marvelous
Posted on 07/10/2018 5:02:39 PM PDT by DFG
Doubt this will survive Trump’s knowledge of it.
Bingo.
It's a damned back-breaker and neck-wrecker.
Cardio-pulmonary endurance is what needs to be measured and a damned situp doesn't do that.
I don't have a solution...although I always leaned toward endurance marches and hikes, a combination of walking and running.
I also always felt the old Run/Dodge/Jump in a timed mode and adjusted for different body types, would be part of a good test of physical readiness.
Bottom line, there are differences between men and men and there are differences between women and women...and there are damned sure differences between men and women.
Let's make it all about getting to the battlefield with a full battle-rattle and then being able to fight effectively once you get there.
I know damned well they can come up with something besides situps and pushups.
And for the mouthy wags out there, I maxed every APFT I took while on active duty, except for my last one prior to retirement...which is when a damned situp snapped two vertebrae in my back.
But I still passed the damned test.
READ THE ARTICLE!
READ THE ARTICLE!
READ TGE ARTICLE!
READ THE ARTICLE!
They’re not getting enough chicks so they’re lowering the standards even though they swore up and down that they wouldn’t.
I was 6'3" and weighed in around 150 pounds. So I was very scrawny and had not enough upper body strength to do the pull-ups.
The PCP platoon was mostly for fat-bodies, who could not do the required 3-mile run within 28 minutes so I was unique in that running was my specialty. I was doing sub-20 minute three mile runs right from the start which was unique in PCP. They called me the road-runner as I would often lap the others running around the track.
Also, they put me on double-rations, which was the exact opposite of most of the others in PCP, which were on restricted diets. I got my 3-mile run to about 16 minutes which was around 5 1/2 minutes a mile. Pretty darn fast though not exactly world class.
So push-ups and pull-ups were my weakness in the Marines. I did eventually get up to the maximum 20 pullups but it involved a technique that involved kicking my legs while on the pull-up bar.
I'm just saying that I was in excellent shape and could run circles around most. But those pull-ups and push-ups were not easy.
Don’t get the point of this? What’s wrong with the regular pushups?
Events come and go. I remember when the push-ups and sit=ups came back into the PT test. Some of the events of old: inverted crawl; buddy carry; run, stumble, and fall; horizontal ladder, rope climb, and others. The women of today would have problems with the events that focused on upper body strength.
I am no woman. But I hated push ups. I could do them. But I hated them.
Running, no problem. Sit ups? I can do them all day. But push ups and pull ups sucked.
marvelous
Beat me by less than a minute.
Yeah, that guy in the back is gonna have a problem. What a flabby dude.
Looks like from that marching that NATO is forming a new German Pansy Division.
Try “RTFA!” (for better effect)
Having to do pushups in the Army pretty much messed up my shoulders.
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