Whats the best way to train for basic training?
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Run, push-ups. If you are going to an airbprne unit, start doing pull ups. If you can do it, start eating healthy food (not health food store food), like lean meat, vegetables, fruit, and high carb and protein food. Start your runs every other day. If you are a beginner runner, run for five minutes at a slow pace, walk one minute, run again at a slow pace. every other day, do as many push-ups as you can. Sit-ups and crunches every other day. If you have access to a gym, use light weights and the stair master. These worked well for me to get back in shape. The main thing you need to do is work on cardio-respiratory conditioning and endurance-strength conditioning.
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Find a boxing gym in your hometown.  They'll get you trained up.
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practice by doing 100 \npushups,situps and crunches \nper week and by eating right.
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Funk the physical trash. You have to get your mind right...You are going to be pushed to the brink mentally daily. A strong head will get you through basic.\n\nAlso Start running 3 days a week sart out gradually and work your way up to 3 mi. (Standard USMC PFT distance)\n\nAnd if you need to know anymore holla at cha' boy. cconleyjr@yahoo.com\n\n"Pain is weakness leaving the body"\nOOOORAH\nUSMC 4-Life
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I think that one of the best tips is... join a team. This way you will get all the information you need (and from pro) as well as friends to share the long training sessions that are needed.
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Pack light, be the first to get up and the first to get down, stay awake, learn order of rank and insignia asap (NCO's don't like to be called sir as they "work for a living"), eat fast, pay attention to details, only speak when spoken to and speak loudly, bring locks w/ keys (it's easy to forget your combo when your getting yelled at)....as I was informed at basic...only the USMC calls it boot camp....crawl under your rack to tighten up your sheets and dust cover, use foot powder, YOU DON'T HAVE TIME FOR CHICKS....I mean females.... AND THEY JUST GET YOU INTO TROUBLE....go to church even if you don't normally go (it's a nice break from the usual day)....the floor stripper cleans spray paint off the floor esp if there is already a thick coat of wax on the floor, drink lots of water, shallow breaths in the gas chamber, keep your weapon cleaned and oiled (don't forget to wipe off the buffer spring), they give you 2 pairs of boots make sure they are comfortable or it will tear up your feet, don't look around, take notes...it'll help keep you awake.....limit your caffine intake now
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Try the book Marthoning for Mortals by John Bingham.  It has lots of helpful advice and training plans for beginners.
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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. \n\n- Learn to dribble while keeping your head up. If you have to keep your head down and watch the basketball while dribbling, you aren't going to be able to see what your teammates or the defense is doing. You'll only see what's directly around you, not the whole floor, and it'll be hard to create or know what to do. Learn to dribble without actually having to look down while doing so. Crouching down makes it easier to do this.\n\n- Learn to dribble with both hands. It's hard to get equally comfortable dribbling with either hand, you'll almost always have one hand that's much easier for you to dribble with, but work to at least be comfortable dribbling with your weak hand, too. It'll make it a lot easier to create and finish moves, and it'll be harder to steal the ball from you.\n\n- Dribble with your fingers, not your palm.\n\n- Practice shots while you dribble. Learn to incorporate getting your shots off with the actual dribble moves that make them easier to do.\n\n- Remember, passing the ball is quicker than dribbling it.
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stretch, then  go 3 minutes skipping,1 min abs, 3 min jump rope,1min abs, 3 min moutian climbers,1 minute rest/stretch, 3 min jump jacks,1 min abs,3 mtn climbers, rest/stretch\nthen shadow box for a while. every other day run. \ndrink lots of water,eat fish ,chicken.vegtables try to make sure what ever you eat is either baked, boiled or broiled.\nonce a week pig out BUT ONLY ONCE A WEEK if your not pigging out that day treat yourself to some cocktails only clear liquid alchohol though and only clear liquid mixers as well .its one or the onther though you cant get twisted that week if your eating gyros and fries on your freeday vice versa applies.\nremeber your not justraining your body your also training your mind; to go further,get stronger,fight hard and work hard! its a lifestyle  at first a little painful and it takes getting used to but youll feel like james bond one day im telling you. welcome to the world of gentlemen
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Well if its anything like Army basic training you won't get a lot of time to eat so don't be picky. Take what you're given, scarf it down and try not to get noticed. Make sure you drink a lot of water, you won't be allowed pop, you may or may not get juice and milk (in our basic we had to drink at least one glass of water before getting juice or milk). Generally chow halls serve some kind of meat with a starch and a vegetable, its all normal American food, maybe not the tastiest or best cooking, but you're not going to get weird food you've never seen before most likely. For breakfast its bacon and scrambled eggs, maybe sausage, hashbrowns, maybe pancakes. The first few weeks of basic I got pretty much about 4 minutes from the time I sat in my seat to the time the drill sergeants were yelling at me to throw my stuff away and get out of the chow hall. Learn to eat quickly! A good trick I saw a lot of guys do was to grab a few slices of bread and cram those down, at least you feel full for a little while. Also, if you ever get  night when the chow hall puts on a big spread like steak and lobster etc (it happens sometimes) and the drill sergeants let you all eat your fill be very suspicious! Chances are you are going to go straight from the chow hall to physical training and work out until you all puke. Good luck!
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Thanks for anwsering my question now I will anwser yours.\nI have been in the Army for 6 years now. What is your MOS? (job title) Im a 11B Infantryman. \n\nWhat to bring. Well when I went I was told to bring all kinds of crap and ended up not needing it. \n\nGet a nice new pair of running shoes try and brake them in before you go.\n1-2 towels/washcloths. Basic Hygene kit, razors, 1 can shaving cream, tooth brush/paste, None brakable mirror, fingernail clippers WITH NO FILE, and q-tips. \n\nDO NOT BRING knifes, files, pocketwatches. ect..... anything that you think they might take from you they probably will. NO sharp objects... you get the picture. \n\nUnless they changed it over the last 6 years you will get a debit card that has $300.00 (of your first pay check of course that can only be use at the PX store on base) So you will be able to buy more crap that you think you will need when you get there. \n\nAs far as if your in shape or not. If your not in shape now dont worry about it cause you will be by the time you are finnished. When I joined I was 210 .lbs I came out at 150! 4 years later gained it back lol beefcake! Anyways, here are some pointers. If you have a temper learn to keep your mouth shut. Learn quickly what your are tought. If a drill Sgt tells you to do something do it good and as fast as you can. If you fck up alot you will stick out more and they will make your life more of a living hell as they can. I have heard that Basic training has gone soft comparied to what I or thoughs before me went through, not as much yelling and crap. When you get deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan remember what you have been taught and if there is someone in your unit that has been there before get with them and ask as many questions as you can. Learn your job!  \n\nPlease email me and let me know what your MOS is and I will try and give you an idea of what you are in for alittle more. \n\nOh yeah and when you get in ask about the Rakkasans\nwe are the craziest unit there is. \n\nHave fun and good luck
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well the army just isnt the best. i mean their physical training and mental training isnt as hard as most other branches. however they have a MUCH easier boot camp now. but if i were you, being from iraq, ild show your families and americans that you have the power to be the best, join marines or something like that. and if you have to join the army go into airborne.\np.s. please dont turn out to be a terrorist, my mom would kill me.
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Circuit training on weight machines every other day with track or jogging on the off-days.\n\nVery careful attention to diet -- very low fat diet with virtually zero refined sugar\n\nget to 100 situp every morning nonstop and 100 each evening nonstop\n\nRecommend regular distance cycling or lap swimming\n\nRecommend a trainer if you can afford it \n\nRecommend some mental discipline --yoga? karate? judo?
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First, before you go have it in your mind that YOU WILL NOT EVER GIVE UP! That's what is going to get you throuh.  Rememberthat Basic Training isn't really as hard as it is going to seem like and millions of other American Soldiers have completed the training.  You can get through it- you just have to keep trying and keep a positive additude.  Never quit when you feel like quitting, and you will have times when you feel like quitting.  Erase from your brain that quitting is even an option.  Your mental and emotional state needs to be solid before you get to Reception- it will help everything else fall into place.  Leave your relationships back home on a good note; try not to levae any unfinished business that you'll have to go back to. It will only make you worry about other things when you need to concentrate on training.\nOnce you get that prepared. . . .\nRun, Run, Run, Run, do push- ups and sit-ups, and then run some more.  Most females have the toughest time with push-ups and running, so make sure that you are as prepared as you can be. That being said, you will still get smoked, no matter how good of a shape you can work yourself up to, the Drill SGTs will push you harder.  Remember that this is a good thing and take something from it- teh Drill SGTs will make you better than you thought you could be, if you let them. This will be a chance for you do to things that you never expected and will teach you that your limits aren't as low as you thought the were.  Overall, it's a positive experience; one that you can be glad of.  Try to enjoy the challenges, but take them seriously- you will probably have to use what you learned someday soon.  \nI'd advise keeping your hair at least long enough to pull it back into a bun.  Shorter hair requires constant maintence to keep it within the regulations, and you won't have much time for that, and you don't want o have to worry about a dozen bobby pins every day. Don't expect long showers, or many chances to shave your legs either, but you'll get used to it, and make the time if it's important to you.  Good luck!\nOh- one last thing- start getting used to drinking lots of water!
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stick with the basics.\n\npush ups, crunches, and running/walking.
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The same as you run for active duty.  Basic training for the Army (active, NG, and Reserve) is the same.  \n\nDaily Physical Training (PT) involves increasing body strength and physical endurance.  You will start by doing a PT test (APFT) and this will show your Drills where you stand.  Then your PT will be adjusted to bring you slowly up to standard.\n\nYou will, initially, run at a slow pace for 2 miles.  As the time progresses and your endurance increases, this will also increase to where you can run, SLOWLY, for 5 miles.  The 2 mile run will be run at a quicker pace.
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AF Basic is longer now than when I went through, but its still probably similar.\nThe best advice I can give you is keep your head down. The longer your TI doesn't know who you are the better. Help other people out, no one can get through basic by themselves. In the begining your TI will test everyone to see who can and can't handle stress, so the first time he gets in your face just stand at attention, strair strait forward. \n\nPS learn this: Sir, Trainee (last name) reports as ordered!\nThat's a reporting statement. If you get that down you'll save yourself a bunch of trouble.\n\nGood job on joining!