Help me??!! Training Schedule.?

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Help me??!! Training Schedule.?
I am decided to join the Army. I am going to start training, my current fitness level is not good as all i do is swim. I need to be able to run a mile and a half in 12 minutes do push ups and pull ups. How long would it take roughly to get my fitness up if i train 5 days a week? please help out.

HIMIKO: - It is, i've been to the careers office and checked!! Thats what they told me!!

Air force = Boring

Are you British or American???

Are you British or American???

Answer 1

There is a free interactive training programme on the British Army website. It is aimed at people like you who want to improve their fitness before starting basic. Click the link here:

http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/How+do+I+Join/Can+I+Join/Get+Fit+for+the+Army.htm


PS Dear American citizens, on YA there is a setting for 'All English Questions' - that means they could come from anywhere in the world so long as they are written in the English language OR you could select 'US questions only' and that means that the questions are going to be about the USA & US military unless otherwise stated.
My settings are for UK & Ireland that's why I know that the question is about the British Army.


"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" Ambrose Bierce, America's finest satirist.

Answer 2

Congrats on the army? Where u the girl was about the bar job.? Anyway, Ok you going to do 5 days? That can be quite strenious, So on the 5th day prehaps a more gentle workout
You need time to let your muscles relax, if not then joint problems, and wobbly kness may occur.

Firstly are you good at jogging? Have you done much jogging, or is this first base. If you completly new to jogging i suggest to NOT go in the deep end, and try running 12 miles, it will be impossible, What you could try which is very effective is: First week 30s jogging and 1min 30 walking, This may seems looong, but you need your body to adjust, with each week you will increase the amount of running and decrease the amount of walking.

Ok if your a good jogger, you can still follow the same advice just start from a higher level. Say 2 minutes jogging with 1 minute walking,each week to the same increase and decrease do the amount you feel comfotable with, And remember if your cant hold a conversation whilst jogging, your going tooo fast.

Th DREADED push ups , and pull ups? situps?, Lol. Anyway these two bad boys aint that hard, and can be very easy to master.

Firstly the situps, ok when you begin dont do the obvious situp!, What you want to do is vary these to around 4/5 1)the orginal situp 2) The ball situp 3) the lift leg sit up 4) the touch other side situp. By doing all 4 your improve your chest areas, increasing the muscles on all areas. Again do not try to do loadz if your reach your limit then stop. A good technique is to wrtie a tally chart and every week you record the amount of situps you do, this will give you convifdence once you seem improvements :)

Press Ups! God i still find these hard!!! Lol ok, again if your a beginner than maybe the traditional push ups may not be best! You could try the push up whihc you cross your legs at the back and bring your forward body up,.. After you feel more confident you could try push ups. On the route of pushups, you wont get far without back muscles and arm muscles! So i believe you should consider weights!! (dont worry you wont be the hulk) But to enable you do to pushups you need arm/back muscles.

P.S Its best for you to do the jogging/walking activity in the morning, if you do make sure you eat a banana 20 minutes before

For situps , you really should by the ball! Its very effective

Make sure you eat a well balanced diet, include enough protein to give you energy


Gd luck :) :)

Answer 3

Without knowing your personal schedule its hard to say. Do you work? Do you go to school? Without knowing that, the best possible answer is to train 3 times a day if you can, with meals in between. I know one of Rampage's training partners and during a prep for a fight he does it something like this: Morning: cardio eat Noon: BJJ/wrestling/subs eat nap Late afternoon: Stand-up/mixed eat sleep If you are training to fight, I would work a schedule like that. Personally, because of work and school, that would be hard for most.

Answer 4

For running , if you swim you will be fine. I would start on the treadmill and start on doing a mile a day and build up to 2 miles in a week or so. You probably can do the pushups needed already but doing a few a night will help.

Answer 5

the only way to improve is to do it. but doing too much too quickly can cause injury and set you back even further.

Alternate cardio training with weight training, and give your body a day off in the middle of the week.

have your recruiter give you a mock PRT to find out where you stand right now, and they can help you focus on improving the areas you need to improve.

Answer 6

Need an anwser,

Why are you doubting himiko if you are asking a question here? If she has a 300 on her APFT, who are you to judge? And yes, she is right by the way. The Army doesn't even HAVE a pull-up event on the APFT....

Answer 7

The only way to get better at any of these things is to do them on a regular basis several times a day. Push ups and sit ups are repititious exercises that use short twitch and long twitch muscle. You first need to get your short twitch muscle honed into doing them. Do quick bursts of these 5-10 push ups and 15-25 sit ups as fast as you can with a minutes rest in between. Do this for about 7 days straight. Then concentrate on doing as many as you can is 30 seconds and rest for 2 minutes inbetween. If you do 5 sets at a time, three times a day you will be where you need to be in no time.

As for running, treadmills are a waste of time. There is no comparison between running on a treadmill and running on the actual street. As one of the other posters mentioned, focus on doing speed ladders for either distance or time. FOr instance, sprint for 30 seconds and jog for 30 seconds, sprint for a minute and jog for a minute or go to a track and sprint for 100 meters, jog for 100 meters, sprint for 200 meters, jog for 200 meters, go up to 400 meters (one full time around the track) and then back down to 100 meters. Do these on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's, and go on long slow jogs on Tuesday's, Thursday's and Saturdays and rest on Sunday's. I would also highly encourage you to run twice a day until you start to feel in better shape. It should only take you about 2-3 weeks before you will be in good enough shape to run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes easy.

As for pull ups, get a wooden handle broom and lay it across the seat of two chairs. Lay yourself flat on the floor under the broom handle and pull yourself up so your chin touches the bar leaving your feet on the floor. Do as many of these as you can. Then put the bar between two tables and do the same thing. You can also go out in your parents garage (maybe) and hang from one of the rafters and try and do pull ups. Bottom line is that pull ups are hard whether you are a male or female, but especially for females as their body isn't designed to do them.

Unless PT has changed, pull-ups weren't part of the PT test but I know they were considering changing the test when I got out. Anyway, the best way to get good at PT to to do PT. The more you do the better you will get. The key is to keep a positive attitude about it no matter how sore your muscles are and how tired you are, you NEED to keep doing it day in and day out. Eventually the sorenes will go away and you will actually begin to look forward to it and enjoy it. For distance jogging, get yourself a walkman to listen to so that your brain has something to focus on other than the pain assocaited with running. It always worked for me. If I would run for distance without something to keep my mind occupied all I would think of is how bad I felt and how soon I could quit.

Good luck!

Answer 8

Join the Air Force Reserves instead.
Army PT standards is not what you stated.