Super Dean Karnazes a Navy SEAL?

I'd hate to change my training schedule with work and the kids to haul around. I guess I must have a cute ass. I sure worked like hell to get it. Anchors aweigh... ;-)

TrackCoach is hitting the crititcal piece. On the APFT prior to Ranger School I did 105 pushups 98 situps and ran 9:44 for 2-mile on the track. At Ranger School they lined us up on the side of the road and began the APFT by telling the first guy to get down and begin. They do not tell you the time or how many of your repititions they are counting. You only have to do 65 correct pushups and 55 correct situps. When you get to that number the RI just said, "Get up." The guys who never heard those words were simply sent home so in order to avoid getting sent home you did very slow, perfect pushups and situps, making sure to lock out and go all the way down. This test doesn't tell you how many you can actually do. Disclaimer: I went in 1992 and a lot has changed since then.

The rest of the school is just survival. The runs, the ruck marches, and land navigation is to be completed in the alotted time and not to see who can do it fastest.

If you want to see them at their best I suggest you go to the Best Ranger Competition and see how well you think you would stack up. They are much more fit than you think. It's easy to sit at a computer as a skinny young runner, reading the raw data and say you could do the things they do but you haven't done it on 3 hours of sleep and after swimming with combat gear, low crawling with your hands in your cargo pockets and eating one meal a day. There is a difference.

in my 4 years of active duty-I never, ever saw a single Marine score 300. Its just not that easy and a 300 is not rattled off regularly, far, far from it. Boots are not tough to run in? Are you for real?

That is sad if you have never seen a Marine score 300. In 7 years of active duty, plus 2 summers of OCS, I guess I took 20 PFT's (2 per year + 6 inventory at OCS), I always scored 300. There were also 15-20 guys in OCS and 4-5 in my squadron which regularly scored 300. Most of the troops did not and I don't want to start a big Officer vs. Enlisted thread, but that is probably the reason you never saw it.

As far as the boots, I had my favorite pair of nicely, worn boots which I used for any boot running excercise. Slower than flats - yes; hard to run in - no. The high speed boots I see troops using today, are practically sneakers. The seldom used Marine "PRT"(not PFT) calls for a 3m run in boots + weapon, which I could do in 18 minutes as well. I think a lot of dudes on this board could do it.

Its just not that easy and a 300 is not rattled off regularly, far, far from it.

I guess I would let this board respond, but I think this would be an easy, daily regimen for many on this board:

*20 pull-ups (if you can do 10 without practice, you can do 20 within 2 weeks)

*80 sit-ups in 2minutes

*3miles in 18:00

The entire workout/test takes about 30 minutes including warm-up.

Fitter Happier wrote:

That is sad if you have never seen a Marine score 300. In 7 years of active duty, plus 2 summers of OCS, I guess I took 20 PFT's (2 per year + 6 inventory at OCS), I always scored 300. There were also 15-20 guys in OCS and 4-5 in my squadron which regularly scored 300. Most of the troops did not and I don't want to start a big Officer vs. Enlisted thread, but that is probably the reason you never saw it.

The most PFT 300's I saw were from PFC to Corporal, typically 17-19 year olds. Many of the older Marines were wasted on LSD, weed, booze. Some of the draftees were fast on thei toes, typically they were the most mentally wasted bunch of all.