How long y'all been waiting

[Steve C]

When we arrived there were a set of questions on everyones bunk, history equipment etc, they didn't tell us to fill em out but we did anyway, everyone conferred anyway, all the questions I got asked came from the questionnaire. I wasn't grilled too much on the theory side, some got loads of questions about the corps history , and the interview for others was just the section corporal telling them how they had gotten on so far in the course. It might have just depended who your section corporal was, or maybe your performance so far that influenced the questions and amount asked.

Most of the history questions just consisted of dates of major battle honours like you have listed and who got VCs in them. Know the globe and laurel, and what each part of it means. Just read over everything that's in the booklets they give you and memorise the dates etc. The interview wasn't too stressful, it was perhaps 5-10 mins for me, again it depends, some people were in for less time, some for alot longer.

-Steve C

[Geoff]

the only thing im struggling on is the pressups, i can do 40 maximum, i can do well over 100 sit ups, 15+ pull ups, and the running side is easy.

[Steve C]

I had the exact same prob with pushups, just try to alternate your training, try doing some pyramids i.e. start off with 1 pushup ,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. It doesn't have to stop at ten, go till you think you can't complete the next set, don't go to failure and leave the same amount of times between sets that it took you to do the previous set i.e. if you're on the 4 rep set and you think it took you maybe 3 seconds to do, then leave 3 seconds rest between your next set. I used this instead of just pumping out sets of 30*3 and it broke me through the plateau. If this doesn't work try doing different kinds of pushups, close (hands touching) and wide, or maybe try adding some weight, 10-15lbs. Just don't give up, everyone plateaus in some aspect of their training sometime, you just have to experiment and see what routine works for you. You should be able to tell in 3-4 weeks if your new routine is working. Good Luck!

Here some sites other boards (fitness) that you might be able to get more training info on:

http://www.getfitnow.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi

http://www.dragondoor.com/cgi-bin/tpost.pl

[Geoff]

thanks for those sites, given me some good info on the forums.

and running in this heat is dam hard eh? beasting yourself up a hill.

[Steve C]

Yeah, went out to the beach today for a run. It was cookin so I decided that it would be too easy ,so I put on a rainjacket , trousers and jumpers and went for the run. I was trying to simulate the whole NBC suit thing. I won't do that again soon though, the lifeguards are gettin suspicous .

-Steve C