ft Lost In The Woods back in 1988 and fought my way into basic training. I then spent the next three year eight months twelve days fighting my weight weight by not eating for days mind you I was an army engineer working on projects plus doing company PT ( PU,SU run 5 miles in the hills) and doing after hours pt at times. Point is I fought to stay in even though I was harassed by by chain of command day and night because I was a single soldier. I even had the Capt. strain to look at my lunch plate to see what was on it in front of the Colonel so I waled over to show him that there was no fast food on it. Long story short I got out on my terms because after the First Gulf War the army was downsizing and anyone who had three years in could get out early so I did. I wish I had access to information back then to help me fight the tape but saddly I still fight the battle of the bulge. The thing is don't give up, fight on and never surrender and keep mentaly strong also
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there are a variety of of exercises to target waist... leg lifts.... crunches, Iron staff techniques... take a 30 lb six foot iron rod and put on you shoulders like you are doing squats but transit between hard bow stance and square horse stance.... Speed bag and reflex bag combinations focusing on hip rotation mechanism to generate power, Chinese swing exercises, front snap thrust kick drills, do the punching combos with gallon jugs full of water.... et cet
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