These aren’t cheats, just really good technique. I’ll teach you the best cheat ever that I learned in the 82nd that almost doubled my push-up score. Start doing your push-ups in the position he showed you. When you start to max out, rotate your hands slightly inward and start doing push-ups that way. When you max out in that position, rotate your hands even farther inward and go until you max out that way. After you’ve maxed out rotating your hands inward, rotate them all the way back to the way you were and continue doing push-ups. When you get tired that way, rotate them outward, so on and so forth. You’ll find this is triggering slightly different areas in your muscles and give you chest and arm strength you didn’t even know you had. My sit-up cheat you have probably already heard of. After you come up, let gravity throw your body to the ground. Never lower yourself to the ground. Sit-ups should feel like you're slapping the sh#t out of the ground with your body! Here is my 2 mile run cheat: nothing, it’s absolutely miserable and I hate freaking running. Here’s to the bad #sses who can go infantry for an entire career!
I'm prior AF but doing Army ROTC. Our pushups (AF) were designed for one minute but the Army does it for 2. I use this method during my APFT and never get less than 80 pushups. Extremely helpful
82nd has some of the fittest dudes in the military. I was a pog 63b1p and even I had 102 push ups in 2minutes as a 82nd trooper. My niece just graduated usmc boot and she can do ...12. AATW
Old Green Beret sayings: 1. If you aint cheatin, you aint tryin. If you get caught, you weren't trying hard enough. 2. Deny everything, admit nothing, and make counter-accusations!
You could peel off and hit the latrine on your first lap, then try to drift back in when the majority are on their last lap. At least that's what an E5 from our company did. He got caught and was chaptered, but its an idea.
Best "cheat" is to do warm up pushups 5-10 minutes before you're due to go, and after that warmup just keep moving in place, moving your arms and such. The idea is to get keep your heart rate up and your blood flowing. Then when you hear the 1 minute warning of the person ahead of you who is doing the pushups, stop moving and start taking big breaths to increase blood oxygenation. By the time it's your turn to start, your body will be primed. After pushups, same thing for situps. Knock out a small set and then keep moving with the same rest and breathing before you go. Then same thing for the run. When you're done with the situps, ideally go take a shit if you can, and run to the bathroom to do so. Failing that, jog around for a minute or so and then keep moving. When you move to the starting line, rest and breath. Then when you start the run, don't try to run too hard at the beginning like everyone else does before gassing themselves.
B.s. they just stand right behind someone way taller. Used to have guys stand behind me that I was almost a foot taller than and here I am lifting their load. Because they're too short to really do anything
BS!!! How 18X cheats on push ups is: “Hey Steve, how many do you normally do? Got it. What about you Matt? Got it. Oh, and Russ you normally do 3 more than Matt right?!? Ok, lets go work out for real and then go eat”.
Dude. These tips are awesome! I always flared my elbows when doing push-ups. I wish that I’d known this stuff back in the day! Too late for me now! Great stuff!
On the situps, which I maxed waaay back before my hot dad bod, I'd throw myself back and use the bounce to come back up. It was easier to throw the weight back and bounce up and finish half a sit-up. I'd get 80 some situps on average. Highest as 90 something. But I also learned later, once I maxed that shit, save the rest for the run. Forget what that short timer tells you about giving it your all. You already maxed it. Who cares about the rest. But I was just a mechanized leg grunt 🤷♂️
The best way to "Cheat" on situps is to throw yourself back at the top and bounce off the ground. Breath out right when you're hitting the ground and breath in on the way up. You basically use a quarter of the muscle you would otherwise use, it's 75% momentum. I always maxed out with the bounce.
FYI, to anyone attending Ranger Assessment and Selection...be careful doing push ups in the manner that they show in this video. When I went through we were straight up told that 'tricep pushups' would not count.
"No other method of bracing the feet is authorized" Or something like that, I don't remember the exact verbiage. Standing or kneeling on feet is not allowed.
We used to have the person grab your ankles, move so that their crotch was over their hands, then basically sit on their hands. No complaints from my unit.
Damn I've been doing sit ups wrong. When I tried the "straighten your legs" technique it actually helps build momentum coming back up. I'm an idiot. Ive been using only my ab muscles this whole time.
The push up technique should actually be based on which muscle is strongest, your chest or tri's. If your chest is stronger go wider, if it's weaker go closer. For the acft you are limited to a close stance, so if your chest is stronger turn your finger tips inward
Ah. I was doing the opposite on the situps. I thought having your butt closer to your heals was better. Thanks for the tip. I have a month to get my situps up to par for the PAST test. Thanks guys!
Push-up advice is on point. Unfortunately, soldiers aren't allowed to let their knees exceed 90 degrees during the sit-up event, so lengthening the legs is impossible.
If you read the army regs, your knees have to stay at 90 degrees the whole time damn near. If your legs are straight as you mentioned, they are not counted. It even says that if the knees exceed 90 degrees that they are not counted.
have my PAT in about a month. Hoping these tips will help me out a bit especially on the situp portion which is always the first thing they start with.
For anyone joining the navy. I reccommend you dont learn the full let go shit when your on the upper position your PO is going to show you the miracles of DOLLAR curl ups which is basically mid curl up 0.25 % curl up and 0.75% curl up.
Just curious, how will the new ACFT effect the PT test required for 18x and opp 40 candidates? Will they still be tested on the old PT system or the new?
Thank you ! Waiting for age waiver and planning on shipping in january. Been training 4 months now. 36 but I'm hoping to get special forces. Any advise sir ?
The regulation states legs must be at a 90 degree angle during the APFT. So yes that's a cheat and if your grader does what he or she is supposed to do that repetition will not count. The other cheat would be to not go all the way down or all the way up during the pushup to be able to knock out more pushups.
If it isn’t required DONT go past 90 degrees! I see a lot of people smashing chest to ground and destroying their joints for no reason and only getting to 30 when they could have reached 50-60.
It's exactly 110yrs ago to the day when I was 10th Mountain Infantry🤪😝😜 we'd always know when it was around PT test time. About a month before test, we did ONLY agonizingly slow cadence 4 count diamond pushups. So slow, you'd fart sparks on every 4th count🤣😜 BUT come PT test time, we all almost maxed out reps. Of course they take a lil here and there off for form (they have to😉 nobody's perfect). But it worked for the entire company. Nothin' but Diamonds a month before. It even worked for our 1st Sgt. Whom we lovingly called Garfield. We swore he had a PT waiver and just walked around CQ eating lasagna all day😝 Great Top, but he looked 9mths preggers daily.
I believe adding weight lifting and fast twitch exercises. With minimal iso ab work is best. Say work abs 3 times a week. 6 days weight lifting and fast twitch. Makes for a solid performing body.
Is not really a cheat for the military there is a workout for strengthening your body and one to pass the test. For the first option, there is a ton of information available while the latter is more focus on energy and efficiency. The military does not give a damn how much a proper position push up or sit-ups you do as long you meet the required position. Is better to create a push-up and sit up routine for the test that focuses on numbers since that is how everyone is graded.
I couldn't find a video on your channel. If you would upload a video on pull-ups, and 3 mile runs I'd appreciate it. I try to engage my core and it's supposed to help with pull-ups but I have a hard time doing so. I have done 18 (in compliance with the USMC rules) pull-ups but haven't done more. I am following greasing the groove method with weights and hopefully it will help me get 23 or more pull-ups. For 3 mile run, I nearly got 20 minutes but want to get 19:30 at latest. Please do video on these cheats, I mean tips.
