APFT Score - Personal Motivation
- JoeDGrinder
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APFT Score - Personal Motivation
Hello, so I am posting this as a personal motivator for myself to improve my PT and also, in the hopes of receiving any help and advice from the Rangers or others on this site to improve my fitness. I have 6 months or so until I will be attending OSUT and I want to be scoring over a 270 on the APFT before then. I will be posting my APFT scores every week as a motivation to myself to improve, so without further adieu my first scores
Pushups: 7
Sit Ups: 42
2-mile Run: 20:07
APFT: 43 (I believe was the score)
See you all in a week.
Pushups: 7
Sit Ups: 42
2-mile Run: 20:07
APFT: 43 (I believe was the score)
See you all in a week.
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Re: APFT Score - Personal Motivation
Maybe twice a month would be a better format?JoeDGrinder wrote:Hello, so I am posting this as a personal motivator for myself to improve my PT and also, in the hopes of receiving any help and advice from the Rangers or others on this site to improve my fitness. I have 6 months or so until I will be attending OSUT and I want to be scoring over a 270 on the APFT before then. I will be posting my APFT scores every week as a motivation to myself to improve, so without further adieu my first scores
Pushups: 7
Sit Ups: 42
2-mile Run: 20:07
APFT: 43 (I believe was the score)
See you all in a week.
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Re: APFT Score - Personal Motivation
Agree. It provides a better opportunity for your body to absorb the impact of increased stress.Silverback wrote:Maybe twice a month would be a better format?JoeDGrinder wrote:Hello, so I am posting this as a personal motivator for myself to improve my PT and also, in the hopes of receiving any help and advice from the Rangers or others on this site to improve my fitness. I have 6 months or so until I will be attending OSUT and I want to be scoring over a 270 on the APFT before then. I will be posting my APFT scores every week as a motivation to myself to improve, so without further adieu my first scores
Pushups: 7
Sit Ups: 42
2-mile Run: 20:07
APFT: 43 (I believe was the score)
See you all in a week.
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- JoeDGrinder
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Re: APFT Score - Personal Motivation
This program may be of benefit to you:JoeDGrinder wrote:Hello, so I am posting this as a personal motivator for myself to improve my PT and also, in the hopes of receiving any help and advice from the Rangers or others on this site to improve my fitness. I have 6 months or so until I will be attending OSUT and I want to be scoring over a 270 on the APFT before then. I will be posting my APFT scores every week as a motivation to myself to improve, so without further adieu my first scores
Pushups: 7
Sit Ups: 42
2-mile Run: 20:07
APFT: 43 (I believe was the score)
See you all in a week.
http://hundredpushups.com/
It is a fairly good program if you use it correctly. I doubt if you will be able to do 100 push ups in six weeks, but it may help you knock out 56 by the time you leave.
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Your push-up performance should improve dramatically. Reachng your goal is very possible, but it will be up to you to aheive it. One thing you could do is perform pushups from a position on your knees instead of your feet. These will be easier, but you will get more more repetitions. When you can't do any more regular push-ups, then drop to your knees a squeeze out of few of these. Another thing you could do to help improve your chest, shoulder and upper arm strength is some weighlifting, like bench pressing. Find a weight you can do 10 reps with and when you can do 12 or 13 reps with that weight, increase it and when you can get 12 or 13 reps, increase the weight again. Do you find that your back begins sagging? If so, perform "planks." If you don't know what they are, Google it.
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- JoeDGrinder
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Ranger Flesh Thorn,
Thank you for the link and I will check it out to see if it can help me improve.
Ranger Ranger Bill,
Thank you for your advice. I do have some problems with my back sagging but mainly it is my chest/arms failing on me. I have begun a weight lifting routine that seems to be helping, and I will continue to strive to be the best I can.
Thank you for the link and I will check it out to see if it can help me improve.
Ranger Ranger Bill,
Thank you for your advice. I do have some problems with my back sagging but mainly it is my chest/arms failing on me. I have begun a weight lifting routine that seems to be helping, and I will continue to strive to be the best I can.
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Lord am I trying to eat. I am currently a Resident Advisor and a Senior at GMU so I did not need a meal plan. This semester out of the blue I got roped into Crew and a great opportunity with the Army came up so my PT really got started and the measly food I can cook in a room is not enough to even meet half my minimum caloric intake. I am switching to a meal plan next semester to get the food I need but as is I am having a hard time gaining weight or getting much stronger due to being constantly hungry. Soon I will be forced to either eat my residents or start confiscating any food I see entering my Hall.
Ranger Rock Island Ranger,
Yes sir, I will be hopefully doubling and halving some of those numbers this weekend.
Lord am I trying to eat. I am currently a Resident Advisor and a Senior at GMU so I did not need a meal plan. This semester out of the blue I got roped into Crew and a great opportunity with the Army came up so my PT really got started and the measly food I can cook in a room is not enough to even meet half my minimum caloric intake. I am switching to a meal plan next semester to get the food I need but as is I am having a hard time gaining weight or getting much stronger due to being constantly hungry. Soon I will be forced to either eat my residents or start confiscating any food I see entering my Hall.
Ranger Rock Island Ranger,
Yes sir, I will be hopefully doubling and halving some of those numbers this weekend.
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I was about a skeleton when I enlisted, with two pounds to spare to meet the minimum height/weight ratio!
My p/u scores weren't much better, but it took hardly any time at all - without any special effort on my part beyond annoying the drill sergeants who assigned me plenty of "remedial" push-ups - to get up over 50 good ones.
Things is, assuming you're under 21, your numbers will skyrocket. Just get the proper rest & diet.
And make damn sure you stretch properly to avoid disqualifying injuries, especially before running.
You'll have to do enough dumb stuff after you arrive so don't take chances now.
My p/u scores weren't much better, but it took hardly any time at all - without any special effort on my part beyond annoying the drill sergeants who assigned me plenty of "remedial" push-ups - to get up over 50 good ones.
Things is, assuming you're under 21, your numbers will skyrocket. Just get the proper rest & diet.
And make damn sure you stretch properly to avoid disqualifying injuries, especially before running.
You'll have to do enough dumb stuff after you arrive so don't take chances now.
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