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Do different kinds of press-ups (on knees, arms wide, marine-style etc), do crunches for stomach instead of / as well as situps (crunches focus more on your actual abs instead of bringing in your quads and legs, I thought they were weak and female before I actually tried them, done properly they are actually harder than situps), and add pull-ups and incline pull-ups (lying down, lift yourself up to a bar approx 1 meter above you).

For building extra muscle endurance, try to find an exercise which tires your muscles without putting any weight on them - I do kung fu pyramid punches, essentially punching straight out from the waist but without any power behind it; do 1 punch x 10, 2 x 10, 3 x 10, 4 x 10 etc up to 10 x 10, then down again; aim is to do the 10 x 10 to the same speed as the 1 x 10, like the bleep test, so don't start too fast. Do these at the beginning of each circuit, and your arms will already be knackered before you start the actual weight exercises. This, at least for me, seems like pretty good preparation for the kind of beasting I hear you recieve before having to do gym tests for the Paras, RM and so on.

when i joined i was not the fittest person in but the thing that you must have is the metal atitude, you will have the best DS that you will ever hope for and give them 100% and they WILL GET YOU FIT, just remember run in boots and with weights make your training as real as you can. It is no use practicing doing your BFT in trainers and shorts when you will get a shock when you are in your DMS and lightweights! If you can get yourself some old 58 from the army surplus, and a nice bergan and try out loads, and how to secure it. This part of the training was the biggest learning curve and the most painfull for me!