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Anonymous
Ok /fit/.
I generally fail at life, so I've decided to drop out of college after this semester and enlist to stop wasting time and money.

What should I start doing now to be better prepared? As of this morning I'm 5'9 and 155.5 lbs (and a dude, by the way). So I'm not fat, but the only workout I do regularly is riding my bike a few miles a day.

Also, I don't know what branch of the military yet so any advice there is appreciated.
>> Anonymous
Do ballet and do some core exercise weightlifting. Getting your cardiovascular endurance up is good too but not as important as being able to lift your own weight and carry 180 lbs of gear
>> Anonymous
I'll expand a little. Push ups, chin ups, pull ups are very good exercises. Also do squats, bench-press and deadlifts. Fill a backpack with lots of water bottles or sandbags and gradually up the backpack's weight from 20 lbs to 100. Walk some long trips and get comfortable in army boots. Learn about taping your feet and how to avoid injury. Your goal is not to get in shape for the ladies, as a military man (in the right branch mind you) you will get the ladies anyway. Learn about survival and start liking the outdoors. That will be all
>> Anonymous
Oh, and the squats, benchpress and deadlifts are exercises where you want to utilize strength and not endurance. Go for no more than five reps on each set. But seriously, learn about injury. It's a common problem in the army atleast.
>> Anonymous
play some CoD4 and don't join unless you have an avg kdr of at least 4/1.
>> Anonymous
Ok I was in the Marines, I advise against joining that particular branch because it's a pain in the ass and mentally exhausting. That said, if you still join the Marines you'll do well on your physical fitness tests if you can run 3 miles in 25 mins or less, do 10 pullups and 100 crunches in 2 mins (iirc...). Unless you go infantry you'll probably run or do calisthenics with your company/platoon/shop/whatever 3 days out of the week.

AF, Army, Navy, Coast Guard will have a slightly easier physical requirement but I can't say for sure what's expected. Your recruiter will probably let you know what's in store for you physically.

Also, I am back in school after a 4-year enlistment and most of the time I just wish I stayed in school... but the Montgomery GI Bills gives me almost $1500 every month, 9 months out of the year for being in school full time.

tl;dr, pushups, pullups, 3 mile run (but better to stay in school)
>> Anonymous
Endurance is the main thing, at least in the SEALs it is. I've been interested in the SEALs and they hardly ever workout with weights. They do a fuckton of bodyweight exercises. Hundreds of pushups, situps, and leg work all in one workout. Endurance is huge pretty much anywhere you go in the military, as you'll be running a lot and doing a lot of reps. So I advise you to build your stamina. Start doing reps and reps of pushups and situps and pullups and squats and all variations of them. Do them until you cant do them no more. Then once you finish every exercise, do them all one more time.

Also start running. Be able to run 3 miles in around 20 minutes or 4 miles in under 30 mins.