What should i'm in alot of pain doing pt, and i feel like i can't go any longer?

[PooleeWebber]

Originally posted by HardJedi
hey webber, just go back to the start of this thread and read the whole thing. tons of info there

Acknowledged, thanks.

[DebSantos]

Hey Kelvin , Philippans 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me! Thats a good one and as long as you know where to draw your strength from, you'll be just fine! Did you know that Evandor Holyfeild (the boxer) has Philp 4:13 on his robe that he wears before getting in the ring? hanging on to that belief sure did him well and hid record shows that! Dont want to bore you but my son is also a boxer for 10 years now ,before he left he was ranked 7th in the nation in his amature weight class.when he came home from boot camp he went and got a tatoo . It was the lords praying hands with his dog tags wrapped around them .He left the tags blank, I asked what are you going to have tatooed in side the tags? he said Philippians 4:13 I find it cool that this one is also your favorite! by the way how are your pull ups? Take care

[Kelvin Quinonez]

Thanks alot man.

[Kelvin Quinonez]

I can do 7 pullups right now. I do a 3 mile run in 20:40. I can't remember how many crunches I did. That's awsome that your son did that.

[Kelvin Quinonez]

Thanks for all of the advice everyone.

[Blindside8162]

I hit 21 pullups last Saturday at our poolee function. Thats a personal best. I got 103 sit-ups and my 1 1/2 mile is 11:25.

[snipowsky]

I won't even lie...one thing that helped me through boot camp is my faith in God and attending church every Sunday at Parris Island helped me emotionally and spiritually to keep on trucking through the next weeks events. If you have God in your life all things are possible. You just don't even realize what talents he gave you until you max yourself out and go beyond what you thought are your very own capabilities!

Oh and seeing them sexy female DI's every now and then on PI was a motivator. lol I got busted checking out a female DI in formation one time and my SDI let her thrash me. Talk about one happy recruit. I was loving be thrashed by her!

If you have that WHO DARES WINS attitude nothing will stop you! Don't get me wrong boot camp is very physical, but if you go there with the right mental attitude you will not be stopped by anything and you will become a UNITED STATES MARINE!

The smartest thing I've seen so far by any of you Poolees is what CrazyBrave83 said. I can see a Marine in him already and I like that! Follow his lead and when you get to boot camp be your own leader. If you study your USMC knowledge your recruiters should be giving you and do what you are told...there is no reason your DI's or your SDI won't realize in time how locked on you really are and you will stand out from the rest!

Semper Fi!

[DebSantos]

Kelvin, one more thing. NO MORE AND NO LESS ! Just do as your told ,and do it fast!!!! did I say fast I meant to say FAST

[CrazyBrave83]

Originally posted by Blindside8162
I hit 21 pullups last Saturday at our poolee function. Thats a personal best. I got 103 sit-ups and my 1 1/2 mile is 11:25.

25 Pullups, 153 Crunches, 9:36 for 1.5

Beat me. If its in your heart, you will. But you HAVE to train. Your diet is important. And most of all, you have to earn it.

Side note. When I started with the DEP I did 4 pullups, 46 crunches, and 13:38 for 1.5.

Keep this attitude... "If you ever DREAM of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize."

-????

[Angel]

You'll make it through if you put your mind and heart into it.. Stay motivated and while you're at boot camp make sure you write to everyone at home that would write back to you.. They will give you the motivations and the strength to keep on going.. Motivations letter or hearing from home will keep you stronger and it will push you forward into succeeding because you'll want to see them proud of you when you are done.. Keep in close contact with your families and friends while you're in bootcamp.. It'll make you realize who is your real friends and who you can rely on.. It'll make you stronger... Stay motivated..

[enviro]

Damn good on the pull-ups Poolees - keep it up! Pull-ups are the money points for the PFT score.

I remember back when "kipping" was allowed with pull-ups. I had it down to an exact science and could do about 35 of them pretty easily. Then somebody got the idea that we should be doing dead-hangs. I went from a solid 20 every time to 7 on my best day. I managed to work my way back up to about 12-15 before I got out.

Crunches are better than the old sit-ups we were doing. Sit-ups hurt the back too much.

And when I turned 27 and got an old man's score that helped, too!

Anybody who thinks 27 isn't old, hasn't been in the Marine Corps. I think we age in dog years.

[HardJedi]

HELL YEAH Enviro! Ever seen a 38 year old First Sergeant who served in the infantry? Thjose guy's look like they are in the 60's -70's! LOL

Personally though, I alway's thought the sit-ups/ crunchess were the easy points. Hell, I was a fat slob before boot and I could do 80

[lovelldj]

The DI tells you to do pushups until he gets tired. Funny thing is, some people drop after 10-15, some after 20-30, and some of the best after 60, 70, etc. But, eventually, all stop doing pushups. You can only do so many pushups. But strangely, while you're lying on the deck on your face, someone else's boots a few inches from your noise, sweat making a pool underneath you, eventually, you get more tired of being on your face than you are of doing pushups, so you start doing pushups again. You don't last long - you were already tired. But, you do more. Then the DI gets bored and has you switch to situps or bends and thrusts or running in place (higher! higher! higher!). You just keep doing it. And when you're about to quit, you do one more. Then you do one more. By the time the 12 weeks are over, you can do many more of each than you used to be able to, and it's all kind of a joke by then. You're no longer afraid of your DI, and you look forward to a good strenuous PT session. That's when they need to graduate you and move you on to something else - you got out of recruit training what you were supposed to get out of it. One of those things is the realization that when you need to, you can call up extra reserves from your body. You don't even need someone yelling at you to do it. You just do one more.

[Blindside8162]

You must be like the enegizer bunny in crunches crazybrave! I'll get back to you next month about my new IST scores. I'll beat you before i ship out in September!

[BIGFISH]

I was sick and could't do the run , I had to go to the Hosp. after I got out of the Hosp, I went to a new Paltoon, so it took me one more try to make it out of boot camp. In Nam during tet a rocket blew me against a tank, I did't think much of it, but I was taken to 95th Army hosp. there were a lot of wounded but the doctor saw this marine first he gave me a shot of morfine, and told me to lay still, someone from my unit came and said I had orders to go back to the field right now, I went out for two weeks my leg swelled up twice its size, I was ordered to the rear, I went to China Beach Hosp. the doctor said I had Broken my leg in 5 places. The thing I'm getting at is never give up , it took me three tries to make it out of boot camp, but once you do you might have a chance to make a difference in your unit.