Looking to design a new workout for enlisting into the USMC, I’m in pretty good shape right now but I’d like to bulk up some before I head out. Right now I can do pull-ups and sit-ups at low-20’s and 100’s but my cardio could use a little work too.
Going to be on a clean bulk diet, chix, brown rice, natty pb, etc.
Thinking about maybe a 3 day a week compound lifts full-body and 3 days cardio with Sunday off, or maybe a 4-day split, with 2 days cardio? Or even 5 days with cardio after each workout? Not too sure.
The hard part will be bulking while doing cardio obviously, but I figure with a massive clean diet I can improve it while gaining some lbs.
You will most likely lose the bulk if you sign up and head to boot. Military is long prolonged exercises for long periods of time, you will burn up a lot of calories.
Why dont you just focus on low rest period weight training, high reps, and cardio? It would be more beneficial for training. Then when you graduate, start bulking.
Don’t waste your time trying to bulk before boot camp. Eat a ton, train hard, and do what repz said. You’ll leave bootcamp with a pretty pathetic level of strength and probably 10-20 pounds lost, even if you are skinny to begin with. I shipped at 5’11 145 and came back at 127. It was sickening. I’m 197 now but you get my point.
[quote]njrusmc wrote:
Don’t waste your time trying to bulk before boot camp. Eat a ton, train hard, and do what repz said. You’ll leave bootcamp with a pretty pathetic level of strength and probably 10-20 pounds lost, even if you are skinny to begin with. I shipped at 5’11 145 and came back at 127. It was sickening. I’m 197 now but you get my point.[/quote]
Bullshit I went in doing 12 pullups and left 15 lbs heavier doing 22 pullups and my weight room strength didn’t go down much and came back within a few months. When it’s time to eat, fucking stuff yourself. Put some of that peter pan peanut butter on those morning pancakes and eat everything on your plate. As far as getting ready just keep doing what your doing sounds like your on the right track physically.
[quote]njrusmc wrote:
Don’t waste your time trying to bulk before boot camp. Eat a ton, train hard, and do what repz said. You’ll leave bootcamp with a pretty pathetic level of strength and probably 10-20 pounds lost, even if you are skinny to begin with. I shipped at 5’11 145 and came back at 127. It was sickening. I’m 197 now but you get my point.[/quote]
Bullshit I went in doing 12 pullups and left 15 lbs heavier doing 22 pullups and my weight room strength didn’t go down much and came back within a few months. When it’s time to eat, fucking stuff yourself. Put some of that peter pan peanut butter on those morning pancakes and eat everything on your plate. As far as getting ready just keep doing what your doing sounds like your on the right track physically.[/quote]
I would be hitting the cardio at least 3-4 days per week as preparation, with at least two of those days being 3-5 miles at an 8 minute pace or faster. I think that lifting for preparation will help as well, and as Maiden said, as long as you eat everything in sight at the chow hall you shouldn’t lose the strength by graduation. I made the mistake of trying to eat “clean” my first couple of weeks there, and I started to lose way too much weight. Although we don’t require pushups for the PFT, make sure that you can do multiple sets of 30+ because you’ll be doing them in boot.
If you can run 3 miles in 21:00 and 5 miles in 40:00, you’ll be good on cardio. Remember, the pullups are where the points are at. Get your 20, rah. Good luck with your journey.
[quote]njrusmc wrote:
Don’t waste your time trying to bulk before boot camp. Eat a ton, train hard, and do what repz said. You’ll leave bootcamp with a pretty pathetic level of strength and probably 10-20 pounds lost, even if you are skinny to begin with. I shipped at 5’11 145 and came back at 127. It was sickening. I’m 197 now but you get my point.[/quote]
Bullshit I went in doing 12 pullups and left 15 lbs heavier doing 22 pullups and my weight room strength didn’t go down much and came back within a few months. When it’s time to eat, fucking stuff yourself. Put some of that peter pan peanut butter on those morning pancakes and eat everything on your plate. As far as getting ready just keep doing what your doing sounds like your on the right track physically.[/quote]
You’re one of the first people I’ve heard of gaining weight in bootcamp. I lost a good 10-15lbs and I was skinny to begin with. As for eating whatever you can, I didn’t have the option. We barely got enough time to eat what was on my plate and was never allowed to go get anything extra. Besides the warriors breakfast I was starved the entire 13 weeks!
Why would lean body mass be bad for boot camp? If you train your running/crunches/pullups and adjust your diet before you ship to minimize hunger pains, what negatives are there? Of course, if you’re over 160lbs you’ll lose weight but I’d personally rather bulk up as much as i can if i’m going to lose weight regardless… With more lean mass you have more potential for strength as I understand it. Forgive me if I am misinformed, but I just don’t see any negatives to more lean body mass pre-boot camp.
[quote]njrusmc wrote:
Don’t waste your time trying to bulk before boot camp. Eat a ton, train hard, and do what repz said. You’ll leave bootcamp with a pretty pathetic level of strength and probably 10-20 pounds lost, even if you are skinny to begin with. I shipped at 5’11 145 and came back at 127. It was sickening. I’m 197 now but you get my point.[/quote]
Bullshit I went in doing 12 pullups and left 15 lbs heavier doing 22 pullups and my weight room strength didn’t go down much and came back within a few months. When it’s time to eat, fucking stuff yourself. Put some of that peter pan peanut butter on those morning pancakes and eat everything on your plate. As far as getting ready just keep doing what your doing sounds like your on the right track physically.[/quote]
You’re one of the first people I’ve heard of gaining weight in bootcamp. I lost a good 10-15lbs and I was skinny to begin with. As for eating whatever you can, I didn’t have the option. We barely got enough time to eat what was on my plate and was never allowed to go get anything extra. Besides the warriors breakfast I was starved the entire 13 weeks!
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I can also say I got weaker and lighter in boot camp as well. I went in doing over 30 pull-ups, and graduated doing 23 or so. I was starved the whole time I was there, I was hungry every day with the exception of the Warrior’s Breakfast and Liberty Day. The only thing that improved for me was my running, I could run like Forrest Gump when I graduated. Semper fi, Parris Island is a special place for sure.
Recruit: *BANG BANG BANG on the DIs hatch.
DI: WHAT!!!
Recruit: Sir, Recruit Schmuckatelli request permission to…
DI: GO AWAY I’M WITH YOUR MOM!
Recruit: Aye sir!
[quote]Maximpulse wrote:
Why would lean body mass be bad for boot camp? If you train your running/crunches/pullups and adjust your diet before you ship to minimize hunger pains, what negatives are there? Of course, if you’re over 160lbs you’ll lose weight but I’d personally rather bulk up as much as i can if i’m going to lose weight regardless… With more lean mass you have more potential for strength as I understand it. Forgive me if I am misinformed, but I just don’t see any negatives to more lean body mass pre-boot camp.[/quote]
As an isolated example, bigger legs will hinder pull-ups, more LBM that doesn’t assist pull-ups will NEVER be a positive for pull-ups