Comments on: Are You As Fit As a World War II GI?

By: CyrusLane

CyrusLane — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:30:28 +0000

I’m sure I just didn’t read carefully enough -
but I don’t see where it says how many reps of each exercise are required. Anyone?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:44:59 +0000

It just occured to me that we do all of this at Jesuit football as a WARM UP exercise…

By: janus

janus — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:23:11 +0000

There’s a special gas just for greenhouses now? And it’s made in America? Wow!

But seriously, it isn’t that people are oversupplied with energetic nutrients, but simply that most people just don’t do manual labor anymore. There are just too many “labor saving” devices out there, and most are unnecessary unless you are getting on in years.

Also, a job i had once required me to shift boxes around, which weighed up to 50lbs, and I was told off by a supervisor for just doing it by myself rather than getting another person to help. 50lbs just isn’t that much when you just have to pick it up and move it 2ft, as long as you use proper lifting technique.

Just a symptom of the real disease, and that is, we are eliminating the drive and ‘gumption’ that people had.

By: arnab

arnab — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:02:40 +0000

the question is why the fitness of man reduces so much? who’s responsible for it? pollution, fast food, junk food, genetically modified food,TV culture were not in the time of WWII as they are now.

these factors perhaps are responsible for decay of physical fitness. well america is the largest producer of greenhouse gas. mind that.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:43:38 +0000

LOL @ kevin burke. dude, im sure you are in way better shape than me. but i must admit i had to chuckle at your listing and stats for your workouts. kudos on the goals though. keep it up. and i will try a start building to a respectable routine for myself.

as to the article, oorah, and right on. some of the positioning is outdated, as has already been mentioned, but in many ways, we slack and take the easy route out. man up America….. i’ll stop now because i feel a rant coming on that would not stay on topic…

By: Ole Wall

Ole Wall — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:03:09 +0000

When I took the US Army Basic Physical Fitness Test in 1974 for ROTC the first time, it included running 2 miles in under 15 minutes in issued combat boots, 50 pushups, 50 bent-leg sit-ups, 50-foot(?) duck walk, and overhead bars-20 feet, 4 sets without drop. The standards had dropped for women to 1 mile run, 30 each situps and pushups, and half the men’s duck walk and overhead bars. It all had to be done in 1 afternoon, one test after the other, with 10 min breather between tests. We did the run on the college’s oval track, and all else was done on college football field. On final test, was same, 1977.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:07:12 +0000

The Army APFT is changing and has change in some locations. Also the is a combat fitness test in full battle gear.

By: kevin burke

kevin burke — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:33:47 +0000

“Nice reference to CrossFit!! Best fitness program going. Killer in it’s execution and exact in it’s science.” — Trent

Yeah, I told someone else what I do and they said I should check out cross fit. Honestly, though, I’m getting the results I want from a modified NAVY SEALs BUD/s exercise regimen so I see no reason to do crossfit right now. What I do is probably really close to crossfit or about the same. I base my exercises off of what the SEALs do in order to prepare to pass the final BUD/s (basic underwater demolition) test. I lost 30 pounds but I probably lost more than 30 pounds of fat since I put on lean muscle and muscle ways more than fat. I seriously look really close to Brad Pitt in Fight club. Anyway to give you an idea of my exercise regimen it is close to this (which the NAVY SEALs do during the final weeks of BUD/s training to prepare for the test :

- 20 X 20 Push-ups
- 25 X 25 Push-ups
- 5 X 12 Pull-ups
- 20 X 15 DIPS
-20 x 25 situps

Run (5/6/6/6/4) miles 27 miles/week

They also swim Swim continuously for 75 min. with fins 4-5 days a week.

I don’t swim but I also do ‘commando pullups’, chinups and I run more than they do. I average 6 miles 5-7 days a week. So that is how I try to compensate I also add 10-15 pounds on my back for the pullups, chinups and dips so people might consider my workout to be more hardcore than even the NAVY SEALs. I admit that most people would consider my workouts to be insane but I’m an intense guy who is a perfectionist. If you guys want to get in the best shape of your life then do something like I do or do crossfit.

By: Trent

Trent — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:13:20 +0000

Nice reference to CrossFit!! Best fitness program going. Killer in it’s execution and exact in it’s science. “Forging Elite Fitness through Constantly Varied, Functional Movement executed at a High Intensity” indeed. Extremely difficult. Extremely effective. Extremely valuable. Extremely doable. I’ve lost 60lbs I didn’t even know I had extra and more so: gained mental strength I didn’t know. Check it out: you won’t be disappointed.

By: Kevin Burke

Kevin Burke — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:55:16 +0000

Actually, I just decided that I’m going to do 20 (sets) x 15 (repetitions) of dips with 10 pounds on my back tonight. I already did chinups, ‘commando pullups’, and regular pullups with weight on my back and I also did pushups already. Reason why I was only doing 10×12 dips, with weight on my back, was because I was lowering my body ridiculously low to the ground bending my elbows way past 90 degrees when in fact it should be doing them only slightly below 90 degrees with my elbows. Anyway, I was pushing myself to extremes. But now I should be able to do the 20×15. I also can do more than 20 pushups at once etc.. but I find 20×20 with very short rests between sets is better than doing a bunch of sets with the most you can do to muscle failure. Hoohah ! Any out of shape bastards reading this : get off your ass and put down the potato chips !