PARAS!!!!!!!!!

[Wannbe_Para]

Hi everyone my fist post so here goes. I really really want to get fit enough to join the Para's its my life ambition went to my AFCO yesterday and I realize how fit I need to get which is very lol. At the min I can only do 12 Press-ups (please dont laugh) lol and 0 Pull-ups I reliase I have a long way to go. I have just started running 1.5 milers and getting 12 mins I know bad again but I'm determined to see the times drop each time I do it. Ive also just started the "One Hundred Push Up Program" & the "Two Hundred Sit-Up Program" & the "Twenty Pull Up Programme" started these monday (my weekly routine is below. Can you please tell me if what I am doing is good enough to get me fit also I do two 1.5 milers a week and one long one how long shluld the long one be? Also how many press-ups, Sit-ups, Press-ups should I be able to do and how fast before I go to ADSC & depot? I want to join the paras but......I'm scared of heights were any of you before you joined? Also when you first start a depot what are the first pt lessons like and everthing else? is it same as the rest of the infantry then after few weeks kicks into rough tough para stuff? sorry for the long post what I'm doing each week is listed below Thanks loads everyone.

Workout For Army & To Burn Fat

Monday
• Morn - Run (1.5 mile)
• Gym – Cardio & Gym Workout & Swim

Tuesday
• Morn –Hill Sprints & Bodyweight Circuit
• Gym – Cardio & swim

Wednesday
• Morn – Run (3-6 mile)
• Gym – Cardio & Gym Workout & Swim

Thursday
• Morn – Hill Sprints & Bodyweight Circuit
• Gym – Cardio & Swim

Friday
• Morn – Run (1.5 Mile)
• Gym – Cardio & Gym Workout & Swim

Sunday
• Morn – 12 Mile Bike Ride
• Gym – Legs & Cardio & Swim


1. swim 100 laps when swimming
2. After run go on boxing bag, and skip

[MrC]

You should probably include a rest day or two in there somewhere.

[joe9843]

yeah your right there M rc your going to burn yourself out if you train like that mate, rest is just as important as training!

[gunner75]

first off how old are you? id imagine the lack of upper body strength suggests you are under 16?? which is very common.

Bin the programme its useless and yes you will burn out and get no where fast following it.

you need a mixture of short fast paced runs(1.5m - 4mile)
hill work/sprinting/firemans carries
longer steady paced runs (6m - 13mile)

only upper body you really need to add are press ups and pull ups
do these in sets of say 3. Each set do what you can,every day, then as you get stronger increase the reps in a set. So, for example, pullups, start on 1 pull up x 3 sets every day for a week. Rest up week end then following week try 2 pull ups - so on so forth.

lay off sweets and crap food. get loads of carbs into your system and drink loads. and try and get more shut eye than usual.

hope it helps.

[paraprep1]

i did a similair programme to that before xmas with loads of speed training and limited rest, after 3 weeks i got severe shin splints and couldnt training for my selection which i have to try again thanks to that. learn from my mistake and tone that completely down, no offence but as im sure your aware your fitness is poor and as a result your body will struggle to cope with that work load especially with the two workouts a day, so set out a programme that improves steadily incuding 3-4 runs a week including 1 speed session and a 1.5miler bft (including the warm up run), 1 or 2 circuit training sessions per week improving your strength all over, plus one easy swim, no more than 30- 40 mins long you should have two rest days per week really, but 1 rest day is acceptable as long as you take everything as a gradul improvement. once you get used to this work load after about 3 weeks you can tone it up again and start to include two workouts a day about twice a week but no more. remember theres no going back from injury just as iv learned the hard way! if you want some really good info get the 'fighting fit' book by adrian something or rather off amazon, that has everyhting you need to know in there!

i hope this post has helped you mate!

[Wannbe_Para]

Thnaks everyone great help. I'm 17 (I know embarrasing) but I've neve really done anything other than mess about with my mates but I really want to change me & my lifestyle & be a paratrooper. going to make a new programme now. Could anyone help me make a new programme for weights in the gym please want it to help in getting me stronger if possible I was think light weights hi reps?

Cheers everyone.

[Scouse_liam]

Stop saying it embarassing mate!!! I can rember i couldnt do 1 press ups and now i can do a circuit were i go 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10. I was always the skinny one and the lad who was always known as the non tough one!! But am tellin you now, that i have built up a bit and could easily smack the arses of all the so called bad boys rnd here!! I start depot para in 3 weeks on sunday and i know am going to give 150% and hopefully that will get me through. What am trying to say is mate that you can do anything you want, if you give it your all!! Goog luck kidney

[Doc]

You could always be a wobbly Para and go RP or something

[Wannbe_Para]

Scouse_liam thnaks for that mate.

[joe9843]

This is the circult that i have been doin for the last 2 month an my fitness levels have shot right up, monday + thursday. sprint training, 8 x 400 metre sprints, with 2 minute rest intervals, followed by a press up, sit up, pull up circuit. ( i do four circults of these till i carnt do no more ). tuesday + friday 4 km run at a steady speed, followed by 8 km on the bike, then finished with the upper body ciruit as above, wednesday, sat, sun rest days. hopes this guides you in the right direction mate, good luck !

[_Mark_]

Hi bud, if your immediate goal is general fitness, see if your local gym offers cicuit training classes, if you can get to one between 3-4 times a week you will be doing well.

I used to be rubbish at pull up's too, i bought a chin up bar from argos, wacked it in my bedroom doorframe and everytime i went in or out the room i would do as many as i could. That one worked for me.

[Wannbe_Para]

Can I also just ask what is the start of the 28 weeks like? I mean what are the first pt lessons like? do they build you up or are you straight into the heavy stuff? & how far are the first runs? & throughout your 28 weeks how many times do/did you run a week? Also when your not doing pt what are you doing? & last his it just pt that makes people drop out?
Thanks so much for reading again all the info so fas as been top notch cheers lads.

[paraprep1]

Can I also just ask what is the start of the 28 weeks like? I mean what are the first pt lessons like? do they build you up or are you straight into the heavy stuff? & how far are the first runs? & throughout your 28 weeks how many times do/did you run a week? Also when your not doing pt what are you doing? & last his it just pt that makes people drop out?
Thanks so much for reading again all the info so fas as been top notch cheers lads.

im no expert as im not in training yet, so someone such as sandy or paratrooper01 would be most helpful to ask mate.however i believe iv heard the training is all progressive, they build you up gradually through runs and circuit training (and im sure the frequent beastings!), theres no point asking how far you will run everyday day because im sure it will vary all the time.in terms of people dropping out im sure many people have other reasons than pt, just remeber it is designed to be tough and painful, nothing will be easy, everything is an assessment of your ability physically and equally mentally, as long as you arrive in depot with these things in mind and put 100% in everything you will pass (baring injury)! but as i say iv nothing personally to show for this advice so dont just take my word on this!