End of week 21

[tomharto30]

Just popped home for the weekend to catch up on some rest before BPT pass out! which im shitting myself about!

Anyone got any questions, about the first 21 weeks of RT, fire away!

[hobbsy]

Well done mate and good luck with your BPT pass out.
Hows training been so far? What are the best and worst bits?

[tomharto30]

Hard and good. Best bits are phase two, and the worse bits are phase one!lol. When your with your mates everythings a laugh no matter how hard it is or how wet and cold you are, thats why you never want to get a backtrooped, that why I gotta pass BPT!!lol

[hobbsy]

Oh right, what do you have to do for your BPT?

[tomharto30]

Climb the 33ft ropes, once round the assault course in under 5 mins, 200m firemans carry, and a full regain. All this is done wearing 22 lbs and a rifle, so when you do your firemans carry you carry 44 lbs, your mate and two rifles! F***ing hang out!lol

[JCAP3]

Tom, would you say that you feel fully prepared for BPT if you take into account the whole 21 weeks of training? (especially the firemans carries)

I'm crap at firemans carries.

[MrC]

Good luck with the BPT...

Bit of an expansion on JCAP3's question, but have you seen your fitness come far in those 21 weeks? Whenever the training team test you, does it feel like you've been given enough training to be ready for those tests?

Reason I ask is i'm poor at load carrying, i'm trying my hardest to build my core strength but not sure how much this will improve at CTC.

[tomharto30]

The training is progressive, you are getting fitter but so is everyone else, so you don't notice it! Don't expect to suddenly be amazingly fit, the main thing you will develop is not so much fitness but mental strength, you won't realise it but as you go through training they build it into you that you can't give up and your find yourself load carrying, speedmarching, firemans carrying or whatever, and your thinking this is so hard and it hurts but for some reason you look around at all your mates, and you know there feeling the same and you just keep going, you just don't stop and when you do feel like your gonna stop, one of your mates always seems to pull a bag of haribo out of his pocket!!lol, then lives good again!! And I aint even done the hard bit yet!!

Phys never gets any easier, every time you do it, it hurts and its a real hangout, climbing the ropes for the first time in the gym with just my PT kit on feels exactly the same now when Im climbing the ropes on bottom field with all the kit on.

[eddie_2006]

Is there any younger guys in your troop? have any of them got this far in training?

[themattmeister]

How many rope climbs on the BPT pass out?

Good effort on training so far mate, I go into phase two myself monday. I can't wait to put that green belt on.

[tomharto30]

Im only 18, the youngest guy in the troop is only just 17, started training when he was 16 and hes doing fine!! Just one, but its hard with kit on, trust me. You do do more in your build up sessions, they say that bottom field pass out should be your easiest session on bottom field, but I bet its not!!lol. Getting that green belt is a good feeling, after a couple of weeks you want the cap comforter though!!

[tkdvipers]

tom is your training team sgt called sgt Dobson??

[tomharto30]

no mate, why?

[tkdvipers]

Rite gents, I suggest you pin your f**king ears back!!

My sgt always used to say this to us. When I heard it I always thought "here we go, time to run up and down a hill a few hundred times.

I guess its pretty universal in the corps.

[Paulc83]

I would really struggle with the firemans carry. Im only 10 stone and built like a rake!