Hey all,
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
1. Go to an athletic nutrition site and calculate your TDEE. "Eat to Perform" gets recommended here a lot.
Personally I hate counting calories, after dieting by counting calories from 120kg down to where I am now it is painful and depressing to the extreme, I mostly try to eat intuitively though frankly I have a sweet tooth I need to knuckle down on as I know it is what is really hampering me, possibly along with not eating enough in general, another side effect of being fat that I need to address. STFU and do it or would just knuckling down on the junk be okay?
Keep it simple and jog OUTSIDE for your Base.
All of my running and all of the running I have ever done is outside, mostly road work with a little bit of trails, depending. When walking to/from work 99% of the time when I walk I take a trail around the back which has a few hills in it, some of the running by necessity is also over hills to/from work, most of it is on moderately flat ground however. At the moment Im doing my best to push for a slower pace as I always go harder unless I really knuckle down. My last two runs were at about a 9-9:30 mile pace, doing 5.2/5k in the 30 mins, the second run with a leg of it on a trail which slowed me down a bit.
I'd also recommend doing 3 x SE per week when you do your Base.
With the low numbers on Push Ups and not yet able to do pull ups would it be better for me to go with a strength first approach or just grind out rows/negatives? Ideally Id like to be able to crank out 10-20 good, solid dead hang pull ups by the time I hit basic. My main issue here will be my schedule for work, I basically do a 2D3N, 7Off, 4N, 1 1/2Off, 3D, 2Off, 2D, 3Off, repeat, working over every day/night within a month so setting my schedule on a Monday-Sunday doesnt really work for me and I will be doing my E Sessions as part of transit to/from work, so I will be running E days back to back frequently up to 3 days in a row, add in Overtime shifts and it can go up to 10 in a row where running will be done out of necessity.
I lost 11lbs during Base Building, and I've always been stubbornly overweight.
Thats awesome. Ive personally dropped from 120kg down to 97kg, 93kg at my lowest so a solid 50lb fat loss, though putting on some decent muscle, however I find I plateau hard at 96kg and 93kg, were you counting calories while running base?
One thing I'll throw in, include pull-ups in your SE cluster. But instead of using 30 as your max# (as you would for the other SE exercises) cap your pull-ups at 20. So week 1 = 10, week 2 = 20, week 3-8 = 20. You likely won't be able to complete all reps of all circuits continuously which isn't an issue, that's the way SE is supposed to be. Just keep squeezing your pull-ups out in sets of 1-5 after you hit that wall, until you reach 20.
Embarrassingly this isnt really an option at the moment, this being one of the reasons I want to cut the weight, Im not interested in cutting weight for looks, just to make calisthenics easier, hopefully be able to start doing pull ups and make the running a little more comfortable, I have no issues with my weight for running. I am painfully unable to even do one good solid pull up as yet, I get about 2/3 of the way up then just stick. I can do decent controlled negatives and bodyweight rows happily enough, would it be better to sub in one of the two instead?
What corps are you joining and I will tell you what to focus on. Go for a trade if you aren't already. Infantry sounds cool, but with the current overseas climate you have much better options.
I'm hanging out for Medical Technician, Ive had lots of family/friends/colleagues who are currently serving or out and one of the things I had drilled into me was to get something out of it. Callous as it sounds "being able to shoot and run wont get you a job afterwards", with the military pension gone theres no real drive to do a full 20 years any more so Im going in with the mindset of if its not a lifestyle I find myself addicted to and willing to live until either I die or cant physically do it any more I want qualifications I can walk out with and use anywhere.
While alot of the training will be for the military, I want to just cruise through basic physically and hopefully be in a good position to run another BB once I hit IET before moving to build. Im not really considering SF at the moment but once Ive been in for a couple years and Im confident in my job I may consider it, depending on a number of things. Mainly I want the fitness for my own peace of mind, if I can smoke the BFA day dot then all of Kapooka should be a breeze and I may be able to maintain a good chunk of my fitness off my own back so I can jump in and build from a better base once I hit IET.
Thanks for your replies guys