Fat produces about 20 times the amount of energy(ATP) compared to carbohydrates, it just requires 20% higher oxygen supply to be able to obtain it.

In my experience HRM have benifitted me greatly, as they have the benifits of a tread mill, in that by keeping at a certain HR this can act slightly like a speed dial. They can also be used to train your self into the next level of your fitness, by say each week, try and average your HR of a run a f...

If you are wanting see running benifits quicker for endurance/stamina, increase your anerobic/sprint training this actually gains aerobic levels of fitness faster than working aerobically, however the benifits of this training is lost much quicker if you stop training, than would be if your aerobic ...

Just went for a run on my local beach (10m away :) ) and a rocket fizzed past me. Luckily, it exploded quite a few yards away, but i still shat my self. Now it wouldn't surprise me if i was a moving target for whoever launched it, however i was all in black so practically invisable in the dark. So w...

That's an amazing score if you haven't done any press ups for half a year! You must have been able to do about a 100 before you're injury? Good luck with your training, i hate when i have an injury which leaves you scared of running incase it comes back :evil: , i got a little niggle in my hip(which...

Well a couple of factors, first of all the prolonged date of entry by 1 year. The fact that i just want to be a Royal Marines Commando, so the earlier the better, also i see my self as "one of the lads" instead of career ladder motivated person. And at the end of the day if i need to i alw...

Yes i did, i got an AIB date for January, but i've decided to go as a recruit, and should start RT by then if all goes well.

I personnally run once or twice a week in boots, only on softer surfaces, never on the road at the moment, i used to get brusied feet, so stuck to grass and sand, to avoid the annoying days off from injury( like i have at the moment grr.).

Lucky bastard, if you don't have to do it, but i do!

I'm actually looking forward to my PRMC, i enjoyed POC so would be nice aswell, to get back in the swing of things, and meet some people who i would proberly start RT with, before hand.

Fogarty, just don't do what i did, when i first applied for the Marines, i said i might go to university, so my application was for a bursuary. My POC was about 6/7 months later, and by then i had decided not to go to university, but i failed to mention that to anyone, and didn't realise i was still...

Right, i have this injury at the moment, its on the top of my hip, i'm going to see my GP next week about it, but i have a feeling there isn't anything he can do about it, as the injury is nothing really( like when you hurt your armpit/ chest after some press ups, but its fine a day or two later). I...

I couldn't tell you that, i've only done POC,(maybe the fact that i only stayed in the officers mess) its just what i got told as a reason for me having to do PRMC, i can't see it being physically any harder than POC so seems a reasonable answer, if not a tad unfair.

I think his knowledge is not upto date( EX -WO1). When i was on my POC this question came up, whether you would have to do PRMC, for people in our situation. The answer the captain gave was that you would, this wasn't the case untill recently, however they told us that you're treated a hell of a lot...

Too true jcap3, especially when you have gravity against you, on the short arse end of the pole, also when you weigh a stone less than everyone else for the fireman's carry.

Yeah, I'm sticking to the sand religiously for all my sprint work. Just doing one session a week, sprinting up and down sand dunes. As you've said it is obviously a soft surface, so i do these sessions in my boots, which i believe doubles the advantage of sand, sprinting on them is harder than on ha...