Some background on this - I'm a Junior level college student currently working towards a bachelor of science (and a fast track program for a masters of science) in economics/IR. After I graduate in 4 years (give or take 6 months depending on what route I take with the free graduate school), I'm going to be signing up with the (Marines) Officer Candidacy School and serve for several years.
I've read through a lot of the diet plans and workouts on the sticky/elsewhere over the past couple years, but nothing has really led me to an answer on what I want
- and that is to get as (practical) physically strong and build up the most endurance I can prior to entering the OCS program fully, this obviously includes cardio based endurance as well - if I had to break it down in to the long term goals to achieve before the end of the next 4 years
> - Develop a consistent healthy diet with some supplements if recommended
> - Lower my mile run time from 10 minutes to 7:30 or lower
> - Be able to run 3 miles while carrying a sizeqble amount of weight on my torso (assume 75 lbs.)
> - Be able to sustain good-form simple excercises like pull ups and push ups indefinitely (to a reasonable point) to survive OCS training
> - (This is the weirder one) I want to work on increasing my flexibility too for the sake of preventing injury when really forcing myself ( thinking of trying Bikram Yoga for this, friend highly recommends it to me)
> - Lift a yet undetermined amount (I need to figure out what a reasonable goal will be)
I'm currently in decent shape, though currently only minor (ineffective imo) weight training, and the major thing being a runner (run atleast 5-10 miles a week) with a poor diet as I only recently got moved in to my own place so I haven't had time to figure out a healthy food plan.
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