MilitaryForums.co.uk

I'm trainin really hard for my PRMC but have two weakness's my pull up and my feet, my problem with my pulls is that no matter how many I do I just don't seem to be getting any stronger, I want to go to the PRMC in the best shape that I can and as well prepared but i'm struggling to gain the strength in my back to bang them out, my press up and situps are excellent and I can easy push out 80 of both inside two minutes (touching my training partners fist on each one) but my pull ups are really f@#k me off, I was at the point last week where i'd trained my back so hard I could barely move it but again this week I seem to be back to square one, can anyone help, does anyone have any tips for blisters as well, my feet are killin and I can't remember the last time I ran without blisters for company

right, well firstly for pull ups you want to just train a s you will be tested. Do pull ups (wide overhand grasp) and hold for 4 seconds at the top and bottom, even if you can only do 1 just keep trying and you will soon get there. There are a load of posts of pullups so just use the search button!!
As for blisters, you can use second skin stuff like compeed of those blister rings to take the pressure off, if they are full of liquid then used a sterilised needle or something to take the liquid out, then put a plaster over it. You can toughen the skin of your feet by soaking then in surgical spirit!
Hope Ive been of help to you matey! Use the search button for both of your queries!

Yeah thats brilliant cheers for the help bud. Can't wait to get to PRMC.

Thats good advice but watch the compede's they are not bottom field friendly. I had two POC's and on the first I cocooned my feet in zinc oxide and electrical tape which left my feet in perfect order. On the second I just used the compede's which got wet, wrapped their tits and peeled off helping to rub index finger to thumb sized bleeding holes in my ankles. Good idea about the white spirit; hardens the skin up.

Yep that's right soak them in surgical spirit for an hour or two, turns them into hoofs. Obviously don't do iit if you already have blisters or you'll be pissing yourself in pain.

Should I do that every night ?

Do it to order...What alcohol does is dries out the skin and makes it really tough, so try a few times and see how it goes.

A plaster and a needle is the best way. All other methods only use if money and cause pain.

Pull ups use the bicep muscles mainly. So do some other exercises that work the biceps. Also do the deltoids, triceps, lats, pecs and trapezius. Look at www.bodybuilding.com for some good exercises.

Cheers for all you're help lads i've got the plaster method in practice at the moment but my feet still same the same, i'll give the surgical spirits a try as well, as for the pull ups i'm goin to train as hard as I can and keep pushin out as many as poss

you ar lucky in a way I can do lots of pull-ups (10-15) but pushups are bad like 35-40 max!

I'm in the same boat.

I can do sh*t loads of pull ups (did 2 sets of 20 last night) but press-ups oh deary me. I can do about 50 when fresh but after doing exercise this drops to about 35.

It's quite annoying because i used to be able to do a lot more.

I think the reason i find pull ups easy is because I do a lot of rock climbing. This helps with building up the ability to lift your body weight while at the same time scaring you silly.

dannyrd (wrong spelling probs) glad to hear I dont rock climbing as such but i climb buildings, structures and trees.

bit of advice on the push ups I found one of the best ways to build up your maximum no of pressups is like this

on test day (i.e saturday according to the PRMC fitness schedule) get a stopwatch and rather than just maxing out i.e forty or so then giving up on your set do the follow.

Week one
ten pressups
ten second rest
repeat until two minutes is up
(you'll be surprised how many you get out)
do your situps and then your incline pull ups and then repeat for second and third sets with two to three minutes between sets

Week two
fifteen pressups (you'll find that extra five quite hard by the end of two minutes)
ten second rest
repeat until two minutes is up
continue as week one

Week three (this is where is starts to get really hard and your eye's will burst)
fifteen pressups
five second rest
repeat until two minutes is up
continue as week one

Week four
Twenty pressups
five second rest
repeat until two minutes is up
continue as week one

Week five
Thirty (yes you read right thirty) pressups
five second rest
repeat until two minutes is up
continue as week one

Week six
minimum sixty non-stop
continue as week one

If this doesn't get ya head bursting nothing will, remember press ups are like any other exercise you've got to be pushing yourself and changing your excercise slightly (to stop your muscle adapting and not growing), what I found was that when I get to exhaustion just push out five more no matter how hard they seem you must get them, don't worry about them being the lowest of the low just get as far down as possible and keep ya body straight, I've also chucked things like raised leg pressup, box pressups and now i'm doing some weighted pressups, this stops your body getting used to a single action (this is when your muscles stop growing and you start to find them harder and harder). If only I knew this much about getting people to do pull ups i'd be sorted.

Cheers for that mate, i'll definitely give it a go.

I tend to do my press-ups on press-up 'handles'. These keep your chest further off the floor and as such you have to go down further.

Follow the link below to see what I'm waffling on about (and no, that's not me with the gay hair ).

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/store ... oryId=8194

Does anyone else use these?