Military Fitness Requirements

The dreaded, timed, 2 mile run...

Typically not an issue to run 2 miles but add in a time requirement coupled with the knowledge that if I fail a 2 mile run, I also lose my full time employment...hence the initial dread.

Now I agree that an athlete of any stature needs to be conditioned. I pursued the heavy weights most of my life but never truly chased the entire picture. Now that I have broken a inordinate amount of bones in the gym and tore tendons like construction paper in a kindergarten art class, its time to go back to basics and do it right.

I calculate 10 more years until I can retire so I have 10 years of biannual 2 mile runs to stay conditioned for. My old plan was 60 days out, start dumping weight (often times 15 to 20 lbs) and running my lungs out on a tread mill.

No doubt the last minute plan aided in the dreadful approach to the timed run...

New Cardio Plan:

Mondays and Fridays will be steady state cardio for 30 mins, uphill the whole time.

Tuesdays and Thursdays will be a Conditioning Circuit.

Wednesday is a rest day.

My Iron Philosphy won't change for Monday thru Friday. I am making bigger lifts every week and suffering no painful side effects.

Functional movements are the core of my heavy lifts and staying true to this has increased nearly every lift by 50+ lbs in the last 6 weeks.

I will never settle for just healthy and fit..


J.
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