How I would Train If I Were Re-Joining The Royal Marines

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[Dadsworldcoaching]

look after your back and keep in strong as possible i got MD (medical discharged) at week 27 because of this issue luckily i crossed over to the Navy, back injuries are very common. great video Royal

[ianturner]

Find a hill, sprint it to exhaustion, jog down and

[GOOFEEN]

Doing endurance training is super important, regardless if it's directly used in your military training. It increases your ability to recover and allows you to progress your high intensity training faster. It enables you to have a big gas tank. You're going to think better, sleep better, recover better and not gas out as fast during high intensity sessions. Someone who doesn't have good aerobic fitness who goes straight into high intensity training isn't going to benefit from it as much.

[Nghtstar]

Mate currently serving RM myself, wanted to listen to something abit new and stumbled across you on the not so fit couple podcast and loved it mate, will be supporting everything you do from now on royal 👍

[stephen]

When I looked at the RM the recruiter gave me a great leaflet about training. Sprints were right at the top. Body weight excersises, especially lifting your own body weight in pulls ups, climbing etc and runs with heavy packs.

[grahamarnhem]

The bottom field is a massive shock no matter how fit you are.remember the psychological impact it had on me on the prc 1984.

[georgey]

I am exhausted just watching this workout 😅 good work keep it up

[craigc]

I’ve been out the corps for 7 years now. A couple of weeks ago I took up yoga, two classes a week I’ve started doing something called power yoga and all I could think the first time I did it was, turn off the relaxing music and this is like being thrashed at CTC. Lots of static static holds like high planks and squat positions and stuff. Genuinely the closest fitness class I’ve found replicates that unique type of exercise that is a troop thrashing, minus the sprints haha

[Tovashi]

- Strength training (OHP, Bench, Squats, Deadlift)
- Sprint intervals
- Calisthenics (Burpees, push-ups, pull-ups, squats, lunges)
- Zone 2 running
- Loaded carries (Rucking, farmer carry)
- Sled drags / pulls

[bkg]

I agree i do 10 x 200, or 6x 400 or 3 x800 metre intervals with either 30, 60 or 120 seconds rest in between after a half mile warm up/cool down its only 2.5 miles jogging / fast run but its better than just constantly jogging 5-6 miles steady state all the time

[M.C.R-ST]

Crossfit and endurance fitness, Alot with weighted vests. Lifting heavy weights superset with high intensity cardio.

[easternhistorian]

Using your videos to help me prepare for OCS!

[partyanight]

I just learnt I'm NOWHERE near as fit as I think I am.

[davediamond]

Royal Marines Reservist Green Beret in January 1988. Dundee Detachment.
Only exercise looking back, I would do more is Weight Training as I was skinny.
We were very lucky as several ex full time Royal Marines who joined civvy street from 45 Commando etc, served in Dundee as Reservists.
Every one of these Gentlemen in Dundee were brilliant Teachers/Mentors.
I think we had at least 2 ML's so PT was intense lol.
First time I turned up to do PT, SGT. 'Taff' Jolly was gently breaking us new boys in, I crapped myself as he had the build of a 5 ft tall bodybuilder.
I thought to myself 'Lets rethink and join the Medics'.
Had a pint in the Navy Junior Rates Mess afterwards, well tried too but my hands and arms were shaking so much in pain, half the beer was spilling over me.
So I thought to myself, how soon before I come back !!
Every time I got a bollacking and had to do press ups I thought 'I am getting fitter quicker'.
True story, pardon me for long paragraph.

[matthewlardner]

Very few comments on here about training your mind ! Your mind will break before your body does. Get your head around being uncomfortable. Train in the cold, train in the mud. Find hills, find cold rivers or the sea. Be able to move your body weight over obstacles and then gradually add weight so you can cross obstacles and distances with weight on your back. Then do it wet, cold and dirty. The first blokes to leave CTC in my time were the gym monkeys that were comfortable in Lycra but had never run in boots in the mud! Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Get your body used to travelling over uneven ground. Running on a treadmill will not prepare your joints, tendons and supporting muscles for running down a mountain with weight on your back. That’s where bodies properly break, not in the gym.
The posters and the old advert are still correct…” it’s a state of mind”
👍🏻💪🏻🤙🏻😬

[LionheartNh]

I joined in 78..it comes from inside..first of all you need humility./..fuck the muscle..and then you need a kind of madness from within ..it still sits with me now...what they teach you is only a small part...you have to be you if that makes sense.

[JimmyLives]

You dont need to turn up at CTC super human. The training team and the first 10 weeks will do the that especially the gym sessions/ camp circuits leading up to Gym passout.

Bottom field is a different beast all togehter.

I think back fondly and with some heavy regret at the time i spent at Lympstone in the past.

Whilst there, just dont let injury and forgetting the reasons why you joined hold you back.

Good luck.

[tonyjames]

Seems to have changed a great deal from when I joined in 79. Back then you had to be able to do a number of press ups and sit ups but the idea was your fitness would develop as training progressed starting with IMF through to the bottom field.

[noel]

I didn’t train until I joined! I didn’t have a clue. Still passed out of CTC though I did get back trooped and injured 🤣🤣🤣

[Timemachine-crzj]

i dont think you trained wrong. it sounds like you had a good base fittness. you said your traiing runs were based on long stamina runs but on the course the runs where much shorter. but the shorter runs happen often and continuously so the stamina you built up was not wasted