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Passed Prc 26th sept

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Passed Prc 26th sept

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Hi guys anyone need some advice on the Prmc give me a shout.
Met loads of cool dudes and ate a lot of food. Best part was laughing a lot and the worst part was needing a pee when getting beasted. oooOOooo and knees are a bit sore!!!
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Hi,
Congratulations on passing! when do you start basic? I've got my PRMC on 29th october, could do with all the advice you've got!
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hi dave bet your getting stuck into training now.
Give me a clue on your state of fitness and i will
try to give you some good pointers on training methods..
Also if you would like me to answer any specific questions
i will also.. Cheers Cheers 8)
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Hey!

Firstly I'd like to say congratulations! Secondly What are realistic fitness aims before the PRMC? I hear most people underestimate the requirements and I want to make sure I get it right first time. I go for my PRMC 18th November. Any help would be appreciated.

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well you have six weeks from now.. Serious training..

Mine is as follows..

Cardio-vascular
6 mile runs 5 times a week with lots of big hills. I beasted myself on 2 of the 5 runs (usually after my rest days).


Body conditionining 4 x a week as follows
4 x as many marine style press ups as you can do (even when your arms drop off you can usually do about 8 or so more)

1 x 80 sit ups marines style as fast as you can + 3 x 50 (sit ups normal, crunches and raises)


3 x as many overarm pull ups as possible form is very important..[/u][/color][/color]

I practiced holding press ups in the stress positions too this helps as they will make you hold them when you are hanging out during the warm ups (UPPPP!!! HOLD!!!! DOWN HOLD!!!)
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i've been following the training schedule they give you for about 14 weeks now. I can do the max stated push ups etc, I'm just not sure what to expect when i get down there?!
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Dave I personally found the bottom field warm up the hardest thing at lympstone.. It is a lot of sprinting, crawling (lots of sprinting and Crawling), marking time, stress positions press ups sit ups squats squat thrusts..
The only way i can see to train for this mate is to do circuit training at a local leisure centre and beasting yourself during the hour... (not working out with the fitest bird in there and looking at her ass for a whole hour.. Clock her at the start and buy her a stella after :P )

Personally this is what i am going to work on 3 times a week.. (yeah clocking the fitest bird and staring at her ass all session 8) ...
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Sorry to be nosey but what were your gym test 1 scores?

Many congratulations ph1l :D
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12.9 bleep test

59 press ups
80 sit ups
5 pull ups (slipped)
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Foxtricks congrats !! Good scores there mate! Was the blonde corporal there, the one who looked like Mick Dundee? He was a right bastard!
Waiting around until i can go back to Lympstone.
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yeah he was and he stitched us all up... and gave a lot of the stragglers a lot of gob.. the blonde haired PTI was a bit of a meathead too but fair if you put in the effort :o
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Congratulations Foxtricks.
Your Score's were very good.

How many attended your PRMC and how many passed??
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We had 56 on our PRC and 28 passed

Some didnt make the grade on gym test 1...
Bottom field killed off most of others..
A few failed the run...

One of the guys made his bed on the first night
then left ( :o ) work that one out..
I think a couple were close to passing but were
told to come back in 4 months with a higher level
of fitness..
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did the people who failed on the bottom field get told to leave because they were not detemined enough or because they simply were not fit enough?

also.... did you get many no hopers down there that couldnt even managed 1pull up or did it seem like most people had trained?

sorry for all the questions!

cheers! :D
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Could you tell me about the high wire course - how high? what kind of things were there? and are you safety harnesed in?

thanks - Im rubbish with heights :(

Ph1l

And well done on your scores
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