How to Increase Sit-Ups by 400% | Boot Camp

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Sit-ups - you are definitely going to be doing a lot of these in basic training, so let me show you how to great a great sit-up routine for you. All right first of all what I am going to want you to do is get down on the ground in the sit-up position. In order to do sit-ups it is best to have someone holding your feet. Now this is a typical sit-up from start to finish. Your fingers are interlocked behind your head. That's one complete sit-up. Now this is the routine I want you to do. I want you to go halfway up and halfway down until exhaustion. Now what that does is that builds a certain part of your muscles in your stomach. Then, once you have reached exhaustion, wait a few minutes, and then do the upper half crunches. Do that until exhaustion, ans that's one set. So you've got lower half and then upper half. You want to do that three times. Okay so that's how to do a sit-up and that's a great sit-up routine. Now abs are a little different because you can work them every day. It doesn't require as much muscle recovery time as your other muscle groups. So if you feel like you can do it again the very next day, you are not sore, don't work out when you're sore, if you're not sore with your ab muscles go ahead and do that whole routine again. Next week you might want to up it to four sets, and who knows, if you want even add a small weight or a rock or something safe to your chest, maybe about five or ten pounds, and do some sit-ups that way as well. What you are doing is you are replicating the exact movement that you are going to be doing at basic training, so that also helps with muscle memory retention.

[joineejones]

the more sit ups you can do without someone holding your feet the more you can do with someone holding your feet. and breathe out with each rep.. you will beast

[EricGyamfighettotastic]

you know your out of shape when your out of breath from doing jumping jacks

[insevin]

I've got the Air Force version of the ultimate guide and needed to see this video to know what upper half crunches meant. Thanks!

[Ksixstring]

I have Army training in a month and my sit ups are shit, hope this works. Thank you for the awesome routine. Wish me luck.

[glocksig]

What if my feet holder and I broke up, and my feet holder refuses to hold my feet? What other feet holders are available?

[spassky]

I find doing push-ups easier than doing sit-ups. Why is this?

[bheras]

Thanks for your video Sr. It really helped me to increase my reps it worked for me at the next day I was able to do 5 more sit ups . Thanks again Sir.

[MyFireVideos]

nice MRE reference: "a rock or something." You thought you could sneak that in.

[josephwhite]

I'm going to try and get in to the USAFA. I'm starting my junior year, so I got some time to gain muscle. I hope this helps a lot! I followed his instructions for the push ups today and my arms and chest are dead!

[stephanokidd]

When I was in, i just used my hip flexers when I worked my core until exhaustion. It does wonders.

[GetMoney]

Does this work? I need to do 37 in one minute to pass a power test.

[xsenceox]

"Dont work out when youre sore." lol Youre funny. Now where the fuck is your PT belt?

[KaizenLife]

I use ankle weights to keep me down while I practice my sit-ups :)

[franc]

Outstanding SGT. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise for ALL to benefit. WHOA!!

[emmanuelsurf]

Thanks i will try that. I need to do minimum 50 sit ups under 1 min for bmt and I can do only 25 right now. Leaving sept 6th.

[Avelocity]

Thanks, going to start this tomorrow as well as the push up 400% routine.

[rosesarabia]

Tip that worked for me!

if you can do sit ups without someone holding your feet is gonna be easier than when someone does. So like me i can do 70 without holding my feet and 160 holding them.

[calebhorchem]

I commented on the "how to increase your push-ups" and now I will comment on this. I will do this for a month straight until I leave for Basic Training. I get around 50 sit-ups right now so I will update in a month.

[MrDank]

She's trying so hard not to look at his nuts

[alan]

Thank you for the tips. I'll try your push up and sit up drills to see if they work, sergeant. I eventually want to max out my pt test, but cannot get over 85% on pu and 80% on su. Fortunately I always max my run and make 115% on the extended scale.