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a lot more.
Need to start eating breakfast. Many lifters actually break down their food to 5 smaller meals a day to keep the metabolism and body going. Also try HIIT training. Don't forget, weights first, cardio second if you are looking to bulk up.
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But remember being big isn't an advantage on running based fitness tests. I'd take a look at the tests you need to pass and focus my fitness on my week subjects, it'll do you no good if you can do 1000 push ups but take an hour to run a mile, or been able to run a 4 minute mile but the only sit up you can do is the one that gets you out of bed.
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If all else fails, join the army.
Totally not the right reason to join the army.
oh and army fitness tests are a joke. You could walk it.
Totally not the right reason to join the army.
oh and army fitness tests are a joke. You could walk it.
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So long as you can walk at around 9 mile/hour
Pretty definitive lol.
Got some cereal, can't really afford to buy the milk for it though. Thieving scrotes of housemates rinse it.
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Well, I'm in the boat of needing stamina and strength, so need to focus on both. Hopefully starting to eat more will help.
Thanks. I wouldn't say it was because I have failed per se, more than I need the necessaryy push. I've no doubt if I applied myself, my degree would be fine. Hard to motivate for no reason though.
Meh, hope the fitness tests are a doodle. Got through my OTC alright, but that was a **** take in fairness.
Use the feeling of failure to push yourself to succeed. Risky business doing it though but sometimes you need something really crap to happen to really give you a kick up the **** with this sort of stuff.
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I would love to join the army. But I could never hack being away from my friends and family for so long, and no girls might send me crazy.
I dropped out of uni and yet am doing pretty well. If you can land yourself a decent job and work hard you don't need a degree but it isn't easy. But then having a degree doesn't make it a garantee either.
I would consider reapllying for Uni. You think you have messed up but you might regret it in a few years when it is too late, I dropped out and am now 25, Like I said I am doing good but sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had got a degree.
3 years of uni isn't that long in the grand scheme of things. Especially compared to commiting to the army. It is a parallel world.
I dropped out of uni and yet am doing pretty well. If you can land yourself a decent job and work hard you don't need a degree but it isn't easy. But then having a degree doesn't make it a garantee either.
I would consider reapllying for Uni. You think you have messed up but you might regret it in a few years when it is too late, I dropped out and am now 25, Like I said I am doing good but sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had got a degree.
3 years of uni isn't that long in the grand scheme of things. Especially compared to commiting to the army. It is a parallel world.
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Taught you well, Yoda has....
I have no fear of failure, I've never really failed anything before. Looks like this upcoming collossal failure might be a shock to the system!
Thanks, really appreciate you sharing your story, Lord know's I want a degree it's simply a case of getting of my butt and getting it. I know for a certainty that if I was to retake the year I'd get whatever mark I wanted, but truth be told I can't afford to pay for another year and I'm not sure I could face it.
Agree on the no girl front but I could hack it long enough I guess, though the family/friends situation would be tougher.
what exactly did you do. I'm thinking c-17 or eurofighter
Maybe logistics.
I'm ok with weapons but the rifles they use really don't look like thy could kill someone. they're so plasticy - they look like toys FFS!
ICT Tech, not the most glamorous of roles
I used to have the same view about the rifles. You learn how to handle the weapon very effectively before you ever fire a round, and after going through the drills time after time after time they really do feel like harmless little toys.
It's not until you you take that same toy you've been playing with in a training room down to the range, put a live round in it, and scare the living **** out of yourself that you realise the horrifying power of firearms.
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I think in comparison to other armies rifles the L85/SA80 feels much more weapon like, although it does look unconventional. The M-16 family are very light, they do feel like toys to me.
The 7.62 rifles are much more war like, Fn Fal and G3 certainly feel like they can hurt someone.
Agreed. The SA80A2 feels like a decent weapon, though like you said, I'd like to have tried a 7.62 rifle out, they seem a lot more heavy duty.
Failed at life so "unlocking" your potential in the Army?
The great thing about life is even if you fail multiple times you can always turn that around
I know I know.
Truth be told, I saw a councillor the other day and he was off the impression there is something impinging on my life greatly.
Great.
I'm reluctant to go down that isle though, I don't want to be sifting through potentially dangerous pitfalls in my mind.
I'd like to share what he said, but I don't know who knows me on the forum.
You would be well placed to join the military anyway, the fetishization here is getting borderline surreal. I fully expect in the next couple of years that you'll get free hookers supplied to your doorstop because you wore a uniform at some point in your life.
What is the public's infatuation with servicemen I don't know...
What is the public's infatuation with servicemen I don't know...
I think you have us confused with the US.
I certainly don't feel there is an infatuation with servicemen, the complete opposite in fact. People in uniform are not particularly welcome round here, and are refused entry into clubs etc.
Hm? We're fast reaching USA levels of infatuation with servicemen. The recent Covenant deal is one such example of this. You have the 'they're all heroes NO ARGUING WITH THIS' deal by the media, then all the massive pomp and circumstance at public ceremonies that always seem to involve the military even when they're completely irrelevant. The FA cup was presented by a serviceman for absolutely no reason at all for example.
It's dumb and it's sending the wrong message out.
It's dumb and it's sending the wrong message out.