How I would Train If I Were Re-Joining The Royal Marines 

Thanks very much for making videos like this

I am exhausted just watching this workout 😅 good work keep it up

Find a hill, sprint it to exhaustion,jog down and repeat.....

- Strength training (OHP, Bench, Squats, Deadlift) - Sprint intervals - Calisthenics (Burpees, push-ups, pull-ups, squats, lunges) - Zone 2 running - Loaded carries (Rucking, farmer carry) - Sled drags / pulls

The bottom field is a massive shock no matter how fit you are.remember the psychological impact it had on me on the prc 1984.

Good video, bast of luck with the channel

look after your back and keep in strong as possible i got MD (medical discharged) at week 27 because of this issue luckily i crossed over to the Navy, back injuries are very common. great video Royal

Mate currently serving RM myself , wanted to listen to something abit new and stumbled across you on the not so fit couple podcast and loved it mate , will be supporting everything you do from now on royal 👍

I’ve been out the corps for 7 years now. A couple of weeks ago I took up yoga, two classes a week I’ve started doing something called power yoga and all I could think the first time I did it was, turn off the relaxing music and this is like being thrashed at CTC. Lots of static static holds like high planks and squat positions and stuff. Genuinely the closest fitness class I’ve found replicates that unique type of exercise that is a troop thrashing, minus the sprints haha

Crossfit and endurance fitness, Alot with weighted vests. Lifting heavy weights superset with high intensity cardio.

If I knew what I knew now (US Army standpoint), I agree with you 2000%. I’d wish I tried out rucking a bit more beforehand, get my feet used to it, blisters and things like that. And get mentally ready for 2am smoke seasons with flutter kicks, push/press ups etc. And my final lesson to young me would be learn to hurry up and wait 😂

Royal Marines Reservist Green Beret in January 1988. Dundee Detachment. Only exercise looking back, I would do more is Weight Training as I was skinny. We were very lucky as several ex full time Royal Marines who joined civvy street from 45 Commando etc, served in Dundee as Reservists. Every one of these Gentlemen in Dundee were brilliant Teachers/Mentors. I think we had at least 2 ML's so PT was intense lol. First time I turned up to do PT , SGT. 'Taff' Jolly was gently breaking us new boys in, I crapped myself as he had the build of a 5 ft tall bodybuilder. I thought to myself 'Lets rethink and join the Medics'. Had a pint in the Navy Junior Rates Mess afterwards, well tried too but my hands and arms were shaking so much in pain, half the beer was spilling over me. So I thought to myself, how soon before I come back !! Every time I got a bollacking and had to do press ups I thought 'I am getting fitter quicker'. True story, pardon me for long paragraph.

Great vid, white t-shirt when? 👀

Doing endurance training is super important, regardless if it's directly used in your military training. It increases your ability to recover and allows you to progress your high intensity training faster. It enables you to have a big gas tank. You're going to think better, sleep better, recover better and not gas out as fast during high intensity sessions. Someone who doesn't have good aerobic fitness who goes straight into high intensity training isn't going to benefit from it as much.

When I looked at the RM the recruiter gave me a great leaflet about training. Sprints were right at the top. Body weight excersises, especially lifting your own body weight in pulls ups, climbing etc and runs with heavy packs.

I didn’t train until I joined! I didn’t have a clue. Still passed out of CTC though I did get back trooped and injured 🤣🤣🤣

Train to pass the entrance tests very well the progressive training will take care of the rest. Do not bulk up body weight exercises not body building crap. As a NOD I found the easiest exercise was the boot runs. The gym work and bottom field which is two periods of running but over the assault course repeatedly builds up running basics. Ex PW1.

What would your training look like if you were in RMR recruit training?

Modern commando tend to move from light infantry to a heavy infantry mindset

I just learnt I'm NOWHERE near as fit as I think I am.

Think I’ve came last in every “pays to be a winner” sprint thrashing ever. I must have zero fast twitch fibres in my body.

You dont need to turn up at CTC super human. The training team and the first 10 weeks will do the that especially the gym sessions/ camp circuits leading up to Gym passout. Bottom field is a different beast all togehter. I think back fondly and with some heavy regret at the time i spent at Lympstone in the past. Whilst there, just dont let injury and forgetting the reasons why you joined hold you back. Good luck.

Just got to smash it

i dont think you trained wrong. it sounds like you had a good base fittness. you said your traiing runs were based on long stamina runs but on the course the runs where much shorter. but the shorter runs happen often and continuously so the stamina you built up was not wasted

How times have changed,back in the early 80s if you couldnt swim when in trgyou got lessons also you didnt need to be a muscle man just be fit to start off with,its all in the head,seems nowadays emphasis is on upper body,ordinary blokes may not have the metabolism to look like a brick shithouse average height say 5 ft 5ins wiry build get fit run as fast as you can work hard.

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Why does everyone overthink becoming a bootneck. Turn up, do as you're told and get ashore..Simple!

My advice to anyone still at school looking to join would be to take up gymnastics Ex SADF parabat