If you had to quit RM cos of med you might have difficulty getting into Irish defence forces as their med is seriously a pain in the ass strict.

If you had to quit RM cos of med you might have difficulty getting into Irish defence forces as their med is seriously a pain in the ass strict.

From what I have gathered about the ARW is that you need to be a JNCO at least, have shit hot records and be reccommended by your CO. Secondly you only serve a 4 year term before rejoining your original unit so to disperse your skills. They are certainly considered as elite forces well above standar...

Head, shoulders and elbows must touch floor. I didnt practice the head touch and subsequently had 25 su's docked half way though my reps and told to continue with the proper style. Did shite on them subequently. Only good thing is now that i have borken my arm and I cant do pu's i am doing loads of ...

For the pull ups buy a pull up bar in Argos (about a tenner). It screws into your door frame. Coupled with back strengthening excercises with barbell (military presses and nieder presses). In relation to the Ps: - the Military one is 7. ( P roper or prior) p reparation and p lanning p revents p iss ...

Doh I did it in 4:16 with a nice dip in the oggin on the monkey bars. Gave the cpl a laugh when I wit in head first. He wasn't too impressed with the expletives when I surfaced however. That was a biatch as i fell near the end first time round. Second crossing was VERY slow as I was trying to hold o...

Before: 54 Pressups 95 Situps 8 Pullups 3 mi in 18:30 In the Gym test 1 they said as many pressups in 1 minute only so didn't have the two mins to rest after 40. Had to bang out the max without any rest. I did so crap on the situps because my head was not touching the mat when I was in down position...

Basically the pressup punishment thing is doing various forms of ecercises in the pressup position. Pyramids from 10 down on the Cpls beat, bend stretch, holding the position in bend, stretch, etc. Sounds easier than it is but just stick in there. Never quit anything. They will stop the excericise j...

Finished the course but didn't pass unfortunately. :oops: Got 44 Pressups, 58 situps (v poor, ouch), 6 pull ups. 10.7 on the bleep. Bottom field warmup was v hard. I got 4:16 on the assault course but fell at the end of the monkey bars so had to re do obstacle and sprint on whilst soaked which sucke...

Thanks for the help. Yes I have my plane ticket already.

In Eire at the moment so will have to wing it tomorrow morning with the train times and warrant.

Best of luck to the other lads on tomorrow too, see you there!

It's all very exciting you know.

Got my PRMC on Tuesday and have my plane and train warrant. Thing is they recommended taking the air/rail coach link from Heathrow to Reading and then the train to Exeter and another to Lympstone. As far as I remember there is only a tube station at Heathrow. I presume therefore that there is a coac...

Was told I would have to give 4 weeks notice prior to leaving the country the only exception is the first long weekend break when as soon as you arrive at foundation make it known. After a good few months you don't have to give notice anylonger.

Yup, and there is another lad on the site up aswell.

I had the same problem last summer. I thought it was shin splnts but the physio aughed at me as I was running regularly on concrete and playing footie 3 times a week. Solution: Various stretching techniques for the from shin muscles and achilles and running on grass only for a while until legs stren...

I'm 22,

all you young pups have got the advantage of not having soaked ya bones in alcohol every weekend for the last seven year

I hear ya, just about... Will my zimmer frame fit around the assault course?