what are the best exercises to do and foods to eat to get in good physical shape for army boot camp?
410599
Key exercizes: Running and pushups. You'll need endurance and upper-body strength. Maybe some meditation practice to improve your focus and mental strength (though they'll break you anyway).\n\nI'd suggest trying to pack on weight, because they're serously going to make you burn calories. Meat and pasta are pretty clean (I don't trust McD's or BurgerK). Load up on fresh fruit and vegetables, and any of your favorite foods - you'll probably miss them.\n\nGood luck, dude.
877300
sit ups would be the best...but of course you'll also have to eat healthy..try dancing or areobics...its fun and its good excercise.good luck
1010214
The best ones are: \nlunges\nsquats\nLeg lifts with squat push - stand upright, bend your right leg into your out to a straight leg and then squat with a straight left leg then after 20 reps swap over.  \nGlute pulls - you are on all fours on the floor, lift your right leg as far as it can go then pull down, do 10 long then do 20 pulses, swap legs. \n\n\nAlso go to www.bodybuilding.com you even get a pic. Don't forget the best thing to do 2 hours after eating at night is to set yourself up a mini circuit: \n\n50 lunges, 50 squats, 50 push ups, 50 burpies, 50 sit ups, 50 squat jumps, 50 tricep dips. When you get better at it increase reps. Make sure you refer to the site to ensure you execute all exercises correctly to avoid injuries.
8481
When I was in boot camp, our drill instructor (who happened to be a Colorado state high school wrestling champion) gave us a routine that worked great, worked quickly, and didn't require an investment in equipment. It did help to have a second person.\nThe routine requires one person to lay on their back with bottoms of their legs sitting up on a bench, like an ottoman.  \nNow, for two solid minutes, do as many sit-ups as you possibly can.  Try to hit eighty, (if you can, try to hit one hundred).  If there is a second person, they should be holding your legs.\nTake a break of three minutes.  Swap places if you are working out with someone. Let them do the two minute drill.  \nOn the next round, while back in the position, do ten sit-ups as slowly as you can.  Make it real slow.  Try to make it all the way up. \nCycle between those two routines three times.  Your stomach will tighten up in about ten days or so.
56780
Been researching this for a while, as my significant other is trying to lose weight for the army.  The total best healthiest way to do it is to keep a food diary and get a calorie counter book and keep it under 1200 calories a day.  This is like non-sugar cereal with fruit and skim milk for breakfast, tukey sandwich with no cheese or mayo and fruit or a half cup soup for lunch and lean meat with a huge salad for dinner.  It's working for us, at a loss of two pounds per week.  Good luck!
688573
Anyone in the service will tell you "Sit-ups". And not just any sit-ups, make sure you do them right and use varieties in appropriate moderation. For example: The correct sit-up starts with tour legs at a 45 degree angle from the floor and your fingers interlocked behind your head. With your feet held down by something. When you come up your back must make a straight line or your head must come past your knees. Try not to use your leg muscles. \nLets say you can do fifteen of these or so the first day, try doing sixteen the next. But don't use only normal sit-ups, try also rocking left and right as you go up (Rocky sit-ups)about half of these to whatever you do in normal sit-ups should be done. Then try sit-ups without your feet held down, see how much of those you can do. Try all these types every day if you can with short 30 to 1 min. rests in between variables, because your abdominal muscles are the only muscles in your body that do not need a day to rest.\n-Specialist of the Army.\n\nP.S. Do not exercise within an hour of eating.\nP.S.S. Stay hydrated.
837240
Exercise:\n\n1. Jog - as long as you can without making yourself sick or weak and try to increase the distance you run when it starts getting easy\n2. Sit-ups - they work your abs and make you look skinnier\n3. Weights - for every pound of muscle, you burn 30 more calories per day and lift 60% of the maximum weight you can lift\n\nFood:\n\n1. Fruits - yummy and healthy\n2. Veggies - yucky but healthy\n3. Fish - very good for you\n4. Meat - if you like slottering innocent animals, meat is good for you\n5. Tofu - for people who dont like slottering innocent animals\n6. Dairy - 3 low fat servings a day helps reduce stomach fat\n7. NO POP - makes you fat even if it says diet\n8. Avoid Junk Food
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Sit-ups, sit-ups, and more sit-ups.\nTry to keep your diet to 1200 calories a day or less.\nCrunches help, too!\nMy son who is in the Army told me that doing sit-ups 3 or more times/day has really helped him get a "six pack".\n\nI have done the same, myself, when I water-skied at least 3 times a day.\nExercise keeps you from craving high calorie foods which in turn burns the fat and eventually your body shows your muscle under the fat layer.  Diligence and determination are key.  Having a disciplined desire to "win" will make you push yourself to stay on track...to your goals.\n\nIt sounds like you are already exercising your muscles religiously.  Keep it up!  Your "Janet Jackson tummy" will show up sooner than you think.  Keep yourself healthy and strong.  Good luck to you.   :)  I envy your courage.
555002
Eat foods that are high in protein and carbohydrates, these will give the body the energy it needs to help you exercise for longer periods of time.  Eating spaghetti or some other type of pasta is the best way to get carbs into your body.\n  Exercise is the best way for you to "bulk up", start with something simple like walking, jogging then running round your block, then do the same but include going through a park.  Once you can run these courses with ease, throw in a few obstacles for you to jump or climb over.\n  Also try going to the gym.  Most people at the gym are more than willing to help you with your training while your learning, the most important thing to remember is not to expect changes immediately, they will come with time, as will the weight.  Muscle weighs more than fat, you don't want to be a fat kid (unless your a lineman in football), fat kids get bullied more easily because they can't fight back.\n  Take it slow and easy, don't push your body too hard, you will only injure yourself!\n  Good luck kid!  I hope you make it!
863783
drink lots of water and eliminate high calorie foods. if you want a snack or something after school, go for carrots or something. avoid sodas and gatorade, despite what commercials say. water is the best drink. make sure you get plenty of exercise outside of cheerleading, too. have flabby arms? lift weights. have a not so tight tummy? do crunches and leg lifts. not so great legs? running is the best answer. if you like how you look though, don't worry about it. just because you aren't a stick doesn't mean you're not healthy. if you're really concerned, go to your doctor and ask for their advice. hope i helped a bit!
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start eating lean meats, plenty of veggies, salads and fruits\ndrink lots of water, start working out at least 10 min daily\nthis site will help with great ideas workouts\nhttp://about.com/health\nhttp://setyoureyeson.blogspot.com\nhttp://fitnessmagazine.com\nhttp://prevention.com
237016
Do crunches and cardio exercise,and eat right
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There's room for anyone in good shape.  I was in recently but was medically discharged before I could go to Iraq unfortunately.\n\nFirst of all, when you talk to the recruiter, ask him about something called the "trail blazer" during basic training.  They change the name occasionally.  It basically involves being able to max out the AIT PT test at day 1.  You want to do that.\n\nSince you're married, you'll probably want to get a non-combat MOS.  (Although I took a combat MOS because I'm married) Try for something along the lines of supply clerk, mechanic, or something of the like.  Don't worry if you aren't trained, they'll teach you everything.  Mortician is a messy and unpleasant job, but if you can handle, it usually has a great signing bonus.  DO NOT GO 88M!  Those are truck drivers.  They have the highest mortality rate in Iraq and they need everyone they can get.  It sound good and easy, but it's not cool.\n\nSigning bonuses are paid after AIT, as much as 6 months later depending on the MOS.  Married people should stay away from counter intelligence since that could keep you away 10 months out of the year, but it's my number one suggestion for single people.\n\nJust so you know, Basic Training is all about messing with your mind.  When you get on base, just turn your personality off for about 3 or 4 months.\n\nInjuries in the Army.  The Army is mean on this one.  If you get injured during anytime you get handed your orders and taken to the airport and the end of AIT, THEY WILL TRY to pass it off as a prior injury, no matter how stupid.  I saw guys getting general discharge on collapsed arches.  Not a pleasant thing, but I did see an honorable on a hernia.\n\nWell, the first few months are hell, after that, it's sweet.  It's good job, you're taken care of, and if you learn well, you have plenty of potential.  If you go to Iraq, you can still get free college there.  And you should take every opportunity for college credits possible.  A degree means eligibility for officer training and a good position in the army.\n\nAnd finally, make sure you fill out the paper work correctly.  Take your time, especially when calculating income.  Being married, I made more than the lieutenant as a PVT.\n\nIt's a good life, but it is the Army and the Army is about war.  For some reason a bunch of kids these days forget that when they sign the papers.  They think about travel and college and easy money and forget that it's about fighting.\n\nWell, I encourage it and wish you luck.
853163
I would take a militaristic approach, if I were you.  Do a variety of push-ups, pull-ups, and sit-ups.  Also do some running, cycling, and swimming (if you can) to improve your cardiovascular endurance.  If you can afford $15 a month, go to GNC and get a big jug of whey protein to take immediately after working out.  As far as what to wear, just be comfortable.  When I work out at home, I usually just wear athletic shorts with no shirt.
318246
First off, go outside. Go for walks. If you don't like running, go for bike ridees they work wonders. Do ab work outs. Crunches...sit ups..cruches but bringing right elbow to left knee. You will want to do high reps with little weight, unless you are planning on building musscle mass.
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Since you have a year to prepare, you should be in good shape before you leave.  My advice is that you start doing physical training on your own now.  Push ups, sit ups, pull ups, running, weights, and anything else that you can think of to strengthen your body.  If you are physically prepared for Basic, then you will be more able to contend with the mental and emotional abuse that you will suffer.  I would also suggest that you familiarize yourself with firearms early.  Learn how they feel when they go off, how they sound, and most importantly, how different fire arms operate.  Learn to break them down and clean them properly.  If you have this info before you leave, then you will be more prepared when you begin this in basic.  \nLearn to eat fast, and prepare yourself for a three meal, no snack day.  If you are used to eating three meals and two snacks per day you will feel hungry all the time at basic.  If you usually skip breakfast, you will feel weighted down during the morning hours at basic, and find yourself lacking the energy to make it through till lunch.  I also suggest that you learn to eat standing up (the last ones in the lunch room earn kitchen detail), so you will want to go  (with your tray while eating) from the food line to the exit line.  \nNow, of everything that I have said, the most important is the physical aspect.  If you are physically unprepared, you will have a much harder time with basic...\nGood Luck\n\nK
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The fact that I stay physically fit. Eat clean, 5% body fat. In the gym 5 days a week. Teach martial arts 4 nights a week. Outdoor activities are a must.