Causes Fitness - Royal Marines

Forces fitness, it's A Frame of mind, the official saying of the Royal Marines but around camp you may here "Train Difficult, Fight Easy". I'll give you an insight of one day in the Royal Marines that you have to complete before even getting to Lympstone. This is to check your mental aptitude, physical stamina and finally the primary quality of indefatigability. Forces fitness at its best.

Upward at the crack of Dawn and a nice cold shower to start out the day with a footwear of an instructor up your arse to make you motor and get outside dressed ready to march to scran ( that is food by the way ).

They tell you to eat however, you don't feel like it because of nerves so you force it down anyhow, then back to the block to give it a good scrub and check yourself over ready for inspection. If you or the block isn't up to standard ( which you never are ) then get down and kiss the floor because your doing press ups and also you do at there pace with each other. After the cleaning and beasting for being average muster outside for some real physical tests.

Makes fitness starts with the kilometer and Train Like a Royal Marine a half squad run at a pretty easy pace to get you warmed up, then your off on your own for the 1 ) 5 miles in under 10 mins or your best effort and child do they want to see it. After everyone has completed its a short jog back to the camp ready for the swim. Right after doing press ups in the changing rooms for being to loud and slow we went down to the pool. In groups of 6 we swam a full length out then back 1/4 of the right way to tread water for 2 mins before swimming back and pulling ourself out of the pool. 2 minutes can feel quite a long time but if you keep relaxed then you'll be fine. I was amazed at how many people struggled with this and were dragged out of the water by the hoop.

More lectures followed after the swim then we hit the fitness center, a Bleep Test to begin after a brief warm up where you experienced to achieve level 12 upwards, 60 press episodes in 2 mins striking your partners fist with your chest along with your back again straight, 60 sit ups in 2 mins with your finger tips on the side of your head touching your knees with your elbows and 6 pull episodes done to the instructor informing you when to bend and stretch. All this was completed with a few extra press ups and shuttle runs for not being quick enough and not listening to orders, if one person dirt up you all get it.

After the fitness center it was time for some well deserved lunch time and boy are you hungry. After feeding yourself up you possessed a couple more lectures where your trying to keep yourself awake then down to the bottom field that so many people dreaded on camp and why? We were about to find out.

It started pretty relaxed, the instructors fooling and showing us how to attack the assault course and heck how we were with levels and ropes, chances are they hit us first a complete duration around the assault course as a team, then as individuals, after finishing it the second time I was blown out there but we hadn't finished. I was beasted up and down this hill crawling in the mud doing burpees, press ups something they could think of to push us to destruction, they called it last man standing, now I knew what the bottom field was, after a good 30mins of this almost all of us could scarcely walk they stopped and we jogged back to a shower block to get our overalls off and shower ahead of the ultimate lecture and find away our fate if we made it or not.