skaterjon89
01-21-08, 02:00 AM
MCRDSD 20080804
Pull-ups: 17
Crunches: 118
1.5 Mile Run: 8:54
Height: 5'8
Weight: 130ish
Ok, so at my recruiting station people keep asking me "OMFG how do you do all that" (as in my IST scores) and I bet a good amount of poolees are wondering the same thing, or wonder it when you see a fellow poolee at your RS do it. The answer is very simple, train, train, train, train. If you really want something bad, you can get it, no one hands you anything in life, you have to earn and take it...
With that said I know there has been posts about the Armstrong Pull-up program, but it really does work, I was only doing 11 pull-ups when I first started. It is a real simple program to follow, you just have to follow it. Same thing with the crunches, if you never train, how in the name of Josephine Taylor do you expect to get better.
Now running is just the same little story I have been preaching, train, train, train. To many people think that running a mile or a 1.5 miles once a week or so will have them to do just dandy in any PT not just the IST. The thing is, it does help you yes, but not that much, I was a x-country/track runner and from experience the more you run, litterally the easier it gets. People complain about cramps, crying about knees, shin-splints, naucious, dizzy, dehydration, and out of breath. For cramps, eat a banana maybe a couple hours before you run, or the night before, and don't drink any liquids before you run. If you are crying about knees hurting, shin-splints, you most likely are running in your regular shoes that keep your feet extremely hot and when you run it sounds like a freaken brick is hitting the ground, or your running shoes are pooping on you. Go out and buy some decent pair of running shoes, your feet/knees/shins will thank you greatly for letting them breathe easier with less pressure. If you are naucious, dizzy, dehyrdated do not eat foods or the like that when you see it and eat it you even tell yourself "this is gonna make me sick..." and drink plenty of fluids the night before (preferred water). If you are complaining that you can't breathe and you are not an ashmatic and you stop, stfu and keep going, really. I understand that it is hard to breathe at times, well do not try to run your fastest when training, keep a steady pace that you feel comfortable with but at the same time will bring you that joyous pain that makes you better. When I first started running in high school I was barely doing a 25minute 3-mile I got down to about 17:40, not from pushing myself the hardest in 1 mile then calling it quits, but running LSD (long slow distances) mixed with shorter, faster distances week by week. If you never train you can never expect to get better...
http://www.4mcd.usmc.mil/AOP/OSOHyattsville/PT.htm
So if you are reading this post and then going to go browse the rest of the forums and your telling your self "tommorow I will start" well why not now? If you feel embarassed or whatever, go buy a cheap pull up bar, crunch it out in your room as with pushups. Hate running outside with nature? Run on a treadmill if you have one, or hit your local h.s. track at night or in the morning where people can't see you. (although this gets real boring, real fast, run with nature-sing some cadence, ipod it up, this helps with your concentration away from pain, helps breathing, and time flys.) Before you know it you can be doing 20 pull ups 125+ crunches and running some nice times for your 1.5 mile.
SO GET OFF YOUR BUTT, THROW ON SOME SHORTS and RUNNING SHOES AND CHARGE THAT MOFO WITH SOME MOTIVATING CADENCE ON YOUR IPOD LIKE I DO AND SING ALONG!!!!!!
Yeah, some people look at me weird, but at the same time I get some nice honks, waves, gotten some free waters and stuff, have had 1 Marine Sgt. stop me and tell me its nice to hear some moto cadence coming out of my poolee mouth...
If you want to keep track of your progress, or just wondering how bad you are doing and want to see a score to get yourself motivated to go out and get active here is a PFT calculator site I found...self explanitory...
http://semperfi.uchicago.edu/PFT%20Calculator.html
Pull-ups: 17
Crunches: 118
1.5 Mile Run: 8:54
Height: 5'8
Weight: 130ish
Ok, so at my recruiting station people keep asking me "OMFG how do you do all that" (as in my IST scores) and I bet a good amount of poolees are wondering the same thing, or wonder it when you see a fellow poolee at your RS do it. The answer is very simple, train, train, train, train. If you really want something bad, you can get it, no one hands you anything in life, you have to earn and take it...
With that said I know there has been posts about the Armstrong Pull-up program, but it really does work, I was only doing 11 pull-ups when I first started. It is a real simple program to follow, you just have to follow it. Same thing with the crunches, if you never train, how in the name of Josephine Taylor do you expect to get better.
Now running is just the same little story I have been preaching, train, train, train. To many people think that running a mile or a 1.5 miles once a week or so will have them to do just dandy in any PT not just the IST. The thing is, it does help you yes, but not that much, I was a x-country/track runner and from experience the more you run, litterally the easier it gets. People complain about cramps, crying about knees, shin-splints, naucious, dizzy, dehydration, and out of breath. For cramps, eat a banana maybe a couple hours before you run, or the night before, and don't drink any liquids before you run. If you are crying about knees hurting, shin-splints, you most likely are running in your regular shoes that keep your feet extremely hot and when you run it sounds like a freaken brick is hitting the ground, or your running shoes are pooping on you. Go out and buy some decent pair of running shoes, your feet/knees/shins will thank you greatly for letting them breathe easier with less pressure. If you are naucious, dizzy, dehyrdated do not eat foods or the like that when you see it and eat it you even tell yourself "this is gonna make me sick..." and drink plenty of fluids the night before (preferred water). If you are complaining that you can't breathe and you are not an ashmatic and you stop, stfu and keep going, really. I understand that it is hard to breathe at times, well do not try to run your fastest when training, keep a steady pace that you feel comfortable with but at the same time will bring you that joyous pain that makes you better. When I first started running in high school I was barely doing a 25minute 3-mile I got down to about 17:40, not from pushing myself the hardest in 1 mile then calling it quits, but running LSD (long slow distances) mixed with shorter, faster distances week by week. If you never train you can never expect to get better...
http://www.4mcd.usmc.mil/AOP/OSOHyattsville/PT.htm
So if you are reading this post and then going to go browse the rest of the forums and your telling your self "tommorow I will start" well why not now? If you feel embarassed or whatever, go buy a cheap pull up bar, crunch it out in your room as with pushups. Hate running outside with nature? Run on a treadmill if you have one, or hit your local h.s. track at night or in the morning where people can't see you. (although this gets real boring, real fast, run with nature-sing some cadence, ipod it up, this helps with your concentration away from pain, helps breathing, and time flys.) Before you know it you can be doing 20 pull ups 125+ crunches and running some nice times for your 1.5 mile.
SO GET OFF YOUR BUTT, THROW ON SOME SHORTS and RUNNING SHOES AND CHARGE THAT MOFO WITH SOME MOTIVATING CADENCE ON YOUR IPOD LIKE I DO AND SING ALONG!!!!!!
Yeah, some people look at me weird, but at the same time I get some nice honks, waves, gotten some free waters and stuff, have had 1 Marine Sgt. stop me and tell me its nice to hear some moto cadence coming out of my poolee mouth...
If you want to keep track of your progress, or just wondering how bad you are doing and want to see a score to get yourself motivated to go out and get active here is a PFT calculator site I found...self explanitory...
http://semperfi.uchicago.edu/PFT%20Calculator.html