What are the fitness requirements to be an army/marine musician?

What are the fitness requirements to be an army/marine musician?
Sorry, I meant specifics,

eg

100 sit ups in 4 minutes etc.

Answer
The same as anyone else in that Branch of the military, if in the Army you follow those regs same as if in the Marines!

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Your age will affect the requirements so just do a Internet search on the branch of the service you want to join.

After 10 years since studying Sports, could I still become a Fitness Instructor?

When I complete College, I will specialize in Fitness/Sports Instructing but I am planning to join the French Foreign Legion or RAF Regiment. After 10 years or so returning to Civvie life, could I get my 1st job as a fitness instructor!?! Or would I be slapped in the face because I have not studied it for 10 years.

Answer
of course

What level of fitness do you have to be at to become a trainee fitness instructor/personal trainer?

Do you need to be super fit and super thin and will they do a fitness test at interviews??

Answer
Think of it this way, would you go to a hairdresser with bad hair? How about a tattoo artist with no tattoos? Get my point?

You should be in good shape to be a trainer.

How can I get my fitness level back with my current job?

Since April of this yr, I am often on the road, visit customers and stay in hotels. I am a Sales person. I used to be very fit, running 4 times a week…It is hard to find an area where I can run or exercise. Now my belly is getting bigger, I am not eating healthily, I watch a lot of TV and I feel tired. How can I get my fitness level back with my current job? Any suggestions, welcome. Thanks.

Answer
Do these hotels have gyms? or you could go jogging in the areas around the hotel your staying at, just get a map of the area.

What would be a suitable fitness Ticklist for joining the Royal Marines?

So yeah im going to be signing the Application in a couple of months time, but before that i would like to get my fitness up a little and to a certain standard, The only problem is… what standard would that be, i know the training and fitness is going to be tough, really tough. But what would be a suitable ticklist before signing the sheets
like
1. 6 miles running
2. 20 pull ups
Etc etc

Thanks!

Answer
ok please bear in mind it is 28 years ago and our minds dim with age.
firstly you visit the local Royal Navy Careers office. They tell you that before they will register an application they have to see a demonstration of upper body strength (in those days pull ups). the guy said to me would i like to go away and practice (i always did look skinny!). Wow I thought, how many do they expect! so i asked him how many i had to do, he said ” i will need to see at least 3″ (three!) I laughed at him and said would ten do or should i do 20.
assume application goes through you will then do a 3 day test (lympstone).
main physical requirements;
1.5 miles in under 7mins30
at least 20 press ups
60 sit ups
as many pull ups as poss
shuttle runs.
If you don’t get these it is not the end, what counts is effort- they can get you fit if they believe in you.
bootnecks may not be perfect but they never give up.
good luck nice career choice

What is the maximum score you can get on fitness test for the ‘life fitness’ stepper at the gym?

At the gym, what is the maximum score you can get when you do the 3 minute fitness test? The stepper at the gym is the ‘life fitness’ stepper.

Answer
Either call the gym on the phone or ask them when you’re there.

What are the best diets and fitness regimes you’ve tried that you maintained and made you lose a lot of weight?

Give names and details if you can. And how long you were able to keep going on the diet and fitness regimes.

Also what was your motivation?

Answer
Forget about losing weight. Just adopt a healthy lifestyle.Eat a good healthy diet and excercise a lot!!! The more excercise you do the better!

For a healthy diet, you need to be eating small to medium meals regularly. 4 or even 5 times a day. Each meal (apart from breakfast which should preferably be fibre rich), should contain a balanced ammount of carbohydrates for energy, (from potatoes, rice and pasta, etc) protien (from fish, chicken, occassional red meat is fine, soya is good too) and plenty of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants (simple fresh fruit and veg). Eat like this and make sure you are well hydrated (fruit juice is as good as water, any fluid counts, but some fluids have negative effects too, such as alcohol or caffiene rich drinks.)

Now for the science bit: Protien is essential for repairing muscle and keeping the muscle you do have healthy (this includes your heart, lungs, brain etc). You naturally lose the ammount of protien you have throughout the day (through urine etc) so this needs to be replenished regularly on a daily basis.

Carbohydrates are essential for energy. You won’t be able to function without it. It also regulates body fat and glucose etc.

Vitamins and minerals are obviously essential for a variety of reasons. For normal growth and development, for the healthy maintenance of the cells, tissues, and organs that make up our bodies, and also to let us efficiently use chemical energy provided by food.

You can have a wide range of healthy meals with this, from Thai, Chinese, Italian, British, Indian, etc. Just make sure each meal contains balanced ammounts of these three. On the bright side too, fresh veg and rice and pasta is a lot cheaper than crappy junk food!

This doesn’t mean you cant have chocolate or pizza/takeaway/etc, just save them as very occassional treats.

The big secret to keeping a healthy weight and staying healthy is EXCERCISE, particularly cardio excercise.

Cardio exercise includes any form of excercise such as running/jogging/swimming/cycling etc that gets your heart rate pumping and you sweating and out of breath. It will not only burn calories and reduce your body fat levels, therefore making you ’slimmer’ by having less fat on you, but will also improve your resting heart rate and lung function, making you healthier.

I cannot understate the importance of cardio excercise. It is this which will basically burn the body fat off you.

But you have to remember that once you have shed a bit of fat you have to have a nice toned body underneath the fat to show off.

Strength training will help you strengthen and tone your muscles. This is done with the use of weights or by free training.

There are essentially (without getting overly complicated) two types of strength excercises based on different types of muscle fibres depending on wether you want to build size, bulk and power, or just ‘tone’ up the lean muscles an get more muscle endurance.

Heavy weights with short reps/sets will build your fast twitch muscle fibres and build size, power and strength. Imagine big guys at the gym lifting heavy weights.

But if you use light to medium weights with lots of reps/sets you will excercise your slow twitch muscle fibres, you wont build size, but you will tone up your body and train muscle endurance. This will obviously make you ‘look’ healthier and more toned, but will also increase your metabolism (as your muscles demand more energy) so you will burn calories faster. These muscles are also excercised a lot with cardio workouts (i.e your leg muscles when running).

Your arms for example, will need bicep curls and tricep dips using weights and reps of your choice (heavy – low reps, light – lots of reps) and also shoulder excercises such as holding the weights at your waist and lifting them perpendicular to your side or in front of you, etc etc.

Your stomach will need excercises that cover the entire torso. Leg raises for your lower ab wall, crunches, sit ups and planks for your upper and all over ab wall, oblique twists for your sides and superman stretches for your lower back for example.

These are just basic examples, there are literally hundreds of excercises, but it is impossible to show you on a site like this, get a trainer at your gym to show you some but remember the basic rules of muscles and weights.

As far as excercise goes, you should aim to strike a balance between cardio training and strength training, this way you will build good strong and toned muscle, but also keep your body fat levels down and increase your heart and lung performance, making you much fitter and healthier.

What are the best websites for fitness programs I can do at home?

Preferably with no equipment.
I know I can do a google search but I was wondering if there are any particularly good websites for fitness etc.
Nothing I have to pay for please.

Answer
Hi Hattie! there are several websites that can help you with that, but if you want to do fitness at home especially with out equipment, that’s good because it can help you save some extra cash, compared to buying those drastic fitness equipments, do it in some other effective ways instead.

Here are my cardio workout which i always do at home:

* Jumping Jacks
* Plank
* Mountain Climbers
* Side Hops (hop side to side over a dumbbell – you can use anything to jump over)
* Sprint in Place (I hold my hands out and make sure me knees touch them each time)
* Body Weight Squats
* Burpee
* Stationary Reverse Lunge

What Regular fitness tests do you have to take within the police force?

When you are in the police force what fitness tests (if any) do you regularly have to take? I.e any yearly tests?

Answer
You have to be able to pick up a box of donuts.

What would be a suitable fitness Ticklist for joining the Royal Marines?

So yeah im going to be signing the Application in a couple of months time, but before that i would like to get my fitness up a little and to a certain standard, The only problem is… what standard would that be, i know the training and fitness is going to be tough, really tough. But what would be a suitable ticklist before signing the sheets
like
1. 6 miles running
2. 20 pull ups
Etc etc

Thanks!

Answer
ok please bear in mind it is 28 years ago and our minds dim with age.
firstly you visit the local Royal Navy Careers office. They tell you that before they will register an application they have to see a demonstration of upper body strength (in those days pull ups). the guy said to me would i like to go away and practice (i always did look skinny!). Wow I thought, how many do they expect! so i asked him how many i had to do, he said ” i will need to see at least 3″ (three!) I laughed at him and said would ten do or should i do 20.
assume application goes through you will then do a 3 day test (lympstone).
main physical requirements;
1.5 miles in under 7mins30
at least 20 press ups
60 sit ups
as many pull ups as poss
shuttle runs.
If you don’t get these it is not the end, what counts is effort- they can get you fit if they believe in you.
bootnecks may not be perfect but they never give up.
good luck nice career choice