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My resolution is to get back into a truly superior shape to apply for the Para's before my 20th birthday in June!

 

I wanna do: 1.5 Miles in 8 Mins, 60 Press Ups in 2 Mins, 50 Sit Ups in 2 Mins & 20 Upper Body heaves (all right after the other for maximum awesome would be beyond belief and while it may be genuinely unobtainable for the time frame I want it would have been nice to obtain)

 

Reality is: I can do 5k in 30 Minutes dead on a +1 incline So it will be tough to do 1.5 in 8 Mins dead up and down Hilly terrain but I Prefer a tough challenge to an easy one. So I'm gonna say Yes in reality it can be done!

 

I can do 12 in 48 Seconds so I feel i'm gonna struggle the most with this. So I may just struggle to meet my personal target!

 

I can do 10 Sit ups and feel I can defo reach this without too much struggle once I find something to weigh my feet down :(

 

I can already do the required 10 so I want to push my training up to doing 20 instead and can see this being the first thing I accomplish =)

 

Obstacles for me are definitely getting stuck in my head while running and telling myself I can't do it

 

Why: for me is because I Decided I wanted to join the Para's at 16 but at the time my Mother wouldn't sign the Parent Release form thingy and said if I waited until I was 17 she would let me join the RAF Regiment Gunners (at the time I was told they have their own parachute guys) but by the time I was 17 I had started treatment to get braces and the RAF Turned me down so now i'm 19 obviously I don't need mother to sign my forms or anything and my braces came out but I don't finish final treatment of Invisalign Braces until sometime June 2014, apparently the Recruitment process can take up to 9 weeks (Thanks Corporal from 3 Scots) so I plan to apply sometime around April/May :D

 

I would elaborate but their are these really fit birds so I'm gonna do what most red blooded men would attempt :D

 

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Besides weighing, try to take tailor measurements of your body. That will help you see where you have put the weight on or if you've put on more muscle (it could be toning with bigger muscles or bigger arms because of more fat).

 

 

I am just doing the waist, I was down from 44 to 36 but I am at 37 for now.

It'll come off.

 

As for the other measurements, due to my penchant for cycling most of my exercise clothes are lycra.  I can see every tiny bit of fat on my body from any angle.

It puts people off their food.

 

Sort a New Work Bench With Rifle mounting also

 

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Oh and buy more glock Varients

 

 

Buy one or self-build?

Look at some photos, decide what you want and how you are going to get/make it.

Set a time limit and let us know the details.

 

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My resolution is to get back into a truly superior shape to apply for the Para's before my 20th birthday in June!<br /><br />I wanna do: 1.5 Miles in 8 Mins, 60 Press Ups in 2 Mins, 50 Sit Ups in 2 Mins & 20 Upper Body heaves (all right after the other for maximum awesome would be beyond belief and while it may be genuinely unobtainable for the time frame I want it would have been nice to obtain)<br /><br />Reality is: I can do 5k in 30 Minutes dead on a +1 incline So it will be tough to do 1.5 in 8 Mins dead up and down Hilly terrain but I Prefer a tough challenge to an easy one. So I'm gonna say Yes in reality it can be done!<br /><br /> I can do 12 in 48 Seconds so I feel i'm gonna struggle the most with this. So I may just struggle to meet my personal target!<br /><br /> I can do 10 Sit ups and feel I can defo reach this without too much struggle once I find something to weigh my feet down :(<br /><br />I can already do the required 10 so I want to push my training up to doing 20 instead and can see this being the first thing I accomplish =)<br /><br />Obstacles for me are definitely getting stuck in my head while running and telling myself I can't do it<br /><br />Why: for me is because I Decided I wanted to join the Para's at 16 but at the time my Mother wouldn't sign the Parent Release form thingy and said if I waited until I was 17 she would let me join the RAF Regiment Gunners (at the time I was told they have their own parachute guys) but by the time I was 17 I had started treatment to get braces and the RAF Turned me down so now i'm 19 obviously I don't need mother to sign my forms or anything and my braces came out but I don't finish final treatment of Invisalign Braces until sometime June 2014, apparently the Recruitment process can take up to 9 weeks (Thanks Corporal from 3 Scots) so I plan to apply sometime around April/May :D<br /><br />I would elaborate but their are these really fit birds so I'm gonna do what most red blooded men would attempt :D<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />This was sent from a Hudl*<br /><br />

 

 

Nice wall of text.

 

OK.

 

Joining the military.

You are nearly 20, have you worked in civvy street and lived alone/supported yourself?  That will help a great deal.

 

I find it odd that you can do 10 heaves but only 12 press-ups, heaves are significantly more difficult than press-ups.

10 sit-ups is a start too and a 30min 5k is actually very good, although you said it was a 1% incline so I am going to assume it is on a treadmill which is very different.

1.5 miles is 2.4k but is doesn't work out as taking half the time, 1.5 miles is more of a sprint race.

 

The two apps I mentioned earlier can get you to your numbers on the static exercises in 3 months or so so you have plenty of time there.

You can easily get to the run time in that as well, 6 months is a long time.

 

As for the recruitment process taking up to 9 weeks.

 

 

BWA HA HA HA ha ha haaaaa.

 

I was in basic with a guy for whom it took 2 years, it took me 4 months.

 

 

Also, please state your reasons for joining the Paras, the army isn't for ever and there are arms and corps that can leave you much better prepared for life in civvy street when you leave.

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OK.

The half marathon goal is a good one.

Why don't you choose an event and enter it? Post up the event date and what it is then work a training program back from that.

 

I think in your case the gym might be a waste of money, body weight exercises are a great place to start out building muscle and they are free.

 

Press-ups

Sit-ups

Heaves (normal at first and then reverse grip)

Chair tricep dips

Burpees

Good mornings

 

You can do all of that with a chair, something to stick your toes under and a bar (don't hit your head on the door frame).

 

You can even move on without going to the gym, you can start to work in some plyometrics (be careful - do NOT start on them right away) and do the advanced versions of some of those exercises:

 

One arm press-ups (plyometric is a clapping press-up)

Sit-up and stand

Shin-to-bar or muscle-ups (plyometric is a clapping pull-up)

Parallel bar tricep dips (can do this with two chairs but be careful they don't fall down).

Burpees - just go faster

Good mornings - add a little weight but be super-careful.

 

For that you need a proper heave bar and tricep bars but you might find there is a park near you with a "trim trail" in it that is free to use...

 

Get fit and save a bit of money.

 

Thanks very much for the advice; I appreciate it and will look at incorporating it into my routine. However I will continue to look at attending a gym, as I really enjoyed the power lifts when I dabbled last year. Squats, deadlifts etc are super fun and IMO the quickest way to see an increase of strength.  Exciting!

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New Years resolution: Cut back on the masturbation.

Resolution lasted until 00:01

 

Does that mean you take one minute to finish or start? :P

 

As for me started with an hour long walk that was both up hill and down giving me changes of pace and I feel the better for it. Now to sort the fruit and veg I have into something for tea.

 

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So, what qualifications do you need to get into university to study dentistry?

What about finances?

 

Do you have a first and second choice uni?

 

Sounds interesting...

 

In the US the prereq courses are exactly the same for medical school, but we simply take a different test (DAT vs MCAT). Ideally I'd like to stay in Texas (3 public schools, therefore cheaper and TBH the best "bang for your buck" schools in the US), but if I get accepted anywhere I'm taking it. :)

 

I believe Canada is linked to the US dental school system (albeit a different test and much higher GPA cutoffs for Canadian DS's), but I'm not sure how they'd function in the UK.

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Well you need undergrad prereq courses; some dental schools don't even require a bachelors (though it's looked down upon if you don't have one). Lots of extracurriculars are needed for the app, especially shadowing/volunteering in a dental office. That's all I remember off the top of my head, I'm sure there's a bit more that's required on the application.

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Cheers - I've done a few SMART analysis before for work, so i know the basics of them. not come accross GROW before, but it's a good addition to the SMART.

 

Oh, really? are they the fitness levels for the army? What a coincidence, who'd've thunk, etc etc ;)

 

Been to the gym this morning before i logged on here - i'll try and do a set of sit ups / press ups and run a 1.5 to get a baseline level soon.

 

There is an app called 100% ARMY FIT that might help you :)

 

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Seems I have a modification to my resolution.

 

My local club has a 25 yard indoor and a 100m outdoor range. So I guess I'll be aiming to eventually become an RCO so I can use the outdoor.

 

 

I will go down to see about joining up in the next week or so, need to see how I stand for money this month first. My other half has just gone permanent at her job, but it means going from the agency payroll, to working a couple of weeks in hand before getting paid.

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My first day back at work today.

I enquired about the race and I have got myself a plan.

 

I will be doing the standard 3 rides a week, 2 short, one long.

 

Building up the distance.

 

I think I will do hill reps on Thursday, long ride Sat or Sun and a nice easy blow out the cobwebs job on a Tuesday.

 

I will start this weekend and post my distances/times.

 

Keep it up people.

 

Remember.

 

IF YOU DON'T WORK - NOTHING WILL

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I would appreciate some amateurstuntman coaching:

 

Resolutions:

 

1) To achieve intermediate strength standards of 315/225/405lb for 5 reps in squat/bench/deadlift by 24th July. I am currently at 198/148.5/242lbs respectively at present. I am following a 3 day a week 5x5 linear progression programme that has so far added about 40lbs to all my lifts and I'm starting to managed chin ups from dead hang at a wobbly 238lbs. The reason for this is I want to be strong enough to manage myself better over obstacles in Tough Mudder type events (I have completed 1 Tough Mudder and a Spartan Super) - I am doing 2 Tough Mudders this year and 3 Spartan races. I have these events spread across the year to keep me motivated training wise, train hard...fight easy..or something like that.

 

2) On the note of wobblyness, by the same date I want to have dropped at least 40lbs. Having read into it I want to use 5:2 IF/ADF on my non lifting days and doing more cardio on off days (I do one 5km run a week atm, looking to add a mile of swimming on Tuesdays and taking the 5km out to 10km every weekend)

 

3) On the 10km note, having done the Movember 10km around a slightly hilly park with a time of 1hr 11min, I checked the chip times for all runners and  it seems that for males the median time was 56minutes. Therefore to help build my running speed up I will be using a 'Couch to 5K+' continuation program that uses interval training between jogging/hard running paces. (May need to alternate these with the longer weekend runs).

 

There is an underlying theme here of getting fit enough within the year that I could pass fitness tests comfortable for an armed forces career (considering dropping driving a desk and the WSOP/Int Officer roles in the RAF interest me and would also be carrying on family tradition).

 

4) Create more - I used to enjoy doodling (well, I say that, I used to do amatuerish concept art for characters and weapons to a friends fiction writing about 10 years ago) and have been itching to get back since I picked up a Marvel encyclopedia and the abundance of fitness mags I've got lying around tends to act as a pretty good reference for Marvel esque physiques. I also used to do a monthly-ish skirmish video as I'm reasonably comeptent in Premiere Pro and I also enjoy writing....so I was thinking with 3 creative interests, there is nothing to stop me putting something out a month.

 

5) Get out more - pretty sure one night in 28 in amongst all that physical stuff per month I can find a gig, theatre/orchaestra show to go to  in addition to getting back into 1 skirmish a month. Think this is born out of work being a bit cliquey and needing a bit more stimulus beyond reading the news, about airsoft, work related bits and pieces and moving iron.

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I would appreciate some amateurstuntman coaching:

 

Resolutions:

 

1) To achieve intermediate strength standards of 315/225/405lb for 5 reps in squat/bench/deadlift by 24th July. I am currently at 198/148.5/242lbs respectively at present. I am following a 3 day a week 5x5 linear progression programme that has so far added about 40lbs to all my lifts and I'm starting to managed chin ups from dead hang at a wobbly 238lbs. The reason for this is I want to be strong enough to manage myself better over obstacles in Tough Mudder type events (I have completed 1 Tough Mudder and a Spartan Super) - I am doing 2 Tough Mudders this year and 3 Spartan races. I have these events spread across the year to keep me motivated training wise, train hard...fight easy..or something like that.

 

2) On the note of wobblyness, by the same date I want to have dropped at least 40lbs. Having read into it I want to use 5:2 IF/ADF on my non lifting days and doing more cardio on off days (I do one 5km run a week atm, looking to add a mile of swimming on Tuesdays and taking the 5km out to 10km every weekend)

 

3) On the 10km note, having done the Movember 10km around a slightly hilly park with a time of 1hr 11min, I checked the chip times for all runners and  it seems that for males the median time was 56minutes. Therefore to help build my running speed up I will be using a 'Couch to 5K+' continuation program that uses interval training between jogging/hard running paces. (May need to alternate these with the longer weekend runs).

 

There is an underlying theme here of getting fit enough within the year that I could pass fitness tests comfortable for an armed forces career (considering dropping driving a desk and the WSOP/Int Officer roles in the RAF interest me and would also be carrying on family tradition).

 

4) Create more - I used to enjoy doodling (well, I say that, I used to do amatuerish concept art for characters and weapons to a friends fiction writing about 10 years ago) and have been itching to get back since I picked up a Marvel encyclopedia and the abundance of fitness mags I've got lying around tends to act as a pretty good reference for Marvel esque physiques. I also used to do a monthly-ish skirmish video as I'm reasonably comeptent in Premiere Pro and I also enjoy writing....so I was thinking with 3 creative interests, there is nothing to stop me putting something out a month.

 

5) Get out more - pretty sure one night in 28 in amongst all that physical stuff per month I can find a gig, theatre/orchaestra show to go to  in addition to getting back into 1 skirmish a month. Think this is born out of work being a bit cliquey and needing a bit more stimulus beyond reading the news, about airsoft, work related bits and pieces and moving iron.

 

I like to work in kilos, that's a goal of 142ish, 100ish and 184ish weighing 108 kilos, that's a nice, specific goal with a time limit.

I don't know much about lifting weights, I could never be bothered but that would make you abnormally strong.  I don't know if that amount of development is realistic/achievable in the time frame you have set.

If anyone else is a specialist and could chime in here, I'd appreciate it.

 

Tough mudders I know, they are brutal. I think the point is that no matter how well prepared you are they hurt.  50 man points for doing those...

 

ADF I do know.  I have been doing it since March last year, full ADF until August, 2:5 ADF from August until ½ way through December and I am now on a 3:4 and will stay that way until I hit target weight.

It is very effective but requires commitment, discipline and willpower.

It also makes me weak and grumpy on my fasting days, I was unable to do significant cardio on fasting days, you may be, I don't know.

 

Alternating sprints and jogging is the basis of fartlek training, you can slowly build up the reps.  So if you went out for a 5k run you could warm up for 15 minutes (2.5k ish) > 3 sets of 30 sec sprints 60 sec cooldown (1.2k ish) > 8 mins cool down (1.2k ish).  You will still be doing the sprints and covering 5k, as you get fitter just boost the number of reps, your run will naturally get longer. 

 

I don't know about the RAF (depending on the trade the requirements may be lower) but for the army press ups / sit ups / run you are probably already there on the run and the others shouldn't be a strain if you are used to gym work.

Find out specifics of the entry requirements and use that to shape your goals.

 

 

Creating is just about motivation and inspiration, you can only do one of those, you have to wait for the other.  Not really a coaching thing.

 

 

Going out, motivation again.

 

 

All these things are good but the only concern I have is that you have the potential to burn out.

 

3 gym sessions, 2 cardio and dieting using ADF might be too much to take on board, setting hard goals is good but there is a strong tendency to fail at all when you take on too many.

 

When I wanted to lose weight and improve fitness last year I had to diet first then exercise because I knew if I tried to do both I would fail at both.

By doing them one at a time I am succeeding.

 

I don't know you so you will have to be honest with yourself.

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140 squat 100 bench and a 185 dl is v achievable in a year although such weight programs involve eating a calorific surplus - if you are losing weight then progress will eventually stall. when I was taking it a bit more seriously I had those lifts at about 74kg (I'm 185cm tall so pretty skinny) when I did a 5*5. I wouldn't say its abnormally strong - they are roughly "intermediate" lifts - its pretty strong for a chain gym but if you were to go to a  powerlifting/weightlifting club you would reassess your standards ;)

 

 

In retrospect I wish I did 3*5 back then but if its working for you don't change it.

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When I said abnormal I didn't mean that as a negative.

With all the stuff that is wrong with my brain I sometimes forget the "flavours" that a word can have.

 

For example I once got in a fairly long discussion about how "irrational" is exactly the perfect word to describe religion.

Some people think irrational always means bad.

 

I think it means a fraction that can be expressed as a decimal with a finite number of decimal places...

 

 

Lifting that much would put him in probably the 1st percentile, yes people in specialist gyms could do more but then they are a tiny fraction of the population.

In this case it was sincerely meant as a compliment.

 

 

 

Anyway, I am on a fasting day today and I am really hungry.

I had a Muller rice for lunch and 2 pieces of toast for dinner, I have also had 4 cups of tea.

 

Jen at work sat opposite me today and ate an entire bag of Belgian chocolate covered peanuts (M&S), repeatedly offering them to me.

 

Nut?

 

Fasting.

 

Nut?

 

Fasting.

 

Nut?

 

FASTING!

 

Nut?

 

FAAAAASTIIIIIING!! AAAAaaargh!

 

Cup of tea?

 

OK, thanks.

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Irrational is the perfect word for religion. Either that or illogical. 

 

Anyway, i've still not managed to set a baseline figure for push-ups/ press ups of 1.5miles, i've been very tired and have also been trying to avoid the people that have made their resolution to 'get fit'.

 

RSM: That is quite surprisingly strong. you'd be able to bench press ME, for christs sake! D:

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Thanks for the pointers :)

 

I actually grinned at the word abnormal and fully agree with Skarclaw that the 'feats of strength' I want to be capable of may well be warm up sets to someone who makes it their speciality but I need to balance strength against the ability to cart the mass about at a decent pace.

 

The desire to get stronger comes from a somewhat comical notion that I feel that should I ever run into a situation where I may have to rely on my physical capabilities I won't find myself lacking...e.g. I'd rather be the person who can get himself over an 8 foot wall with a heave and a swing than the person who has to kick and wriggle over from a dead hang.

 

Anyway it is nearly 8pm on a Friday so I'm off to my corner of the weight room...

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I resolve to stop putting my index finger of my weak hand on the trigger guard hook.

 

I mean really. I never used to to it till they put the hook there; and now it's common knowledge that it's no good.

 

Unlearning things be frustatring.

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