I want to join the Marine Corps are there any excercizes that I could do to prepare myself?

Question

Before I sign up so I do not appear as a weak person?

Answer 1

Definitely. If your recruiter has told you already you need to focus on some key exercises.
1) Run, at least a mile and a half a day. This will be your first timed run in Basic, and you want to pass that. Otherwise you will be required to stay with a Physical training platoon until your time gets with Regs. This will, of course, increase the time you spend in Basic, as you will not have started training until you pass that run time. So run the mile and a half, don't jog it. The next run, and every run after that, will be at least 3 miles.
2) Pull ups. Seriously, knock these puppies out daily. I went into Basic doing three and left doing twenty. The trick is to do them every day. And DO NOT be like those damn dumbasses at the gym that kip. You kip, you fail. There should be absolutely no rocking motion with your body. Your legs cannot assist you in any way, shape or form. This makes them hard....which is the point. So square these away DAILY.
3) Crunches. Before Basic I knocked out 100 when I woke up in the morning, and 100 before I went to bed. When I went to basic, I nailed the 100 cruches within the time frame alloted during the Initial PFT.
4) Push-ups. Put a bar of soap on the ground, at the center of your chest, and drop to that location...always looking out 45 Degrees. Then push up. You back needs to be straight as a arrow.

To kill two birds with one stone I would do pyramids. One pull-up, then 10 push-ups. 2 pull-ups, then 10 push-ups. 3 pull-ups, then 10-push-ups. The point is to do an many as you can until failure. Then, then next day...do it again. When you are done you want to at least knock out up to 7 or 8 on the pull-up to push-up pyramid. This will leave you with 70-80 pushups and 28-36 pull ups.

Hope this helps. Good Luck!!!

Answer 2

Study up on Marine Corps knowledge (history, etc.), constantly exercise, and most importantly, mentally prepare yourself. Learn to say anything while standing at attention. Try listening to something funny and force yourself not to laugh. Your recruiter can help you get prepared. The hardest part is the first couple of weeks when you are thrown into a living hell and no end seems in sight. The end comes eventually, though, you just stick through it.

Answer 3

Push-ups / Sit-ups / RUN!!!!!!! every day or at least 5 days a week and not just 1 or 2 miles you should be able to run 3 or 4 miles at a time, right now time limit is not important just run try for max of 11 minute mile and they will get you where you really need to be at BOOT. Do 50-100 push-ups and sit-ups a day and they will finish your PT in BOOT. All of this will make BC a little easy'r for you. Good Luck and do our Country Proud like I know you will.

Simper Fi to those who know and you will know little dog.

Vet-USAF

Answer 4

Push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, a lot of running, push pulls, up downs, dips (weighted dips, if possible. Actually, weighted everything but sit-ups, if possible), and a lot more.
Basically, you need to get into the best shape of your life before they make you even better.

If you want to talk to someone about some exercise regiments you can use, talk to a recruiter or shoot me an e-mail.

"PT, PT, everyday;
Mend your body the Marine Corps way."

Answer 5

Running, pullups, and situps. The running will help with the humps you will have to go on. It is also part of the PFT along with the situps and pullups. When you do pullups, remeber that it must start each pullup from a dead arm hang.

Answer 6

RUN

Answer 7

Okay, so if you join the marines, I don't want to hear your family complaining about long deployments. You know what you are signing up.

Also, many Americans don't care about the troops. They are busy shopping at the malls while the president uses his arrogance to invade and occupy other countries.

Answer 8

pushups, situps, pullups, run, and repeat until muscle failure a few times a week. Have fun.

Answer 9

i have no real experience here but you gotta run a ton the more contionded you are the easier bootcamp and the easier bootcamp the funner it is

Answer 10

parctice using the f-word multiple times in one sentence