Need help with my IST scores. And I am about to leave.

[Patientlywaitin]

Since March 1st I have been running 3-4 times a week, well I didn't run very much in April I got kinda turned off by waiting.

My crunches are at 114 and pull ups 16-17.
But my running is terrible I did a 16:10 run at our Poolee IST.
I am pretty sure most of it was that we had to double time to our starting point for a half mile. But still I cant even run 2 miles without stopping.

My leave date was sept 12th but just got moved up to July 18th. And I have just really picked up my running to running as far as I can around a 3 mile track, Mon. Wed. and Friday. And sunday I do my mile and a half run.

I tried to run on a treadmill for my mile and a half, and it turns out that I do even worse at what seems like a faster pace.

What can I do to really step my A** into gear and get around a 12 min mile and a half time.

I see all these amazing IST times, and wonder what I have done. I am in college and have no job, or I was in college, so I am not going from being active to running. Thats why I am so bad at running I never really did it.

[93Reaper]

Since March 1st I have been running 3-4 times a week, well I didn't run very much in April I got kinda turned off by waiting.

My crunches are at 114 and pull ups 16-17.
But my running is terrible I did a 16:10 run at our Poolee IST.
I am pretty sure most of it was that we had to double time to our starting point for a half mile. But still I cant even run 2 miles without stopping.

My leave date was sept 12th but just got moved up to July 18th. And I have just really picked up my running to running as far as I can around a 3 mile track, Mon. Wed. and Friday. And sunday I do my mile and a half run.

I tried to run on a treadmill for my mile and a half, and it turns out that I do even worse at what seems like a faster pace.

What can I do to really step my A** into gear and get around a 12 min mile and a half time.

I see all these amazing IST times, and wonder what I have done. I am in college and have no job, or I was in college, so I am not going from being active to running. Thats why I am so bad at running I never really did it.

I got you on this, the recruiters and many other people including my fitness teacher tell people to do Sprint Walks. Go to a track and sprint the straights, jog or walk the turns. Do it a few times around the track everyday on top of your normal lifting (or whatever) workout you do and do it after. It helps build up endurance, and if you don't want to do that then i would say push yourself to run 3 miles one day and 1.5 miles the next then another 3 and so forth. I myself am not a great long distance runner but i get consistently around 9:45-10:30 which is a good IST time and around 20-21 minute 3miles.

[Patientlywaitin]

Man I dont really do crunches much anymore I can still hammer out 115 tho which isnt bad. I dont really do workouts I dont have weights or anything. I heard that boot camp doesnt really have a lot of running which is what makes the pft so hard

[93Reaper]

Man I dont really do crunches much anymore I can still hammer out 115 tho which isnt bad. I dont really do workouts I dont have weights or anything. I heard that boot camp doesnt really have a lot of running which is what makes the pft so hard

You must be joking because there is no way anyone could take this seriously. If i am wrong someone please prove it because all the friends and people that I've talked to that are marines now say they ran a lot in bootcamp.

[Patientlywaitin]

I got a friend I was talking to last night in Okinawa hes a grunt. 0311. He pretty much said that they didnt run as much as he had expected.

[93Reaper]

I got a friend I was talking to last night in Okinawa hes a grunt. 0311. He pretty much said that they didnt run as much as he had expected.

"Do not forget to do stretches before and after all exercises and runs.
Run, run, and run some more. You'll be doing lots of it in boot camp so get used to it now."

From the Stickied thread The Ultimate Guide for Boot Camp
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=59314

[Patientlywaitin]

Anyway I know I am trying to work my way into the best I can in the next 2 months. my main goal is to make that 6mph into 7.5 miles an hr. Its really starting to **** me off that I cant run for ****.

[Patientlywaitin]

oo-rah.com/store/pt/pt0214.asp

Just read that and it made me have a small sense of relief. That they will start you out at 1.5miles.

[Patientlywaitin]

Still gonna do my best though, gonna train as hard as I can for the next two months!!

[Tbrown10]

also get on the stair stepper Machine if your gym has one, and you might wanna dosprint/walk like that one guy said, that helped me a ton but heres my leg routine..

Mondays
1.5 Mile for time as hard as i can ( not allowed to stop/walk)
Wait a few hours then do...
-5 Rounds of:
-Stair Stepper machine 2 minutes at 90-100 steps per minute
-Treadmill (Sprint hard for .15 mile)
-Rest 2 mins between rounds

Wednesday
Run a slow 3 miles at an easy pace,maybe take a route that has some hills and work on controlling breathing
-non stop 10 mins of:
-15 push ups
-20 situps
-15 air squats ( killer lol)

Fridays
-Mondays workout


im pretty sure i could run a mid 10 1.5 mile now since on my last ist i got a 1130

[Patientlywaitin]

Thanks, Tbrown10.

[IHaveEGA843]

What I've done is sprints on the treadmill on mon wed fri and just go run paced how I want it for 1.5 2 miles tus thrus.

Get on a treadmill put a 2.0 incline on it. Sprint 7.1 for .25 the jog or fast walk th next .25 then go back up to 7.1 for .25 the jog or fast walk for .25 the sprint 7.1 for .25 then jog or walk for .25. That's your mile and a half. Control your breathing in your nose out your mouth.

Sat I did pt with my rs and we went running and I was talking and **** joking around. It sucked but I can easily do it and keep up with my recruiter. I asked him and he told me when we first started out we could've finished the 1.5 in 7 min but he slowed it down for some of the laggers then he said a high 12 low 13 min 1.5.

Its all mental man and when you run by yourself it truly sucks but when its in formation or with a partner its 10X better.

[MunkyVsRobot]

I got a friend I was talking to last night in Okinawa hes a grunt. 0311. He pretty much said that they didnt run as much as he had expected.

Hahaha you seriously have got to be joking right. You do realize that the ist is only half the pft right? the pft run is 3 miles in under 28 min i believe.

and knocking off almost 3 minutes off your run time before the end of july is only going to take one thing running running and more running. I suggest jogging 2 miles without walking 3 times a week leaving a buffer day in to recover you could try for 5 days a week. But with your IST time being at over 16 min you are either running slow or are walking a lot.

[robbyj]

Fail Sauce

[Honcho1010]

I think he meant boot camp doesn't involve AS MUCH PT as we all think. I've heard that also. Still, its far more than the average person would do.

So, i went from a 17 minute 1.5 mile to a 11:55 as of my last poolee function. Basically, i ran every day. Not at a slow or fast pace just ran for 20 minutes every morning and 40 minutes every night. This boosted my endurance to new heights. So the following week i ran at a faster pace, looking to clock time. Not my IST times but it was decent times. You really just need to learn to run hard. Sprint hard at the end of all your runs, every time you run. This helped me from April-May. i ran 13:36 at April's function and 11:55 at May's. Im improving daily. Good luck man.