What are the best exercizes to do to get ready for boot camp?
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Of course you already have many of the answers.  If you are going to Army Basic Training, then you will take a physical fitness test which consists of push ups, sit ups, and a two mile run.  So of course performing any of these will help you and prevent a lot of soreness early on.  My recommendation is every hour knock out 25 pushups and situps(or whatever you can do).  Most definately start running.  You will probably start off slow in Basic Training.  Most Army standards are four miles in 36 minutes (nine minute miles).  The Army increasingly uses pullups and chinups during physical training (PT).  So you might want to spend a little time working on your upper body strength.  The only other thing I would recommend is squats.  There is nothing better than the feeling you experience in your thighs after doing some lunges.  Walking might be a little painful the next day.  Don't worry it's a good pain, because you are improving yourself.  Don't worry, basic training is as fun as you make it.  We used to follow the drill sergeant around so that he would make us do push ups.  Its just a game.  I will have 23 years this summer and it keeps getting better.  Good luck and congratulations on your decision to serve your country.  I thank you!
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I used to be a Marine.\n\nPhysically you should be able to:\n1. run 3 miles in under 24 minutes.\n2. be able to as many pull ups as possible.\n3. be able to do 100 sit-ups in 2 minutes.\n\nMentally you need to accept the fact you'll be removed from everyone you know and might have to sacrifice your life.\n\nThe good side is that you'll do things your friends can only dream of, you'll meet people you've never imagined, you'll travel worldwide for free, and room+board is free!\n\nGood luck.
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stick with the basics.\n\npush ups, crunches, and running/walking.
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marine corps boot camp first. OORAHH!!!!!
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WARMING UP\n\nBefore starting the exercises, warm up your muscles. Stretch properly, and jog around for a few minutes.\n\nIf you have a jumprope, use it. Jumping rope definitely helps your conditioning.\n\nRunning up and down stairs for a while is very useful as a warmup, or a full exercise. Don't do too much or else you may wear our your legs. Use it as a quick warmup, or a full exercise.\n\nJUMPING EXERCISES\n\nDeep Knee Bends --- Be standing. Slowly bend at the knees while keeping your back straight. Slowly crouch down as low as possible (it shouldn't hurt) and slowly rise back up. Do this 15 times. Over time increase to 20, 30, etc.\n\nDeep Knee Bend Jumps --- Be standing. Crouch down as described above but fairly quickly, almost touching your bottom to the ground, then explode upwards as high as you can. The moment you land, immediately crouch and launch back up again. Do this 15 times, and when you can, increase to 20, 30, etc.\n\nToe Raises --- Stand regularly, then raise up onto the tips of your toes. Lower back down. Don't just rock up and down, do it slowly (not too slowly) but steadily. Repeat 30-50 times.\n\nToe-Raise with Weights --- If you have any sort of weights, holding/wearing them while doing these toe raises will help. Use small weights (a mere 5 or 10 pounds is fine) and work your way up.\n\nStomach Crunches --- We believe that sit-ups are bad for your back. Stomach crunches, where while lying on your back, using your ab muscles and keeping your back straight, you rise up just enough to lift your shoulders off the ground, are better. Do them often - perhaps for 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes at night.\n\nJumping Rope--- Jumping rope definitely helps your vertical leap. Jump rope while watching tv or something. Make it a habit.
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Do cardio. Try high intensity. It burns more fat and it is fast. Do it like this: first jog for about 2 mins of until u are warmed up. Then sprint as fast as u can for 1 min and then again go slow for another min. Keep doing this for about 20-25 mins and by the time you are done you should be extremely exhausted and out of breath. Your heart rate should go upto abt 80-85% of your max rate but dont keep counting that. Just make sure u cant talk when you are intensely doing it. IF u can talk that means your not doing it hard enough. And also cut abt 200-300 calories daily. Hope this helps!!
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Morning: Wake up, eat spinach. Do 70 push-ups. If you can't, try as many as you can, and the next morning or night, you can try again.\nBreakfast: pancakes with frozen fruits on top.\nNoon: go to the local gym, and lift heavy weights about 80 times each hand. If you can't, then come again another day and make it a new goal.\nLunch: Drink some Gatorade and eat something healthy and starchy with carbohydrates (maybe rice with chicken or something).\nAfternoon: Go jogging or running with your dog. When you pull on the leash of the dog, you're building muscles.\nDinner: eat something with lots of protein... (maybe steak and a baked potato, eat the skin, the skin has vitamins)\nNight: Before you sleep, try either sitting-up or pushups, sit ups can strengthen your lungs and stomach, so you can sing better and run with more breath.\nI hope I helped!\nOh, almost forgot. Don't drink a lot of sodas, and don't eat too much junk food. Those make you fat.
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Train, train, train before you go. Get yourself use to getting up at 5:00 a.m. and exercising for 2 hours. If your not a good runner then run every other day as far as you can. That's probably the hardest thing to get use to at first in boot. Make lots of friends in your unit. Don't take what the instructor says personal, unless your certain it's meant to be personal. Do what your told and don't back talk. Everybody get's in at least a little bit of trouble so don't let it go to heart when you do. After the first 2 weeks they'll lighten up on you a bit so don't give up, just do the very best you can and you'll do fine.
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All of the above answers are good.  Navy Boot Camp will require you to pass a Physical Readiness Test prior to graduation.  The amount of push-up, sit-up, and the time for a mile and a half run are all based on your age.  Your Recruiting station is responsible for administering the test and ensuring you pass it prior to shipping to RTC.  If you still can’t pass by the time you are scheduled to go they should drop you or change your ship date but probably won’t.  At Boot Camp you will get three more physical test.  At a minimum you have to pass the final one.  If you still can’t pass you will go to a physical conditioning division and stay there until you pass or until the Navy sends you home.  \n\nOther than that, the rest of Navy boot camp is 75% classroom.  You will do push-ups and other physical training daily to build teamwork and attention to detail.\n\nGood Luck\n\nRTC Link:\nhttp://www.nstc.navy.mil/rtcgl/
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first you must take a written test the if you do well enough on that then they will send you to MEP's which is a physical test they will check you from stem to stern if you are healthy enough then you will be sent to boot camp there you will be treated as if you were not even human but it is a good thing becuase by the time you finish boot camp you will feel stronger than you ever have or will. stay the course and don't give up. you thank your self later in life.  SEMPER FI!!!!
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Firstly, get physically fit. Normal fitness is the absolute minimum, but in addition to that, you need to look at a few things that you would not normally do. Wear\n a backpack. Carrying a backpack requires practice to get used to and nothing else you could do can substitute for actually doing it. Put some weight in the backpack. I would suggest about 10 - 25 kgs. \nToughen up your feet. You will be wearing boots which are not "sneakers", and wearing boots is a lot tougher on your feet than you can imagine. It is a pretty good idea to start trying to run and excercise in boots. You can try using Methylated spirits; rub a little onto your feet every day. \nTake nylon woman's stockings with you. Wear them under everything ie put them on first then your socks and boots. They will help you to avoid blisters. If you wear them all the way up to your waist, then they will help you to avoid chafing between your legs as well. \nTake a lot of Asprin with you. Half a tablet taken each morning will help to ease the normal aches and pains that you will experience. (Check of you are allowed to do this.. I am no expert on what the US military will or will not allow).\nIgnore "folk-lorish" advice like "Never volunteer". You are signing up to become an Officer. You need to get used to the fact that you should be a leader, and leaders need to lead. Sometimes this means volunteering. Just choose as best you can what you volunteer for. This can sometimes be difficult as DIs are notoriously clever at making things difficult, but they notice things like willingness and good attitudes and this will stand you in good stead. \nBe prepared to "eat soup with a spoon". By this I mean that a lot of the things that you will be required to do and learn will seem incredibly foreign to what you consider to be normal or even reasonable, but baring truly sadistic or immoral behaviour, be prepared to do things without understanding the reasons why you are asked to do them. \nMake a friend quickly once you are assigned to your training platoon. Best if this is the person who sleeps next to you. Work together with this person on personal tasks like cleaning boots, making your bed, cleaning your rifle etc. Helping someone else learn is the fastest way to learn to do it yourself.\nDisengage your normal inclination to look for reasons for people's actions and the things you are required to do. A lot of the things that you will have to do will appear to be completely against all logic or reason. This might in fact be the case, and the test is to see what your attitude is or to test your ability to lead others in a task that has no apparent purpose.\nWork on your fear of heights. Everyone has a fear of heights, but most people are able to supress that fear to accomplish a task. You might need to work on this more or less than other people, but it is a good idea to be prepared to for example, climb over an obstacle. \nWork together as a team with those around you. One of the primary objectives of Basic Training is to form a group of individuals into a group that will work together to achieve a common objective. This will be observed and tested. \nPrepare yourself to follow orders. This can be more difficult than you expect. During basics, you can be pretty sure that there will be very few instances where you actually have to think at all about whether the order is a legal one or not, but be aware of the possible abuse of power. You might be tested on your ability to discern the difference between a legal order and an illegal one, but this should be made pretty clear to you at the time,\nRead as widely as you can about the military and military life. Ask questions like this and read the answers. Select the ones that that other veterans agree with. \nDon't fuss or worry. Prepare yourself as best as you are able. The POINT of Basic Training is to turn you into a soldier. You are NOT expected to arrive there knowing everyt
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LOTS of hard work.  Boot Camp is designed to break you down and build you up to be the marine that they want you to be.
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two things. first, raise the intensity of your cardio sessions. excersising is based on forcing your body to adapt to a higher workload. if you already walk alot, and arent really pushing yourself in the gym, to your body is just more of the same, and you wont get results. you have to force it to adapt to something new. second, lift weights. you arent going to put on any unsightly bulk by accident, believe me. you will however increase your musculature, and that will burn fat even during rest periods. third, drink vast amounts of water.  our bodies are 75% water, so we tend to retain. people are in an almost perpetual state of mild dehydration. you should be throwing back about 3/4 of a gallon a day in just water.  check out this sight www.crossfit.com. dont be intimidated by the excersizes, take your time to get to know the motions. believe me, i tried it for three months and am in better shape than i was after boot camp. lastly, get a parter. someone to inspire you, to compete wiht, to make this fun.  good luck! \n(if you need more specific advice, email me savgbst@yahoo.com)
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I would start running .5 miles every other day and increase it for awhile, ask your recruiter. Start push-ups practice with a few at a time and every other day do as many as you can many times of the day. One day run, next day push-ups. Get a freind to help you and you will do fine. Good luck.
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the good old push-up and sit-up till you drop routine. works for every military man in the world, why not you?\nthere are several ways to vary the work outs, but really they are all the same, do them till you drop and GET BUFF!
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Start eating less and running at least 8 miles a day.  Thats what you be doing in the marines.\n\nCoach
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Eat a lot of proteins and do push ups.  Every night set a goal of a number of push up (32 Army minimum) and once you reach it do one more than the night before.\n\nhttp://www.bodybuilding.com