Stuward, That whats i thought. I am applying right now for the infantry, i would like to specialize in sniper or urban operations. Read about there special ops team, but there is not much information on them, “top secret”. just waiting on the school to send me over my transcript papers. I am joining %100 sure on that… I live In New Brunswick Hopewell cape. Gagetown is not far from me. Thanks for the heads up mate.
I grew up in Riverview and my family comes from your area of the county. We could be cousins.
Our special ops branch is called JTF2 and they recruit from within the infantry and other branches. You can’t go in directly. You can apply once you’ve finished your training.
When you talk to the recruiters tell them you want to go to 2RCR. That should get you to Gagetown. You can usually pick the regiment but you may move around to the different battalions and wind up in Petawawa. Still not a bad deal. A lot of people move back and forth between Gagetown and Petawawa. All the infantry battalions have sniper and urban ops opportunities.
Good luck.
Stu
stuward, 
I just moved here a little over a month ago, i am originally from British Columbia, Okanagan. Thanks for the info man! maybe I will be stationed with you one day, cheers//
Work out
Hour walk.
Sit ups 3x40
Leg raises 3x40
leg ups 3x10
Elastic band push ups 3x30
Wall sit 1:20 1:00 50sec
Meal 1
2 Eggs
Protien shake
Snack
cheese
glass of milk
orange
handful peanuts
Meal 2
Spinach rolls
kidney beans.
Snack
Protien shake
Cheese
1 k walk
3 K run
Meal 1
Oatmeal
Protein shake
Snack
Hand full carrot
Can of salmon
Meal 2
Vegetables
Muscles
Snack
Protein Shake
Peanuts
Dry dates
dyed apricots
I have been reading alot about the basic training for the army. Against all odds I am going to forget trying to get BIG until I am done with (BMQ) (SQ) training and Infantry training. My goals are to become fast on my feet, endurance, 8:00 min mile 100 push ups, 20 chin ups, 15 pull ups, 200 sit ups, 100 Dips I will cut back on snacking all day and keep to Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You dont get to snack in the army, I want to get my body used to it.
I will be doing more hiking with 35 pounds plus on my back and steal toe boots. When it comes to Push ups sit ups etc i found the best method is to set a goal so every thing is on time trail 2min and i will try to push myself to surpass my numbers each week by 5 or 10 What ever i can get my body to push out!
So this is what my day will start looking like. Start Tomorrow.
Morning: Wake up at 6:00 am. HAve break fast , leave the house hike for 4 hours or, make it home for lunch, eat lunch, relax, and watch a movie. run 2 km at tempo come home relax protein shake wait an hour Time trial: Push ups, sit ups, chin ups, dips. I will rotate every 2 days Handstand push ups, pull ups, squats, cafe raises, after 4 days on the 5 day I will do sprints, burpees skipping, explosive jumping. On 6 th Saturday day will be re coop day on Sunday will be hiking no weight just relaxing.
Today:
Meal 1
2 Eggs, cheese, tomato, Ham, Mayonnaise, musturd on Mic muffin.
Glass milk
Snack
Carrots
Bagel creme cheese
Protein shake
Meal 2
Pork
Potatoes
corn
Snack
Apricots
almonds
Work out:
2min 3xPush ups: If i could do more after 2 mins i would keep going until failure then i would try to squeeze a couple more out after to failure. Cheat push ups until failure these where hard. I would do that with the following exersizes
3xSit ups
3xChin ups to failure then negatives.
Yay!
Adventurous Hike>> 3 hours or more 30 pounds on the back…
PUshups, chinups, and situps Until failure.
Meal 1
Clam chowder
Protein shake
Snack
Carrots
Meal 2
Porgies
snack
Protein
Today
Nothing. Had to go into town to deal with some things.
Meal 1
Protein shake
Bagel
snack
Carrots
Meal 2
Pizza
protein shake
Start paying attention to your diet. Eat proper meals. You will need the energy and you just might gain some muscle.
Watch the fast carbs. You should be minimizing sugar and bread. Eat meat, fish or eggs with each meal and 2 or more non starchy vegetables with each meal. Eat salads and berries. Eat good fats like olive oil and fish oil. When you get to the mess, they are always available and you can fill up on them.
Stuward, you are very right. I actually felt quite disgusting, when i woke up this morning. I went out and bought some fish oils.
Meal 1
2 EGGS
Protein shake
Fish oil 1000mg
Creatine
Snack
BanANA
Meal 2
Stew
2 Hour hike through foot of snow 30 lbs on my back. I sure had my calfs throbbing.
Work out just consisted of Pull ups, and push ups tonight… Nothing special…
So it seems i must now complete GRADE 10. Finished grade 11 but not grade 10. I will be studying for my GED over the next month, will be back when i have finished studying and passed the exams…
Dammit, I have to update, been day-dreaming about T-Nation…
Oh how I dislike math. I have to do it though if i want to get into the army…
I was inspired by the Hungarian oak leg blast work out
Befor working out shoveled a 35 40 foot path way of snow 5 feet wide 2 feet deep of snow took about an hour
250x1 Prison Squats with a 40lbs pound bag filled with 2 liter pop bottles, 1 min rest 300x1 Prison squats no weight. 100x1 Crunches, 100x1 side to side crunches. 12x1 10x1 6x1 Chin ups, then 1x1 40lbs pound chin up at the end. Need to do more weighted squats next it will be 300x1 40lbs pounds min rest 200x1 40 pounds min rest 100x1 40 pounds then 300x1 no weight maybe, i will fall after that.
Food
Morning = 3:00 pm
2 eggs, Apple, creatine
1000mg, and fish oil
Supper
Vegetable and beef stew
Post work out
Protein shake
1000mg fish oil
Snack
Apples and cheese
Dude, holy fucking shit.
Are you trying to starve yourself, or what?
Here’s what I ate today:
7:30am Muffin egg & suusage breakfast sandwhich. ~430 calories.
10:30am 4 meatballs, ~360 calories.
1:30pm 16 oz. chili, 8 oz italian wedding soup. ~300 calories.
5pm three scoops whey protein shake + slice of cheese & a pickle. ~420 calories.
At 8:30/9 I will be eating an 8 oz steak, at about ~450 calories.
This is a typical day for me, and a diet on which I lost a shitload of weight on. I’m 170 lbs. I eat 1000 more calories a day on training days (mostly from oatmeal, heh!)
You need to eat more. 2 eggs? WTF is that? That’s only ~150 calories!
goochadamg: Ahah, I have never really eaten much man. I am full for long while after breakfast. When I was working diamond drilling you work 12 hour days you eat your breakfast work your 12 hours eat your dinner go to bed… It’s more routine then anything.
Breakfast
2 eggs, Orange, apple, Creatine… i am full as a mother fucker after that Had a protien shake and some peanut butter with rice Krispys plus an orange cant say i am much for eating i have never really liked it… I have tons of energy and I am go, go go for the day so i dont know…
Break day/ Went and watched the bucket list go watch it if you have not it was a pretty good movie.
you are full cause your stomach is used to being small since you never had to eat more.
eating more and training less would actually be better. by eating so little im thinking you’ll actually be losing fat and muscle instead of gaining muscle…
[quote]Endurance
Meter sprints, jump rope, quick punching a piece of paper, explosive jumping.
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Meter sprints?
Sprinting is the complete opposite of endurance.
Jump rope is somewhat endurance.
Punching a piece of paper is bad for your joints, stop it.
Explosive jumping is not endurance.
Endurance is swimming, biking, running or rowing for a long time.
+1 hour at least.
Sprinting will build endurance. If you want to compete in endurance you have to practice it but if your goal is to get ready to join the Army, and build muscle while you do it, sprints are better than long distance running. The OP does long runs as well. If you read the entire thread he does occasional 8K runs.
[quote]stuward wrote:
Sprinting will build endurance. If you want to compete in endurance you have to practice it but if your goal is to get ready to join the Army, and build muscle while you do it, sprints are better than long distance running. The OP does long runs as well. If you read the entire thread he does occasional 8K runs.[/quote]
Sprinting is purely anaerobic, i dont see how it “builds” endurance.
You might be thinking fartlek, but even then.
Alright i didnt read thread though, carry on 
Here’s an interesting article on cardio.
"The benefits of interval training (sprinting in short intense bursts)
- increases muscle fiber strength
- increases aerobic capacity (work ability)
- increases muscle mitochondria (the main energy production center in muscle)
- increases insulin sensitivity
- increases natural growth hormone production"
lordstorm88. True, I do need to eat more, but i do keep my protien up. Two scoops of protein powder = 50 grams of protein + Almonds, Tuna, Salmon etcetera. Some times I don’t allways post up what i eat in the day, as i forget. Well goochadamg makes me look like a pussy when it comes to eating, but every ones body’s are different. What I find is i do not need to intake as much to keep myself going.
Well i can not tell you how much this effects my gaining muscles. Never really experimented with eating. Eat pretty healthy, i like to eat the pizza, and Peanut butter sandwiches, and occasional icecream besides that I stick to my Meats, fish, fruits, and Vegatables. With the training aspects of things We sleep 8 hours + that should be good enough of a recovery time.
Even though others suggest longer breaks a day too, two days/ What I will start doing is working out for 2 weeks and then taking two days off./ My body is used to demand and physical stress, not every one is meant for this. I know this will be easy for me/ usally a hitch would last a month or more thats lifting, hiking, running, in extreme weather conditions.
Lifting steel rods. HQ rods= 120lbs 10 feet in height, NQ 75lbs 10 feet in height, 36 inch pipe wrench 21 pounds Core barrel with rock, 100lbs + depending on the rock. With rods you could be doing squat to curl on shoulder walking putting down, after pulling it out of the sloop throwing the rod forward picking it up from the bottom 10 foot rods. You could have 400 rods + in. 1000 foot hole, you would have 1000 rods down the hole.
SOme times you might have a miss latch, worn bit, have to pull 1000 rods out of the hole and put them back in once you have pulled them all. FUN DAYS> When it comes to physical shape i have the mentality to surpass the pain and go beyond willing to push myself and try new things out. Sorry about the bloat…
blazindave, Any thing and every thing you do will increase endurance. FROM walking to working out to punching the piece of paper. As long as you are not sitting on your ass, actually you can incrase it then to with the lung pump but doing some thing rather then doing nothing will help your Vo2 max. How is punching a piece of paper bad for my joints when running on pavement is 10 times harder on your body.
Punching a piece of paper, it increases my speed, it is one heck of a work out your on the balls of your feet following that paper around quick punching, jabbing, uppercuts blah blah. Almost like a speed bag . I could care less for my joints they will go when they go but for now i will stretch build muscle and keep them going in all hopes they will not give.
stuward, Thank you for the article. Looks like it will be a good read. THis what i like to see every one is learning and helping every one.
Work out was more of a circuit of maxing my self out. Navy seal work out…
120 push ups
100 Pull ups
400 sit ups
100 Dips
500 none stop squats
Can not really give you a time I just did one thing at a time untill i completed all my reps, the squats where simple.
Been getting my self ready for a new time change. Been going to sleep at 6:00 am and waking up at 2:00 pm or 3:00pm
Breakfast: Cod, Vegetables, With 3 cups of milk as normal in the protein shake 1000 mg fish oil, Creatine.
Snack 3 Oranges some cheese and Milk
Still have a ways to go befor i hit the sack but I will not tonight Have a flight to BC at 04:00 hours
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Hey guy\girls just got back from my trip it went well. To much partying and eating shit food but there is no more of that now I am back. You all have to try bungee jumping if you have not all ready. It was an amazing experience.
Woke up at 4:00 pm yikes. Got home at 1:30 am.
Dinner: Vegetables, curry, shrimp, stir-fry.
Snack: Cheese, milk, and raisins…
Work out:
Push-ups: 3x20 1x40
Pull-ups 1x12 1x6 1x5
Sit-ups with knee pull: 3x20
Sit-ups: 3x40
leg-raises: 3x40
Squats: 3x50