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Jun 2023
11:38am, 13 Jun 2023
12,039 posts
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lammo
Blimey, nice one Nellers, i need to get my finger out
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Jun 2023
1:07pm, 13 Jun 2023
146,232 posts
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GregP
Pull ups are definitely easier I can report - but also play havoc with my tennis elbow.
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Jun 2023
9:20pm, 14 Jun 2023
26,479 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Pull-ups are for bootnecks (and toddlers). Chin-ups are for Crabs, and other mortals.
Muscle-up anyone?!
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Jun 2023
10:11pm, 14 Jun 2023
146,245 posts
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GregP
We should have a prejudice-off - Policing's hatred of Trumpton vs the Army's hatred of, well, just about everyone else.
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Jun 2023
10:14pm, 14 Jun 2023
26,480 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
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Jun 2023
10:44am, 15 Jun 2023
146,246 posts
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GregP
So here’s a thing. Just back from the gym (three days on the trot - go me). As I was getting changed to go home a young painfully healthy looking chap came in, got changed into gym kit then took out a letter from the Royal Navy which started ‘dear candidate’ and had a table which, at a guess, had target times for thing for qualification to something or other.
Chap looked very focused so I didn’t ask.
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Jun 2023
10:49am, 15 Jun 2023
40,821 posts
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Nellers
Most of the armed forces and "first responders" have some sort of basic fitness requirements for entry. I worked with a lad a few years ago who was looking to get into the army as an officer and he was going to the gym to get his run time for whatever distance it was down and to get good at press ups and sit ups.
I've just had a quick google. To get in to the RN as a rating you need to be able to run 2.4km in better than 12:16.
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Jun 2023
10:52am, 15 Jun 2023
40,822 posts
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Nellers
Ooh, now there's a google rabbit hole I shouldn't have gone down. I bet he's going into the Marines:
"Since June 2021, the PJFT+ has resumed being conducted at Nuffield Health Gyms across the country under the assessment of a Physical Training Instructor.
The circuit conducted for the test includes:
20 x burpees
30 x sit ups
20 x press ups
1 minute plank
You will have to complete the full PJFT+ circuit three times. On completion of the three circuits, and after a two-minute recovery, you will have to perform one set of five pull ups. "
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Jun 2023
11:06am, 15 Jun 2023
146,247 posts
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GregP
Oooh. My gym's a Nuffield. I'll ask my PT.
JRFT for (Essex) Police is hideously non-challenging. I'll dig it out when I get back to work next week if it's not readily publicly available.
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Jun 2023
11:08am, 15 Jun 2023
146,248 posts
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GregP
That about 1.5 miles at 8:10s, give or take?
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