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Showing posts with label Military Workout. Show all posts

Should You Become A Soldier?

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It is an undeniable fact that the youth of every country is greatly fascinated by the life of a soldier. A soldier’s life is full of adventures. They are the real assets of any countries. They join the army and are always ready to sacrifice their for the sake of their country defense. This blog similar to Huffpost is instrumental that will help you assess whether you can become a soldier if you possess the following features: 

Physical Fitness 

Physical fitness is essential for a soldier to participate in many military activities. Military physical training of a soldier starts just from the day he enters the army. Even his selection in the army is easy if he is already physically strong. The long hour’s duties on borders, assigned duties at war places, withstanding in harsh weather conditions, makes a soldier’s job as one of the toughest things to do in the world. Such duties can only be well performed if you have a strong body. 

Patriotism 

Being patriotic is one of the important features in a person who wishes to become a soldier. A true soldier loves his country and puts the interest of the country above his interests. He has to be selfless. Even he has to spend a great deal of time away from their loved ones. 

Mentally And Emotionally Strong 

If you want to serve your country and want to be a soldier, you have to be mentally and emotionally strong. Mental fitness is as important as physical fitness for a soldier. Staying away from family for unpredictable days, watching people killed during war times, very high, or very low weather temperature may emotionally de track anyone. But a true soldier is trained to manage these fears, emotions in such hard times. Therefore, emotional strength gives you a great opportunity of becoming a soldier. 

Obedience 

During military training, soldiers are trained to obey the commands given by their seniors. They cannot question them or deliberately disobey their commands. Disobeying may results in serious consequences during training and if such behavior is not changed, it may lead the soldier expelled out of the army. The reason is that during wartime, the commands by senior officers have to be followed at every cost. If any of the soldiers disobey during war time, disastrous consequences may happen that may lead that group of an army to their tragic defeat. 

IQ Level 

If you have a high IQ then you have better chances to be a soldier. This is because, the soldiers not only fight in wars but they also play their role in developing countries where they work as facilitators of their government’s foreign policy, military exercises, and humanitarian relief missions and taking part in peacekeeping operations. Such strategies need a person with a good IQ level. One has to be witty while making strategies and plans for such affairs. 

Punctual 

A soldier has to be quite punctual in his routine. Punctuality is a powerful quality that motivates a soldier to complete any task on time. Military training trains a soldier by giving them the limited time of eating, talking, taking a bath, or even tying the shoelaces. Such training helps a soldier to be punctual at all times. Thus you should practice being very punctual if you wish to become a soldier. 

Family History 

If you have to say one, two or even more people in your family already in the army, then you may have better chances of getting entry into the army as a soldier. The interviewer may observe your personality and attitude of an army person if you had been following your family members of the army. 

Discipline 

Discipline is the trait that is directly related to a soldier. Without discipline, you cannot become a soldier. You have to practice discipline in your daily lifestyle. We see unique discipline during soldier parade. A sense of unity we witness when we see such graceful parade by our army soldiers. 

To conclude, we can say, being a soldier seems so charming and fascinating but in reality, it is very challenging and a job of great national responsibilities. We sleep peacefully while our soldiers are awake performing their duties. We cannot deny that a soldier safeguard’s the honor of his country. Thus you have to adopt the above-mentioned characteristics to become a soldier.

Does HIIT Exercise Work Or Is It A Marketing Ploy?


Frugal Fitness Workout Question:  Does High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) work or is it simply a marketing gimmick?

Frugal Fitness Answer:

I have a unique perspective on this because my degree is in exercise physiology and I spent 10 years as highly credentialed personal trainer / nutrition consultant… but I’ve transitioned to a career as a digital marketing manager full time over the last 5-6 years. 

Anyways, High Intensity Interval Training as an exercise technique works very well. It's a staple in military style workouts that also carry over into fitness boot camps, sport practice training, group exercise classes, and other common formats. And depending on the equipment you use (or lackthereof) it can be a very frugal workout option. It’s an efficient way to burn calories, boost metabolism, improve endurance, and build lean muscle. Great for people short on time and/or training for some sports. Not quite as ideal for bodybuilders, powerlifters, or strictly endurance athletes like marathon runners. It depends on your purpose for training whether you should utilize HIIT for a portion of your workouts, or possibly the majority of your workouts. 

But fitness marketing companies of course will exaggerate its benefits and claim it to have miraculous effects. It’s a great workout strategy for many people but it’s not necessarily the best option for everyone and it’s certainly not going to reverse years of inactivity and poor nutrition within a matter of weeks or even months. 

Also keep in mind that “high intensity intervals” are relative to the person performing the exercise. What an elite athlete considers low intensity training could easily be considered high intensity for a sedentary or middle-aged person.

Hopefully this is helpful when deciding whether to incorporate HIIT into your frugal workout sessions.

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Free Home Chest Workout

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Enjoy this free home chest frugal workout to strengthen, tone, and build up your pec muscles. It's also great for building up some muscular endurance. Not everyone has a full home gym or gym membership so doing a comprehensive total chest training workout isn't possible. This is the next best thing that doesn't require any equipment, just your body weight and a couple items around the house. 

x = 1 set

Do modified pushups (from your knees instead of toes) if necessary

1x Warmup set of 15-20 Pushups

3x Wide Pushups pronated grip (knuckles facing forward)
3x Wide Pushups neutral grip (knuckles facing outward)
2x Close Grip Knuckle Pushups neutral grip
2x Incline Pushups (feet up on stair, chair, or bench)
3x Chest Flies (use gallon jugs of water or similar for weights)
3x Incline Chest Flies (add mid-upper back support if needed)

1x Burnout set of 20+ Pushups

You could also through in some dips here and there if you have some makeshift parallel bars, such as 2 stools or raise stable chairs to hold you up. 

Make sure to stay even and that you aren't compensating on your stronger side or you could end up with uneven pecs.

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Free Home Boot Camp Conditioning Workout

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Burn fat, build endurance, and increase your lean muscle with this free home workout. Alternate exercises, minimize breaks between sets, and use a step / stair for your bodyweight dips, upper body stepups, and even pushups. No actual equipment needed!

1x 30s Jumping Jacks (Warmup)

3x Pushups
3x Bodyweight Dips
3x Burpees
3x Jumping Jacks
3x Situps
3x Upper Body Stepups
3x Planks w/ Alternating Leg Raises

30 Second Plank (Burnout exercise)

Add even more of a challenge by throwing in some jump squats or alternating explosive lunges!!

It won't take long but it will burn a ton of bodyfat!

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Losing Weight & Training for Marine Corps Enlistment



Military Fitness Question:

Hi I'm 17 Yrs. Old Im 6' 0" 6' 1" An I Need To Cut 25--30lbs in 1 Year To Enlist In The Marine Corps. And I Try An Lose Weight But For Some Reason It Is Really Hard I'm Starting To Do Cardio 5-7 Days A Week An I Workout 5-7 Days A Week An I Try To Eat Healthy All The Time Yet I'm Still 225-230 Could You Help Me Out. Thank You Your Are Also The First Person With These Fitness Videos To Respond To Me As Well. 



Frugal Fitness Answer:

Glad to help out when I can, thank you for watching my videos and more importantly deciding to enlist to help serve your country! I always appreciate those that are stronger and tougher than myself and willing to make a sacrifice for the United States that have been so good to me. There are several things that I want you to make sure that you are doing to prepare physically as well as lose that required weight. 

First off, make sure that your diet is helping you and not hurting you by splitting up your daily eating into 6 small meals per day, about 350-400 calories per meal/snack on average. Opt for plenty of vegetables, oatmeal, brown rice, Kashi cereal, sweet potatoes, vegetables, skim milk, almonds, natural peanut butter, grilled chicken, salmon, tuna, whey protein powder, green tea, hummus, and water during the majority of your meals. Avoid soda, fatty dairy products, too much fruit, sweets, fast food, desserts, processed white breads and rice, pizza, burgers, subs, large plates of pasta (even if it's whole grain), and fruit juice. Don't eat anything 2-3 hours before you go to bed if possible.


As for military style workouts, you need to be doing cardio 5-6 days per week, 30-60 minutes per day. I would recommend doing half running, and the other half on a road bike, exercise bike, elliptical, row machine, stair-master, boxing, jump rope, etc so you get in plenty of variety without overdoing it on the joints as much. Make sure during your cardio you include some high intensity intervals every 5 minutes or so, which means you significantly increase your normal pace / incline / resistance for at least 30 seconds and then go back to your normal pace. Repeat that process for each of your cardio sessions for optimal fat loss and increased metabolism.


Resistance training can also be important for long term weight loss, especially fat loss. You obviously don't want to strive to put on significant muscle mass since that isn't very useful in the military, but you will want to put in a little bit of muscle mass if you haven't already for long term metabolic and fat loss benefits. Your resistance training program should be 3-4 days per week, each day being total body workouts (maybe a little lighter on the legs since you will be doing so much cardio). I'd recommend doing this workout each of the 3-4 days.

x = 1 set
Each Set is 20+ reps
3x Pushups Wide Stance
3x Narrow Pushups
3x Tricep Bench Dips
3x Pullups and Chinups (if you have a bar)
3x Situps
3x Crunches & Twisting Crunches
3x Hip Bridges
3x Quadripeds
3x Mountain Climbers
3x Bodyweight Squats
3x Wide Squats
3x Jumping Jacks
2x Bodyweight Lunges
2x Planks (hold for 20+ seconds)

Your overall workout should look something like this:

Monday:        45 Minute Run
Tuesday:       30 Minutes Elliptical + Resistance Training Workout
Wednesday:  Resistance Training Workout
Thursday:      60 Minute Run
Friday:           45 Minute Exercise Bike + Resistance Workout
Saturday:       45 Minutes Elliptical + 15 Minutes Stairmaster
Sunday:         Rest




As you can see, it is not an easy workout regimen but I guarantee it will help you get in shape for the military and you will start losing some serious weight. You don't have to do the workout exactly as written and you may need to work your way up to some of the times and exercises, but just work hard and do your best. I hope this help and I wish you the best of luck, thank you again for serving your country!


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