Making Marines - Get Ready For Marine Boot Camp

By Don't Oppress me Bro on Jul 18, 2009 | Reply

mental preparation will be more beneficial. get ready to push yourself to and beyond your own limits.

By Morecards on Jul 20, 2009 | Reply

I been running/jogging/walking a lot in the past few weeks..Shipping out in 2 weeks

By a_wood80 on Jul 23, 2009 | Reply

Run a lot. View it as a job, not a pass time. For push ups, you just gotta do them. Try doing ten push ups every time you walk through a particular door.

By Andrea H on Jul 24, 2009 | Reply

Get your fitness up. Go for jogs etc. Don’t worry so much about the other stuff. You’ll build up those muscles soon enough at boot camp. Just keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll be fine. I did nothing at all before and the first three weeks almost killed me, but I got through it alright in the end.

By william c on Jul 26, 2009 | Reply

4 times a day do as many push ups as you can then do 30 more. Run as far as you can then run at lest one more mile then turn around run back. do 100 setups when u get up and when u go to bed.

By adasgt1981 on Jul 26, 2009 | Reply

download fm 21-20 read it and do the pt test
have someone critique you ie recruiter
run run run
but gradually do it like 1 mile
then 1.5 miles then the full 2
do pushups and situps every night before you go to sleep and when you get up

By sharma on Jul 29, 2009 | Reply

ok starting point to keep working to, 5 minute mile. if you can work up and stay at a 5 minute mile you will be tops. work on
50 sit ups and 50 push ups. with women the military allows you to be on your KNEES to do push ups. this is good starting points for you to work towards. they also do long marches, like 10 mile march, 5 mile run. this should get you started.
if you can do 6 minute mile, 50 push ups, 50 sit ups, you will have no problem physically in basic.
after basic, they give you extra time to finish the 2 mile run, also at your permanant duty station also.
work up to a 6 minute mile, see what your slowest time is to finish 2 mile run, then keep working on it to get to the 6 minute mile.
good luck, dont give up. a gym is not necessary. you can do these excercises anywhere.

By kavekarst on Jul 29, 2009 | Reply

Even the most fit are driven equally as the flab that should have hid behind mom’s buttocks when passing the recruiting office. Exercise all you want. The military will do that and more. The mental portion, yes, that needs work before you
enter. Your initial training is intended to break everyone down to a common level and then rebuild everyone back to
that which exists within the Armed Forces. All branches are
tweaked differently but share joint missions. The ideal new
entry can like any just machined part fit as designed within
a larger organization. The part of your core values as they
exist will be challenged. If religious, go to church elders, as
the military transition problems and solutions are usually familiar enough for reader to recieve some coaching. You
can’t go wrong with reading the collected poems of Rudyard
Kipling either. Sun Yat-sen is another author to read. Don’t
be too afraid. Fear itself is a tool. Its a good spice. Enjoy.
I envy reader.

By diva on Jul 31, 2009 | Reply

ok like im in boot camp right now for the ARmy and we are at home for the hoildays sweet shit right get two weeks off for hoildays but n-e-way we have hard work outs and here is a list of stuff you can do that you just might do depending on your branch

1. the bend and reach

2. the rear lunge

3. the high jumper( bend over at the hips arms behind you swing arms froward with a jump then swinging them back as you come down then swinging arms above head jumping high off ground)

4. the rower( lay on the floor face down arms out and pull your arms back to chin and pull chest of the floor)

5. the squat bender( squat with arms out in front of you then come up then been over and touch your toes)

6. the windmill( bending over with arms out and tuching your toes)

7. the push up

8. the sit up

9. the power jump(jumping jacks)

10. the mountain climber

11. the single leg push up

biuld up your running dont know how old you are but for each age group the is a time for running and how many sets you have to do in order to pass your apft. in the army everything is 2 min ( sit ups, push up) for the apft with a two mile run. since you dont know how to do good push ups lay on the ground with your arms as if your going to do a push up and just push up your uper body nothing else and that will help do pull ups even if you have to get up from some body holding your feet

It’s not as hard as you might think it is I have no upper body and just being there for 7 weeks i can do 25 push ups and on my first diagnostic i did 0( the right way the ARMY way lol) MAKE SURE YOU RUN EVERYDAY

By jason on Aug 3, 2009 | Reply

just make it a priority to work out every day a little. as far as the pushups just keep at it, you’ll get better. try doing 10 pushups, 10 situps, 10 leg levers, 10 whatever, then come back a do 10 more pushups and start over. if you haven’t work out in awhile just try 2 sets or so and just try to up your heart rate and you’ll get better. workouts in my opinion should be 30 minutes to an hour or so in length. i’m not a gym guy, i don’t want to be huge and freakish looking, i do pushups, situps, crunches, leg levers, flutter kicks, hello dolly’s, hip rotations, neck rotations, arm circles, pullups, itb stretches, leg stretches, and run. you can stagger or vary the runs, 1.5 miles to 10 or so is where we max out but then again we also throw in indian runs and stuff like that. we will also run for 3-5 minutes and then stop and do 10-20 pushups and situps or crunches then run again and repeat for about 3 miles or so. the key is to just do it.