• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

24MAY2021 Pilot/NFO Board

villo0692

villo0692

Well-Known Member
GodSpeed1997 said:
Unfortunately I’m a hard gainer and I need to get a mass gainer soon
Click to expand...
work on strength...this is the way I see it....for instance, try to increase your squat to a 1.5-2x your bodyweight, bench 1.5xbw, overhead strict press 1xbw and weighted pullups with 0.5xbw attached....if you get to those levels of strength you'll look like a Greek god...like, no way you're that strong and are still skinny. Also, I know we all running a lot for the PRT, but don't go crazy with the miles.....I'd say don't run more than 15-20 miles a week if you wanna make sure you keep getting stronger
 
GodSpeed1997

GodSpeed1997

Well-Known Member
villo0692 said:
work on strength...this is the way I see it....for instance, try to increase your squat to a 1.5-2x your bodyweight, bench 1.5xbw, overhead strict press 1xbw and weighted pullups with 0.5xbw attached....if you get to those levels of strength you'll look like a Greek god...like, no way you're that strong and are still skinny. Also, I know we all running a lot for the PRT, but don't go crazy with the miles.....I'd say don't run more than 15-20 miles a week if you wanna make sure you keep getting stronger
Click to expand...
Will try this ASAP. Thanks for the advice. And just gotta eat a shit ton too which is my issue
 
R

Recession

Active Member
GodSpeed1997 said:
Will try this ASAP. Thanks for the advice. And just gotta eat a shit ton too which is my issue
Click to expand...
This is going to be a bit of all of my advice that I've gathered over the past 5-6 months since I started getting into shape. Regarding building up to the PRT, I personally lifted 5-6 times weekly for 3 months on a push/pull/legs split and saw good results on my lifts, but those results failed to translate as effectively into any bodyweight exercise as much as I'd hoped. If you are into lifting, I'd still recommend half of your exercises be bodyweight focused. Good ways to do this are PT pyramids, PT supersets, and PT max rep set workouts which you can find more about here Military Workout: Classic PT Week for PT Tests | Military.com (not rickrolling I promise).

As far as nutrition goes, the first priority is to eat the right foods. Nutrition is complicated and everyone I meet has varying opinions, but a good rule of thumb is to eat more real foods, stay away from processed food, read nutrition labels, and cut back on junk food and alcohol. Regarding amount and frequency, eat a bit more than usual at each meal, and have a snack roughly every 2 hours. Protein shakes/bars are going to be your friend, some good supplements include creatine, multivitamins, amino acids, and collagen.
 
GodSpeed1997

GodSpeed1997

Well-Known Member
Recession said:
This is going to be a bit of all of my advice that I've gathered over the past 5-6 months since I started getting into shape. Regarding building up to the PRT, I personally lifted 5-6 times weekly for 3 months on a push/pull/legs split and saw good results on my lifts, but those results failed to translate as effectively into any bodyweight exercise as much as I'd hoped. If you are into lifting, I'd still recommend half of your exercises be bodyweight focused. Good ways to do this are PT pyramids, PT supersets, and PT max rep set workouts which you can find more about here Military Workout: Classic PT Week for PT Tests | Military.com (not rickrolling I promise).

As far as nutrition goes, the first priority is to eat the right foods. Nutrition is complicated and everyone I meet has varying opinions, but a good rule of thumb is to eat more real foods, stay away from processed food, read nutrition labels, and cut back on junk food and alcohol. Regarding amount and frequency, eat a bit more than usual at each meal, and have a snack roughly every 2 hours. Protein shakes/bars are going to be your friend, some good supplements include creatine, multivitamins, amino acids, and collagen.
Click to expand...
This was really helpful because I’m struggling with the same thing currently. While I’ve been lifting regularly, I haven’t been doing as much body weight exercises and like you said they failed to translate as effectively into bodyweight exercises. Going to try and cut back on lifting and focus more on body weight exercises. Thanks a ton ??
 
S

Stephen0692

Well-Known Member
Anybody else been rolled multiple boards without getting looked at? Been at it since September, and even now that I'm on this list I halfway expect my recruiter to call me and say it's gonna be another couple months till the next board haha
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top