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The only thing you will really need muscles for in boot camp will be the obstacle course (lots of things involving pulling your own body weight over bulkheads...and rope climbs will be hell if you are weak) and the constant body weight exercises. You WILL be running, doing crunches, doing pull-ups and doing push-ups every single day. If you fuck up one thing (and you will, DIs will MAKE you fuck up just to punish you for fun) you will be doing push-ups. You will get quarter-decked often, which means you run to the front of the deck and get hammered with constant exercises until you're ready to barf.
I'm assuming you know the IST requirements - 1.5 miles run, at least three pull-ups and at least 35 or so crunches in two minutes. Your PFT is double this, but you should never only make the minimum because your entire platoon is scored based on everyone's performance and you DON'T want to be the guy who brought down the average, EVERYONE will hate you, the weak link gets their ass chewed out at every turn.
To recap: Run daily, you will be doing this in boot anyway, they don't care if you're sore or exhausted, you WILL run every fucking day. Understand that they will break you physically, they really don't care if it's "healthy" or not, it is NOT like working out as a civilian. Max out your push-ups, crunches and pull-ups as often as you can, ideally three times a day; again, you will be doing these multiple times a day in boot camp. Get organized, everything in boot camp revolves around following orders and keeping your gear perfectly neat and organized, slobs need not apply. Lastly, I suggest you get familiar with swimming, it seems a lot of recruits have trouble with the swimming tests and simulated drowning.
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