Great points, You have to work out for an hour at a time to get the conditioning for a 5 minute judo match. You aren’t gonna prepare for 72 hours hell with a one hour workout

Absolutely agree with what you said and I really enjoy your videos. I did my time as an infantry assaultman in the Corps and yes life absolutely sucked. Now I have a have and young kids and another on the way. Its VERY HARD to find time to train like I want to. I've set up a routine where one weekend a month I go out and work on the basics of Patrolling, digging fighting positions, making range cards establishing a patrol base and LPOPs. sometimes its just me and sometimes I have buddies train with me. Sometimes its 5am Saturday to 5PM Sunday with night training included, buts its always at least one full day in full kit doing the same Infantry stuff I did when I was in. That works for me and the stage of life I'm in and I accept the fact that I'm not gonna be some tier one operator equivalent by doing that. We're training to be prepared citizens that can react and protect our homes and communities. we get out what we put in and we all have to find a way to make that work as best we can and understand our limitations. That all being said gear and guns wont make you deadly. They'll only compliment the physical and mental capabilities that you already posses.

@doitriteak

Жыл бұрын

I was an assaultman as well. Other than machine gunners, I carried some of the heaviest stuff. Demo is not light, especially when you plan to make your own field expedient claymores when you get into your AO. Not to mention having to tote around SMAW rockets and an old launcher

@colestewart4205

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I hated that thing…there is no good way to carry a Mk 153 SMAW. The grip or the “spotting rifle” always dig into my neck and if you bound with the rifleman, which we did, it would smack the bag of my head every time I hit the deck.

@doitriteak

Жыл бұрын

I humped it alot with a SAW sling because of that. The issue I had was rockets and the launcher. The spotting rifle was not the issue as much as its charging handle. Also the shoulder stop slid out alot and snagged. Not to mention the bipod legs. Lots of snag points but the line guys loved when we broke it out and let loose. Hurting ears and feelings was the name of the game

@colestewart4205

Жыл бұрын

@@doitriteak oh ya they loved seeing us use it but I rarely had an officer that knew how to implement us so I ended up getting used a rifleman with extra weight a lot

I have been rucking/walking under load once a week for several weeks and even just that has been helping me greatly. Legs and hips are way stronger and my cardio is improving. I want to up my training tempo but it's hard with two little ones.

@colestewart4205

Жыл бұрын

Little kids just tend to make life a challenge lol

Thanks for posting. I’ll watch tomorrow morning.

I’ll definitely be watching tomorrow on the way to work

What most gym goers don't appreciate is how strength training does not translate to endurance activities. And crossfit in relation to endurance work (not sport, as that is highly specific) is strength training. I had been going to gym for a while and was at a position where I squatted 1.5 times my bodyweight and DL was 2 times of my bodyweight. I had to go work as a scaffolder and we didn't have any winches. That meant all the 13 kilo pieces had to be lifted floor by floor to the top and back down again. No body is ready for that kind of work if it's only been to the gym an hour or two every other day. It's quite painful for the first two weeks. A seasoned scaffolder told me that he had seen lot's of muscle hunks that didn't last the first two weeks. I guess it has a lot to do with the size of the muscle and the effect of lactate has in relatively larger muscles. As for training for light infantry - hiking with a heavy bag. You'll have to deal with lot's of similar things that light infantry does and you get away from the world. Add some relevant activities like reading a map and directions, try out camoing, eating shit food and doing it in constant caloric deficit. And take a lot of pate with you (the main source of protein in our foodpacks).

So do you still talk with the guy’s from Alaska?

@doitriteak

Жыл бұрын

Not much.

Check this out, if you can put a backpack blower on and use weed whacker at the same time, I consider you worthy 💪🏾 plus that heat outside 😮, mostly after work, I take a warm shower to get dirt and stuff off, then go for a nice walk or jog and then eat, small or big portion, depends on how hungry I am, push ups sit ups, read and go to bed

@doitriteak

Жыл бұрын

Sit ups are a thing of the past after finding out how bad it is for the back. Do hollows instead

@greenghost5009

Жыл бұрын

@@doitriteak definitely that, but ain’t nothing wrong with some crunches

@doitriteak

Жыл бұрын

Crunches are in the same area. I avoid repetitive sit up type lifts unless they are like a Romanian Get Up

@greenghost5009

Жыл бұрын

@@doitriteak rite, but whatever it takes to stay in shape and keep your wind 💪🏾

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