Make a sand pill. Here is the easy way: Go to the garden section at Home Depot, Wal Mart, etc. Buy the following: 1. Bag of filler (pebbles, sand, whatever) that weighs enough. Lava rocks are lighter, pebbles/sand are heavier. 2. Contractor trash bags. The thick ones. 3. Roll of gorilla tape. By usi...

I'm training for a LE PFT and my current #'s are as follows with my goals next to it. I've decided to start off with base building (standard). Push-ups - 25 (want 50+) Sit-ups (1min) - 37 (want 55+) 300m Sprint - 70 seconds (need sub 50 seconds) 1.5 mile - 13:30 (want sub 10:30) *Pull-ups - 5 (want...

BB Week 4 4.1 SE Circuit 1x50 1min rest between exercises Notes: Feeling the day 3.6 ruck a little in the legs and back. Glad today was only one circuit of 50s. Took rest pause a few times. Avoided coming close to failure. 4.2 LSS: 60min run Treadmill 1% incline 4.3 LSS: 60min run Treadmill 1% incl...

Just be reasonable enough with you nutrition and eat to train. +1. This is it. Just be honest with yourself. Simply, "Am I being ridiculous right now?" For example, if I eat six tacos at 0200? Kind of ridiculous. Two tacos? No big deal. Just don't do it all the time. You don't have to be ...

BB Week 3 3.1 SE Circuits 3x40 1min rest after each exercise 2min rest after each circuit Notes: Circuits are getting long. I guess that's the point... 3.2 LSS: 50min run Treadmill 1% incline 3.3 LSS: 50min run Treadmill 1% incline Notes: Heart, lungs, legs were fine. Time slowed down around minute...

Long flights can cause the soreness you describe, including delayed soreness. Especially if your body is not used to flying like that. It helps to stretch as able during the flight, and get a good stretch in ASAP when you get off the plane. But long flights just wreck your body in general. There's r...

Below is how I would prioritize purchases for a TB home gym. I did not include an Olympic bar, bumper plates, and platform. I personally would not use those tools at home by myself. Too much risk and expense for the reward IMO. The bike and rower might be extravagances. Doesn't cost anything to type...

Serial Season 1 (Adnan Syed) Serial Season 2 (Bergdahl). Got a little tedious at times. Overall worth listening to it. Pin Kings (by ESPN..."The astonishing story of how two wrestling teammates from Miami came to oppose each other in the cocaine wars -- one as a drug smuggler, the other as a DE...

Looking forward to using this as my cluster in Fighter toward the end of Base Building and then with Operator after BB. Though I can't do actual bodyweight pull ups (yet), I am lucky to have access to an assistance machine. I do want to pick up some bands though and do it that way. Even if you can'...