Rosstraining is awesome. I just got his Never Gymless book. That assault course is mine

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lodge939 wrote:Weighted squats won't make a bit of difference. Sprints and intervals will, though.

Where did you get that from? Of course they will make a differance.

Running is just CV, what kind of noticeable difference will weighted squats make to your times?

Weighted squats won't make a bit of difference. Sprints and intervals will, though.

Did he get the George Cross and not the VC because reservists are considered civilians?

Doesn't make sense to me since he was on military duty at the time of the act. He should get the VC

A Royal Marine has been killed and another seriously injured when their Land Rover overturned during training in Dorset. Five personnel were in the vehicle when it rolled over during the exercise on Lulworth Firing Range, near Weymouth. No other vehicles were involved in Tuesday's crash, the Minist...

I knew most of the stuff already but I did find out there is usually 1 hour of PT a day.

Hi, can anyone help, My brother has dreamed of being a royal marine all his life but has really bad eyesight can he blag his way into the marines some how and if he does do you think he can make it through a sucessful career?? Thanks Your eyesight doesn't even have to be good. VA3 requires you to r...

davey098 wrote:Hi. Can you pass whilst wearing contact lenses?

Thanks.

They don't allow contacts in training, you have to wear specs. There are different standards of vision you have to pass unaided and aided. The aided standards are higher.

Don't know what I was worried about. Passed with grade 1 eyesight. If you can read a car numberplate across the street you'll have no problems.

Obviously you're 6m away, but the first line of letters is stupidly huge as i remember.

Yeah, your right eye has higher standards but simply to pass it only needs to be <6/60. There are three levels of visual acuity.

I was worried about it but you only need <6/60 to pass according to the letter I have, which is the equivalent of <20/200 according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Snellen06.png/445px-Snellen06.png So if you can read th...

Apparently your body is at its peak at the age of 21.

Could you outline an average training day?

What is ex. running man again? I might give it a try.

edit: oh it's 3 days, nevermind. Is there a pass/fail test to do with weighted running or something?

http://www.baseops.net/basictraining/na ... order.html

The Navy SEALs warning order has a good running progression. Basically, you work up to 30 miles/week and then just try and decrease the times for your 6mile runs.