Did you do pushups every single day? I've always learned to not work out same muscles 2 days in a row but thinking about changing how I train
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How can I be competitive for EOD?
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Yes, but I didn't go from 0 to 200 pushups, I worked my way up to that level. Also work on the supporting muscles groups (shoulders, triceps). You'll be surprised how much having strong triceps and shoulders will help.
Have some new questions for you all, hope you don't mind. I'm not able to find specific requirements for the events online.
I haven't been able to find too much info online. The best thing I could get was a video on youtube showing divers and eod doing a prt, but they don't really show too much and don't go into the specifics. Do I figured I would ask here. Just want to make sure I'm practicing all the events properly. Don't want to be told that I need to do it a certain way the day of.
- Pushups- Can elbows be out or do they have to be tucked in when doing? Or everything OK as long as I go to 90 degrees?
- Situps - Fingers crossed behind the neck or arms crossed in front of body?
- Swim- Someone told me that head should always be out of the water for the test but that can't be right right? I've been practicing head underwater, and only bring my head up to breathe.
I haven't been able to find too much info online. The best thing I could get was a video on youtube showing divers and eod doing a prt, but they don't really show too much and don't go into the specifics. Do I figured I would ask here. Just want to make sure I'm practicing all the events properly. Don't want to be told that I need to do it a certain way the day of.
Combat sidestroke. It’s the same kick, stroke, and glide, but you look where you’re going and hold a knife in tour teeth.
the knife in your teeth is the most important part!
technically breast stroke is allowed, but don’t do it. You’ll be expected to use CSS, and it’s a better, faster, more relaxing stroke once you get it. Your head can go underwater, and should when you get a good strong push off the wall. Look up YouTube tutorials on combat side stroke. Where are you stationed? You can hit up a local EOD or dive locker, I’m sure someone would be willing to run a PST on you and help with form some.
push-ups, your elbows do not have to be tucked. 45 degrees is usually good, whatever works for you, just break 90 and full extension.
Sit-ups are across your chest, holding your shoulders. Elbows touch your knee at the top, all the way down at the bottom (head does not have to touch the ground, just shoulder blades… but most of your shoulder blades.)
like I said, get someone qualified to run a PST on you to run a practice one or two. The very first one is eye-opening no matter how prepared you are.
How is the prep going?
Prep is going OK. Swim and pullups are the hardest for me right now. Doing about 200-300 pushups a day for now and looking to get a pullup bar set up in my room so I can practice those everyday too. I guess the pushups 90 degrees depend on the counter / grader right? The youtube video I was watching had a guy in it who was just above 90 and I wondered if they would have counted. My pushups look like that sometimes too but they seemed to be counting them. Hard to tell of course but I keep seeing some sketchy pushups
there can be some variations. I’ve also seen a lot of “chest hits your buddies fist”, which for long armed guys is sometimes more than 90, for shorter arms it can be less. Also depends on the grader to a degree, and also what PST. Contracting PSTs and “day 2” PSTs are very strict. Practice ones can be less so. And studs tend to get less attention, the weaker guys take most of the attention. In any event, training for 90 or a little past will only help if someone isn’t being as strict.
Swim is all practice. More time in the pool is your friend. I would do an easy 500 warm up, rest a minute or two, do a timed 500, and then form work for another 500. That’s a mile. Do that a couple of times a week.
Pullups, as I’ve said, I’m a huge Armstrong Pull-up Program fan to get to 15+. Then switch to weighted 2 or 3 times a week.
That's awesome. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out the best way to train for the swim. I'm pretty confident with my running and weights programming but I feel like I'm just practicing swimming without much structure right now. Appreciate you
I can't remember if I posted this here or in another thread but the key to swimming is to swim more. Find a local pool or swim team and see if someone can do private lessons/coaching.
Do you think it would be a good idea to get a coach for sidestroke? I get the feeling people outside the navy don't really do this stroke. So far I've been practicing alone, I take a video of myself every now and then to check form. I know a coach who used to swim competitively and trains some Army SF ; I showed her one of my videos and got the impression that she hasn't really ever trained anyone in this stroke. I thought about maybe 1-2 lessons to learn how to train for swimming (like interval training, how often to do hard and easy swims etc) but don't know if it would be worth it to pay someone to help me with the stroke itself?
Yeah the stroke itself is a weird one since it's not widely used outside of the military (I swam and lifeguarded for years but never heard about combat sidestroke until the USN). A coach could help with general swimming improvement. A good coach should be able to learn a new stroke and work with you on it but you'd be growing together. Not sure if you're near an NSW/Spec Ops location where you could find someone. Or maybe digital coaching?
Or maybe some ex-team guy at the local VFW/Legion.