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jstagg wrote:Go for it, swimming, running do it all and do it hard it will all pay off in the long run.

Well I have got myself a membership at my local gym.

Went yesterday and went for it, paying for it today, aiming to go once every 2 days.

Aiming to be able to start running to the gym (approx 1/2 a KM) comfortably at a reasonable speed and doing the machines there and then start to progress onto timed running round and about.

Yep Thats right don't do it everynight though because you will only burn yourself out

I thought personally Gym's were a waste of money, especially the one i did use, i found it more rewarding training out in gods green earth, especially the running. my fitness as slipped slightly i think as the past 2-3 weeks i been decorating and d.i.y'ing until the later hours of the night and starting again in the small hours of the morning.

kev101 wrote:Yep Thats right don't do it everynight though because you will only burn yourself out

Woke up again with no chance of doing some work down at the gym or I will just end up worse.

Think my legs are a bit better so may take jstagg's advice and go for a jog .

Yeah jog's a good idea, jog for a long distance to work on stamina, then work on speed it's what i done and it went well

jstagg wrote:Yeah jog's a good idea, jog for a long distance to work on stamina, then work on speed it's what i done and it went well

Just had a nosey on google maps and i have a nice country lane with some hills thats exactly 0.5 miles long just down the road so going to give that a go.

Trying to find out how long it is apporximately from the completion of your BARB test till the ADSC, any idea?

It's different for every person, i had to wait 3 weeks, it lasts two days. any ideas on what you want to join?

jstagg wrote:It's different for every person, i had to wait 3 weeks, it lasts two days. any ideas on what you want to join?

Going by http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/, I like the sound of :

Armourer
Vehicle Mechanic
Ammunition Technician

The recruitment officer said to me we could have a chat about jobs once I had completed my BARB to see what I liked the sound of.

Eek seems I have to get my fitness up to standard quite quickly then.

Yeah it doesn't take too long for any one to build there fitness up, good choice of jobs. I'm not sure what the run time for those jobs at ADSC would be, maybe over 12 minutes apart from the run ADSC is the same through out.

jstagg wrote:Yeah it doesn't take too long for any one to build there fitness up, good choice of jobs. I'm not sure what the run time for those jobs at ADSC would be, maybe over 12 minutes apart from the run ADSC is the same through out.

Having a look at this ADSC DVD now, seems quite good but quite hard .

Mixture of looking forward to it and dreading it .

There's nothing to it really mate, it's a quick taste of army life thou many people who've done it and joined say it's nothing like.

It's really easy, even the run thou for me i sucked ass at it because i got a stitch on the first part and was in agony but still made it with in my time.

don't listen to any one on here who says dressing smart doesn't count, it does a chap. a chap i know from the site who attended adsc was failed because he went to his final interview in a track suit because some lad maybe got lucky and said 'It doesn't matter at all' though the chap should have used hsi intellegence.



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Revised my English.

jstagg wrote:There's nothing to it really mate, it's a quick taste of army life thou many people who've done it and joined say it's nothing like.

It's really easy, even the run thou for me i sucked ass at it because i got a stitch on the first part and was in agony but still made it with in my time.

don't listen to any one on here who says dressing smart doesn't count, it does a chap i know from the site who attended adsc was failed because he went to his final interview in a track suit.

he went in a tracksuit to the final interview lmao
thats awful i wouldnt even do that in civvy street

jstagg wrote:There's nothing to it really mate, it's a quick taste of army life thou many people who've done it and joined say it's nothing like.

It's really easy, even the run thou for me i sucked ass at it because i got a stitch on the first part and was in agony but still made it with in my time.

don't listen to any one on here who says dressing smart doesn't count, it does a chap i know from the site who attended adsc was failed because he went to his final interview in a track suit.

Yeh saw that on the DVD, will definatly try make an impression with my attitude and dress etc.

Fitness is still the main worry I think. I do have plenty of free time just need to go about it right.

Thanks for all the help by the way.

Not a problem, hope my first post didn't give you the wrong impression i just think its cool when people join the site and the military.

Well a little update

Literally just back from my barb test which i passed with a score of 83.

Meaning I can go for the job ive decided upon with is Armourer .

All looks good for now, more fitness and this stack of medical forms to sort out.