Just made a fitness program. Wanting some feedback.

[sully26]

a few adjustmants to your progam mate- you want to do as many hill sprints/ normal sprints as much as possible, with 2 runs a week in it ( 3-5 mile runs aiming for a personal best everytime) neva stop between reps jog on the spot as a resting period. always do press-ups, pull ups and sit ups till you cant do anymore then some more. do that about twice a day.even it your max press up's seem to go down when u have a rest you will see the difference

[euro_andrew]

Cheers Sully. thats awesome.

I was ment to do my PB 4 miler again tonight but had to scrap that. I almost fainted yesturday on the treadmill from being so tired and sick.
I have tryd to do some hill sprints but where I am there is like no hills just slopes.

Thanks Flo!

lol Im resting up with a hot drink and reading a few new Royal marine books my Gf bought me today!

"Amongst the Marines" by Steven Preece and "Royal Marine Commandos: The Inside story of a force for the future" by John Parker.

Great reads so far! bit scared about the midnight shakes once your a Royal marine green!

[Ste Preece]

Midnight shakes wouldn't be tollerated these days. They happened after the Falklands War, unfortunately I fell victim to that. But in all honesty, I never ever saw that happen again after the early 80's. Perks of the aftermath of war I guess!!

Read the sequal to Amongst The Marines, it'll show you a lot of determination and vigour to succeed. Writing it, like my first book, was a great therapy for me.

When you make the grade as a bootneck, you won't want to change places with anybody in the world. And I mean anybody. Even after you leave the Corps, your grit and determination will stay with you forever.


All the best guys



Steve

[mfat_man]

Even after you leave the Corps, your grit and determination will stay with you forever.

Steve

This is generally true of any mob training, where you are pushed beyound your comfort zone and realise you have the ability to do more things than you were capable of.

Even for a humble STAB like me

[euro_andrew]

Ste Preece: Im halfway through you book at the moment. Is it really true the amount of fights you had? You seemed to have problems with alot of the people you came across.

Also what are your thoughts on the new PRMC testing?

Thanks for posting mate.

Andy

[Ste Preece]

My outlook on life changed after my violent inception at the start of my career. I changed from easy going and amiable to hard and unforgiving. Although I don't really blame anybody for this. I took my retribution some time later!

At that time I made the decision that I would never back down from violence again and believe me, I never.

Yes I had hundreds of fights. In truth, a whole lot more than I wrote about, but I couldn't recall everything and wrote about the one's I chose to remember.

There were others like me. At that time it came with the territory.

The civvies at home were also a pain in the butt and always wanted to try their fighting skills out on me. I didn't relent and soon they learned to leave me be.

Although I have a very violent past I have no regrets. What we did we did and that's the end of that. However, that said, my years in the Corps were some of the very best years of my life and I have some great memories from then.

Looking back, I wish I had had more self control, because I really was out of control and most probably very lucky to get away with a lot of the things I did get away with.

After I left the Corps, it took me 13 1/2 years to leave that frame of mind behind and eventually it was Ninjutsu that calmed the fire that burned inside me.

http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk ... 14137.html

We learn from our mistakes and I hope people can learn from mine.

Masaaka Hatsumi (Ninja GrandMaster) was once asked a question which was:

What would you do if a sniper was going to shoot you?

His answer was, "I wouldn't be there."

These were great words. I learned from this. I needed to take myself off centre stage and into the unseeable shadows of the crowd. That's were I stand today and believe me. Its fantastic. Just another face in the crowd.

I'm not familiar with the new PRMC, but if its been re-devised I'm sure it has an important purpose.

MFAT_Man: I agree with you, wholeheartedly.

Cheers


Steve